He has a crisis and has no commitments. She wants to find out who she is in life, but can't commit to who she really is and hides behind a character in a book, Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter. In hiding she is unable to commit to finding herself and lives her life through someone else. Marcia explains that Olive has difficulty with decisions. Olive is confident and close to her family, but also does things on her own. She wants to let a guy get close to her, but is afraid to let anyone in and wants a close relationship. Marcia says that once she has the ability to make commitments, Olive will achieve identity and overcome her identity crisis. Status then changed to identity achievement. This is described when his identity crisis problem is resolved. Olive has struggled emotionally and matured on her journey to find who she truly is. Marcia describes it as a crisis that leads to commitment. When Olive decided to pretend to sleep with a large number of her peers and when she began sewing the letter "A" onto all of her clothes, she was facing a crisis. She was going through commitment when she noticed what she was doing was wrong and apologized to her best friend and was honest with the guy she was doing.