During the late 19th and early 20th centuries the myth of Helen Keller as a holy beacon of love became common cultural currency. She was known as a miracle child who overcame her physical afflictions with indomitable courage and skill. Representations of her life and activities through contemporary newspapers, magazines, and journals within disability discourse elevate her to an iconic status as a flesh-and-blood human being. From early childhood he became the center of public attention and sympathy. She was called a saint, an idol, a miracle child. “The Story of My Life” first appeared in a series of installments in the Ladies Home Journal in 1902. In 1903 it was published as a book. This text was also an attempt to reconstruct that iconic identity. Identity is always a matter of representations and a continuous performance on such representations. My article will cover --1. What representational strategies did she undertake to reconstruct her image as a saint or miraculous child?2. This myth of Helen Keller made her public persona immensely popular. So my next concern will be: to what extent does the present text become a document of its public self? At the beginning of the text we learn that a terrible disease has torn out both her eyes and ears and thrown her entire being into a state of total abandonment. darkness. Anne Sullivan has come to save this semi-feral child. Throughout the text it is deliberately underlined that a blind deaf woman overcame her greatest difficulties in a beatific and electric way. It was a conscious effort on his part to make the reader understand how he eliminated his problems, rather than the problems themselves. It was emphasized in detail how much moral fiber she had to show to communicate... middle of paper... At the end of the text, she acknowledged her gratitude to them (perhaps to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleson Rodgers and his wife Abbie) who paid for her studies university. The text also becomes a tool for dealing with his public affairs. Then, using these representational strategies, the text becomes a potential space in which a culturally displaced girl creates her own iconic status and vehemently maintains that status to fit well into the culture. Works Cited1. Crow, Lisa. "Helen Keller: Rethinking the Problematic Icon". Disability and Vol. 15. October. 20102. Keller, Helen. The story of my life. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. 1903.3. Klages, M. Interview transcript. The real Helen Keller. Channel four television.1999.