How Did The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock's Life Change

Writers in the early centuries read into a person’s mind, body, and soul. The nineteenth and twentieth century centered around a change from rural areas to urban cities. People began to experience new opportunities with labor, technology, and legislative affirmations. The era of the Roaring Twenties was significant, in which it focused on urbanization. The growth of labor, science, and women’s rights was openly casted into society. Immigrants were constantly working and living their lives out with the money earned. People became distracted with these new inventions and their lives changed dramatically as people adapted. Because of this, writers would observe how these new aspects of life changed a human’s perspective. The writer’s movement …show more content…
Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot has connections about a man who is unsatisfied with life and along with his decisions to think rather than to act. T.S. Eliot introduces to the readers, Alfred Prufrock, whom from reading the text, we can infer that Prufrock has insecurities within himself and his life in general. One of the first signs that show insecurity through Prufrock is when he questions, “To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair — (They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”)” (585). Prufrock has plenty of time to do the important things he has planned, but he constantly second guesses his will. This portrays a scene that shows how he saw his loved one, but fiddled back and forth between the shop. In the end, he simply reverted and goes back downstairs. Prufrock gives an excuse that there will be time to remake that decision of seeing his loved one, but in all, he is simply just repeating his insecurities while time is being passed. Continuing on his daily life, Prufrock states that, “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall” (585). This excerpt from the poem shows how Prufrock uses spoons metaphorically to describe his decision-making. Simply, one would just use the coffee spoons and place it in the cup; and this would be compared to carelessly making decisions on impulse. But, in this reference, with …show more content…
This story takes place in the course of 74 years, and events occur out of order within flashbacks. Readers live in these memories that is torn apart between the present in the past. The story sets off with the death of Miss. Emily Grierson and how the town visited her through her house. Her house was exceptional with the attention that it received. Regular townspeople believed that the inside of her house was never showed to the public. The scene of the story is then changed into a time when she was alive again, and is the township is under a new council. “Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor—he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron—remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity.” (Faulkner) From this we excerpt, we can view that the story began with the death of Ms. Emily and then the time shifts earlier back, to when Colonel Sartoris was alive and pardoned her taxes. We also learned that her father is deceased. “They called a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen. A deputation waited upon her, knocked at the door through which no visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting lessons eight or ten years earlier.” (Faulkner) The author address that