How does dramatic monologue reveal Prufrocks character in "The love song of J Alfred Prufrock"?

Question

How does dramatic monologue reveal Prufrocks character in "The love song of J Alfred Prufrock"?

Answer 1

I'm too lazy to look stuff up right now, so I'm winging it from memory.  Unfortunately I won't be providing much in the way of actual passages from the poem to support my conclusions, so I'm afraid my answer will appear to be a "bit thin".

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The circumstances and emotional state of Prufrock is given primarily through metaphor and imagery.

"When the night is spread out across the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table"

(from memory; not sure if I have it right)  evinces a sense of alienation in a modern dystopian society.  Eliot's bizarre comparisons, IMHO, are meant to highlight Prufrock's (or "the individual's) lonelines, alienation, and inward isolation within the throngs of a large city's population.  It is also evident through such memorable passages as

"I measure my life out with coffee spoons"

Prufrock's character is revealed in his response to his situation.  He appears to have pretty much given up.  He seems to be living out his days with no real purpose, nor with any real desire to find one.  Or maybe there is desire, but the search for meaning is dismissed in his mind as futile.  He is physically comfortable -- or at least, he doesn't seem to be wanting for much, in terms of materiality -- but jaded.  He's not emotionally dead, but any ambition he had has died.

(Anyhow, this is what I seem to remember getting out of it.)