T. S. Eliot Prufrock Research Paper

The issue with appearances is that people constantly overlook and judge themselves, which creates a barrier of the reality and the mind. According to Güven, “Eliot implies that nobody shows his real face in this fragmented modern world, and that is the reason why Prufrock needs time to prepare a false face for himself” (Güven 82). Prufrock cannot help but place a barrier between the people and himself due to the pretentious nature of modern people. For example, Prufrock interrupts the poem by stating “In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo” (Line 13-14). He expresses how the the women participate in shallow talk that lacks any meaning that is relevant to him. One may notice that he constantly refers to that line when describing the women, which creates a fragment in the poem. Prufrock is not the only person who is having internal issues, but the women too. This reveals how Prufrock, with his stream of consciousness, feels anxious to communicate with others because of the …show more content…
Eliot’s works are not directly scrutinizing the appearances of Prufrock and Lil, but rather the character themselves are creating the illusion of it happening. This illusion that they manifests turns out to be a part of their anxiety, which then starts to break the world apart. When the two obsess about their appearances, they develop a barrier that causes them to be alone. This reflects how the fragments in the modern world is from the isolation of each person. When people think too much of ourselves, to the point of judging, they start to lose the connection of others. Without any connection, there is not way for people to have a healthy relationship with each other. Even more, they start losing a sense of reality. In this case, Prufrock and Lil are lost in their own world because they can no longer comprehend what is real or not. The fact that their anxiety causes them to think all over the place suggests that complication of