SOURCE: Ty, Eleanor. “A Filipino Prufrock in an Alien Land: Bienvenido Santos's The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 12, no. 3 (2001): 267-83.

In the following essay, Ty finds parallels in the characters of Solomon King in Santos's The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor and J. Alfred Prufrock from T. S. Eliot's “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

The bigger, brighter cities held him longer, New York, Washington D.C., Chicago. He thought it would be Washington to the very end until that day he came running to Chicago, where he had been earlier in his younger days. Fate must have spoken as it always did in his life. Chicago became home where the years came and went. Perhaps there would be time to return. Who could tell? All he knew now, the hour was late.

—The Man Who (Thought...