In Kafka’s novel, his characters are always in the same scenario, trapped into a bizarre situation, don’t know a reason, can’t escape. In this story, before the law, a country man was trying to get into “the law” through a gate but cannot make it at the end of the story, also the end of his life. It seems a lot of challenge for the country man to get through the gate, but actually, the gate is wide open expect a gatekeeper stood in front of it. Country man believed that he was not supposed to get in unless he got the authorized. The gatekeeper had told him that, “If it tempts you so much, try going inside in spite of my prohibition.” However, what the country man did were cursing, begging, and trying to bribe. The country man spent his entire life to get to the law but not dare to enter the first gate. He was frightened by the power that he had no idea with. Only the thing he can learn was gatekeeper told him that “I cannot endure even one glimpse of the third”.

The law, in the real world, is supposed to be applied by everyone. But in the story, country man has to chase for it. So the law, in this story, does not necessary mean itself. It can stand for everything that supposed to share with everyone. But law always comes with authority, which the country man respected and feared. He could reach it but choose to give up and pretend he was pay effort. He looks pity for being denied by law but actually pathetic for doing nothing. Like people in the real world, struggling for life but afraid to change and take risk.