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J. Alfred Prufrock also engaged in the same actions. He also questions, rationalizes and procrastinates, but in a slightly different order. Prufrock questions, procrastinates, then rationalizes. Prufrock questions his whole existence as well as the people at the party. Prufrock fears that the people at the party will not accept him. Prufrock procrastinates because he fears rejection and is not confident enough to speak out. He sees the people as shallow, "Known them already, known them all" (Eliot 49). The phrase "In the room where the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo" (Eliot 13,14), describes how Prufrock sees the women as having a bit of intelligence, but lack depth. He also procrastinates because he fears that the partygoers will gossip about him:
They will say: "How his hair is growing thin!"
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly on my chin,
My necktie and modest, but asserted by a simple pin-
They will say, "But how his arms and legs are thin!" (Eliot 41-
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The Analysis on Prufock
The Analysis on Prufock. ... Prufrock compares himself to Hamlet. Hamlet, like Prufrock, is indecisive and anxious about future consequences. ... (393 2
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He wants to say what he is feeling, but he is afraid no one will understand him. Although he wishes he could speak he cannot bring himself to say it aloud. Prufrock makes the decision to delay and conform his behavior and settle for the shallow life. He makes the ultimate decision to procrastinate. He realizes he will never speak out and live a life of "toast and tea" (Eliot 34). Prufrock does not want to try, as noticed in this passage:
No, I am not prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
When he is fit and seasoned for his passage
My necktie and modest, but asserted by a simple pin-
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