The Road Not Taken: Depiction of Three Ages In his Explicator article, "Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'", William George suggests that the poem includes "three ages distinct” of the narrator and focuses on the choices this person must make at different stages of his life (230). George differentiates the poem's main speaker, what he calls the “middle-aged self,” from the younger and older versions elderly, emphasizing that the middle-aged version mocks the other two by taking a more objective stance toward his decision. The younger and older versions “are given to emotion, self-deception, and complacency, and both face a decision that the speaker of. middle-aged sees with more objective eyes than his younger and older selves” (230) George demonstrates that while the middle-aged self is able to see other selves objectively without illusion and self-aggrandizement, more middle-aged selves do so. young and older Elderly people are incapable of this type of objectivity in decision making. George's analysis is divided into two parts; the first part is an analysis of the relationship between the middle-aged self and the younger self, while the second part is an analysis of the relationship between the middle-aged self and the older self. In the first part of the article, George suggests that the younger self is faced with a choice between two paths, paths that the middle-aged self understands to be very similar; the younger self, however, refuses to accept their equal value and instead deludes himself that he has chosen a path less traveled (230-31). In the second part of the article, George describes how his older self is faced with the choice between telling the truth about his decision as a young man or lying about it; while the middle-aged self fully recognizes that the past choice wasn't great, the older self chooses to hide this truth through deception and self-aggrandizement. (231).