Eliot's Views Of Sexuality As Revealed In The Behavior Of Prufrock And Sweeney
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" tells the story of a single
character, a timid, middle-aged man. Prufrock is talking or thinking to himself.
The epigraph, a dramatic speech taken from Dante's "Inferno," provides a key to
Prufrock's nature. Like Dante's character Prufrock is in "hell," in ....
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.... the saloons "known them all" and he presumes
how they classify him and he feels he deserves the classification, because he
has put on a face other than his own. "To prepare a face to meet the faces that
you meet." He has always done what he was socially supposed to do, instead of
yielding to his own natural feelings. He wrestles with his desires to change
his world and with his fear of their rejection. He imagines how foolish he
would feel if he were to make his proposal only to discover th ....
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