The meaning and message of “The Story of Rosendo Juàrez” by Borges

In the story, the main message that the reader perceives is that if you do not like who you are then you can change and shape yourself into a different person. Rosendo was involved in many knife fights and he did not like to see himself as a person who tries to pick fights with random people. Throughout the story Rosendo discovers more and more that he needs to change and he does this by moving to Uruguay to get out of his previous life and trying to change himself.