Prufrock Drowns in a Sea of Insecurity

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English

 

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George E

 

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October 27, 2013

 

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University

 

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These words, spoken to Dante, signify an important aspect of Eliot's poem--Prufrock's confused vacillation and neurotic ambiguity are entirely contained within his own mind, allowing them to occur without concern for the reaction of peers. Eliot chooses to emphasize the insecure nature of his character Prufrock throughout the text, exemplified in his self-questioning, "Do I dare?to turn back and ascend the stair, with a bald spot in the middle of my hair?they will say: ?How his hair is growing thin!'" This concern over social perception strengthens the importance of the introductory message: Prufrock is desperately afraid of being rejected, and if he thought that his nervous wonderings would be heard by "someone who would return to Earth", or could repeat them to others, he would abandon them completely and "remain without further movement;" but as no one has ever heard these thoughts, he can think them freely "with no fear of infamy...
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He and his yet unidentified company, presumably the love interest later addressed in the poem, go "through certain half deserted streets?that follow like a tedious argument with insidious intent," while recounting "restless nights in one-night cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells." The memories of oysters and nights spent together juxtapose the cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants in a way that sets the tone for the rest of the poem-- a reasonable desire and pursuit of happiness, with an inevitable realization of inadequacy...
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