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Essay / Analysis of J. Alfred Prufrock's Love Song - 937
TS Eliot's Alfred Prufrock is the narrators hair. Hair is mentioned in three distinct parts of the story and its gradual changes irritate the narrator. “With a bald spot in the middle of my hair; (They will say, 'How fine her hair is getting!')” (Love Song by J. Alfred Prufrock, TS Eliot, lines 46 – 47). The Narrator is vainly interested in what people will think of his increasing baldness, not because he doesn't like it but because he doesn't like the idea of people making a big deal out of it. This perfectly represents the age of the narrator because most young people, before the age of 30, are easily embarrassed and focus more on external problems than internal ones. “But though I wept and fasted, I wept and prayed; Although I have seen my head (become slightly bald) brought on a platter” (Lovesong by J. Alfred Prufrock, TS Eliot, lines 86-88). The Narrator continues the trend of middle-age crisis by crying over his loss of attraction because not only does he feel that it is fading away and becoming a distant memory, but there is physical proof that all world can clearly see; that he is getting old. “I’m getting older… Should I part my hair at the back? ”, (Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, TS Eliot, lines 127 – 129). I find this little humorous side because for me it implies that the narrator no longer has hair on the top of his hair but only on the edges of his scalp. In my mind, when the Narrator describes the parting of his hair, it sounds like those old people with the long bald ponytails that you usually find at the