The first is how Prufrock longs to be a crab “Scuttling through the floor of silent seas” (73-74). Thinking this, Prufrock describes what his current life is like, a spectator who influences nothing or anyone. His human life is wasted for all the potential he had when he could have been a crab instead of doing the same thing, which would be a fair life for a crab. Similar to the crab metaphor, Prufrock also states how he will "put on white flannel pants and walk along the beach" (122). The white of his pants could signify the emptiness that white represents, while a beach is a boundary between land and ocean. The earth is the world to which he belonged in the past, while the sea is the place to which he now feels he belongs, becoming a silent crab sunk into the depths. It can be inferred that Prufrock intends to clear his head like the whiteness of his pants, and then walk the line between the warm life he has known and the cold sleep under the ocean. While Prufrock is in agony overthinking this decision, he decides the best course of action is to empty his thoughts and see what he has