The Man Who Sat

This little story says book loads about the subject and self. It is a story about a man in a search for himself, who subjects himself to the law so she can be turned into a subject and thus create a self. However, it is not easy to just get a self. In order to define a self, social norms, culture and other people are needed, all which seem to be on the other side of the gate, but the countryman never crosses the gate in fear of the sentry. Thus, is he afraid of a sense of self or is he afraid of the law, or in a broader sense the community on the other side?
A part of him desires to go to the law but another park knows if he does he will become a subject to it. That is why I believe that he doesn’t cross the threshold, because a part of him doesn’t want to become a subject in the views of the Law and those on the other side. However, since he never crosses the other side and forgets about his previous life he dies without establishing anything for himself. He never establishes a real self because he never went to the other side. There is only one thing that he ever was in life, a subject to the sentry. He sitting outside the gate made him a subject to the sentry and as a result that became his self. I think that after a while he forgot about all else because that’s all he was and he never tried to be anything else wise. Thus, when he died he never did cross to the other side of that gate that was made just for him but he did have a sense of self and all it was is someone who sits and waits to be allowed to grant a full self.