What is Prufrock’s question in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? The question is does his female companion have romantic feelings for him like he feels for her. The writing seems to be a mixture of internal and external dialogue. The external dialogue is confident but the internal dialogue about his question is filled with doubt and hesitation. Eliot’s continued comments about time show Prufrock’s hesitation. He has Prufrock trying to reassure himself with comments like: “There will be time, there will be time”, “Time for you and time for me”, and “In a minute there is time”. (2524-25) But the more he hesitates the more he doubts himself. Eliot shows Prufrock’s self doubt with lines like “They will say: How his hair is growing thin” and “They will say: But how his arms and legs are thin.” (2525) Then towards the end of the story Eliot has Prufrock resigning to the fact that he does not know what to say. Eliot writes “No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be.” (2527) Prufrock continues down this path believing that he is “ridiculous and a fool.” (2527) The poem ends with Prufrock on a singular journey down the beach that ends in death, which leads one to believe that he did not find the words to ask the woman her feelings.
forum 2: I believe that the question that the Prufrock is asking himself in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is whether or not he is worthy to approach and speak with or even possibly ask out one of the women that he mentions “in the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo” (Eliot). Unfortunately he is too busy putting himself down and comparing himself to what he thinks people will think or say about him. It begins with statement of the women “talking of Michelangelo”, which the statue of David is a famous artwork of Michelangelo that many times represents the perfect specimen of a man. Prufrock seems to compare himself to what the women are viewing and starts to degrade himself, “with a bald spot in the middle of my hair, they will say: “How his hair is growing thin!” (Eliot). He sees himself under scrutiny before he is even in the situation, “and I have known the eyes already, known them all, the eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase” (Eliot). We can see through the poem that even though he doubts himself he still thinks about asking, “should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis” (Eliot). His disillusion of the mermaids is ended, just like his hope of asking the women, this is ended “till human voices wake us, and we drown” and so is his thought of asking the question (Eliot).

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