In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Elliot the speaker Alfred is a very isolated and indecisive man. Through out his monologue he speaks of himself and the way the world is through his eyes. He embodies a man that is too intelligent to realize he is the one holding him back.

My view of Alfred is that he is an older man in his late fifties that has led a very passionless life. He lives in a city were there is yellow fog and smoke against the window-panes, a number of one-night cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants. Also there are narrow streets and smoke that rises from the pipes of the buildings. Alfred has a bald spot on the middle of his head and his legs and arms are very skinny. The baldness shows him aging and the scrawny body structure illustrates a...