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J. Alfred Prufrock is a man that longs for love and dreams of a relationship; however, he is unable to separate from his life alone due to the glooming fear of rejection. Because of this T.S. Elliot portrays Prufrock as a somewhat shy character who hides behind his fears instead of confronting them.
Prufrock is not unlike many people in society today. Thousands hide behind the fear of rejection, and are constantly asking themselves the question, “did I do something wrong?” This brings about many different things. One being the obvious low self esteem. Prufrock displays this trait with his ability to always point out the negative things and to always look back on to failure. Instead of being optimistic about life, which most should be, Prufrock throughout the poem proves to be quite pessimistic.
T.S Elliot portrays Prufrock as a man that would much rather live his life accordingly with not accolades no honors just merely to live. This is most apparent when Prufrock say that he......

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