egs are thin!]This example shows Prufrocks insecurity, and shows us that he is worried about what other people think of his physical appearance. Someone who suffers from anxiety and insecurity, such as Eliot, becomes attached to their physical elements. This is because they believe that sartorial property, or any type of concrete object, can give them esurience. Prufrocks insecurity is also shown when he is worrying about looking like an old fool. He says:I grow oldI grow oldI shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach?This quote helps prove that, he worries about aging. When we begin to age, we tend to shrink and loose our hair, loosing our physical traits that we are used to. Prufrock wants to wear cuffs on his pants due to the belief that in those days they were the most fashionable attires. Prufrock wants to wear them in order to hide the signs of aging: by placing cuffs on his pants he will therefore make them shorter. Prufrocks insecurity causes him to question himself and have doubts about his appearance. He does not know if he should part his hair back to hide his bald spot, or if he should eat a peach? Peaches are known to be messy when eaten. Because of risks, Prufrock becomes uncertain about doing such things as these. These thoughts could be similar to Eliots own thoughts at the same period in his life.. Prufrock a poem about lack of love, has a lead to protagonist who becomes very desperate for love through out the poem. Eliot becomes very romantic throughout Prufrock. Through out the poem, Eliots style of writing is in reaction to events in his life. He becomes romantic because his romantic life with his wife had become very unhappy, and in his poem, Prufrock, is where his love tensions are released This can be shown when Prufrock says things that reflect his emotions that deal with sexual anxiety, Time for you and time for me(line 31). This is a sexual connotation regar...
