I don’t know the context of this but: we must choose ourselves because if we are trying to be someone else our whole life then we won’t get very far and people won’t like us for ourselves.
Answer:
when an idea is being directly quoted.
Prufrock end it calling himself crab-like. When you get to the lines 120 to 131. the poems is already giving you some incredible and impossible ocean imagery. One that has the singing of mermaids and the sea-girls wearing seaweed. If the world is so isolating, being a crab in the middle of the described imagery is not that bad. And that is the point. The correct answer is:
D Prufrock wishes he were a crab living on the seafloor