Please answer the following questions about Kafka’s short story “Before the Law”
• Why does the man from the country seek ”to gain entry into the law”? What do you think that means?
• Why does the man not enter?
• Does the man know that he cannot overcome the guard? That the guards further inside are even worse?
• In what way is the man’s sad fate meant to represent the sad lives that, perhaps, Kafka thought many people live in modern times?