Eliot's Views Of Sexuality As Revealed In The Behavior Of Prufrock And Sweeney

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than his own. "To prepare a face to meet
the faces that you meet." He has always done what he was socially supposed
to do, instead of yielding to his own natural feelings. He wrestles with
his desires to change his world and with his fear of their rejection. He
imagines how foolish he would feel if he were to make his proposal only to
discover that the woman had never thought of him as a possible lover; he
imagines her brisk, cruel response; "That is not what I meant, at all."
He imagines that she will want his head on a platter and they did
with the prophet John the Baptist. He also fears the ridicule and
snickers of other men when she rejects him.
Prufrock imagines "And would it have been worth it, after all," and
if she did not reject him it would bring him back to life and he could say
"I am Lazarus, come from the dead."
Prufrock decides that he lacks the will to make his declaration. "I
am not Prince Hamlet," he says; he will not, like Shakespeare's character,
attempt ...

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