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J. Alfred Pruflock The character of J. Alfred Pruflock is a withdrawn, middle-aged man who is perhaps going through a mid-life crisis and is examining the mistakes he has made in his life. He is a lover, but at the same time, he is afraid of declaring his love to someone. He is also very worried about many attributes of himself including his aging appearance and what other people think about his appearance. There is an example of this in line 40-41 when he says, “With a bald spot in the middle of my hair—(They will say: ‘How his hair is growing thin!’)”. There is in addition, another example in which he imagines the grim reaper laughing at his bald spot and how horrifying that would be. He also attempts to make himself young again by rolling his trousers and wearing a hair style that young people wore at that time, but he realizes it was of no use because he is growing old and there is no changing it. He watches the beautiful young women at the party and he imagines himself attempting to converse and tell a particular woman of his love for her. In his dream, he tells his love how he feels and for some reason, she is incapable of understanding what he is saying. Prufrock also starts to rehearse a speech he will