The Importance of History in the Construction of Identity      It is clear that history cannot be overlooked for creating identity.Smith, in order to solve this struggle in her novel, touches upon the problem of root and culture in the migrant families" life who settle in a multiracial London. Carefully, she focuses on the significance of history in her novel, WT,  where she starts with engraving the so-called statue Washington museum "What is past is  a  prologue" (WT: iv).Despite  those  two  histories  being intertwined,  in  WT,  their  racial  history  is  essentially  mirrored  by  the  first  generation immigrants while the personal history and historical records are reflected by the immigrants of the second generation who  struggle to construct their personal identity and history.Smith, in WT, portrays a clash between individuals in their society as far as the first and second generation migrants in multi-ethnic Britain.Besides, those migrants attempt to connect with the societies in which they  do  not  share  their  standard  values  and  regional  beliefs  because  they  feel  they  are estranged and different.