Throughout life people have to make many choices, they have to pick one path over another. In his poem “The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost uses the symbol of the road to show the importance of breaking away from social norms. He uses the two roads to show the paths that society often pushes at people. One is following where others have gone before, the other is to take your own road, where fewer people have gone. In the beginning of the poem Frost writes “And having perhaps the better claim, /Because it was grassy and wanted wear” (lines 7 & 8). This quote Frost discusses the appeal to following a path that is not necessarily supported by society. He says that the road had “the better claim” (7) because less people have walked that way. In
