Sartre’s thoughts on the waiter were published in 1943, but today’s social psychologists are still interested in the notion that the self warps and morphs depending upon what it believes is expected of it. We have a self for work and a self for home, a self for lovely restaurants and a self for roadside diners; a self for Twitter and a self for Facebook; a self for the plumber and a self for the mayor; a morning self and an evening self, a Monday self and a Sunday self, a self of the business suit and a self of the dressing gown.
