blog 10

                As I said in my previous blog, Prufrock is an intriguing character.  Eliot describes him as an older man who  has experienced a good deal of life's twists and turns.  Prufrock is a pale and frail individual filled with many self-doubts and insecurities that hinder his desires to achieve things, in this instance a woman.  He is afraid to face the women because he believes they will judge him strongly on his appearance.  But Prufrock is made out to be a person that is a day dreamer as he visualizes the many outcomes and what-if's that would have been if he had talked with one of them.  One lines 87 he says, "And would it have been worth it, after all,/After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,"  and again on line 99 with, "And would it have been worth it, after all,/would it have been worth while."  The desires are not fulfilled in the end as the heartbroken Prufrock sings his song of goodbye to the unattainable "Mermaids" on line 123.