The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock was about a very timid man whom he is in the academic party or gathering and it might even suggest a high class brothel, because there seems to be a lot of women around as he keeps repeating the women coming and going talking of Michelangelo. Is sitting by himself observing the crowd, a women to be more pacific he wants to approach her but is too afraid of what people might think as in “ line 38-45 how they might talk about his hair thinning and how his legs are too thin even if he does have nice suit on. He is very unsure of himself and sees himself with no importance. Since he’s a timid man and is afraid of rejection and people’s opinion, in his mind he is safe from rejection and humiliations. He seen to be his owns biggest critic. In line 111-119 he even compares himself to Hamlet, which in many sense is someone he identifies with but differ and points out that he is not hamlet because he wont go through with his action and hamlet did.
Even in old age as the mermaids sing to each other, they wont sing to him because like everyone else they have ignored him.
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