The second objection was that Havel expected too much from his greengrocer. Havel imagined that, one day, his greengrocer would realize the weight of the responsibility he bore, remove his sign, and so begin the transformation of society. In the reality of communist Czechoslovakia in 1978 such a greengrocer would have been informed upon by his colleagues, neighbors, or some passerby, and punished in a way that would have encouraged conformity. The
