A Journey

I don’t think Prufrock from the poem “The Love song of J Alfred Prufrock” experience a journey or quest that the hero starts in a happy state, is somehow forced to go through a difficult quest, experience some loss and gain and eventually returns back into happy state again. Prufrock seems to be stuck in the middle of the quest that he is undergoing a difficult quest of whether or not he should ask the question, which is probably asking a woman out. I can imagine that Prufrock is once a confident with high self-esteem that he from a relatively wealthy family who has afternoon tea session which other high social class member. Due to age, Prufrock seems to be extremely worried on how people will view his physical appearance and examine him like a bug specimen and nail him on the board. This aging process is seemly a quest for Prufrock that as a middle age man, he isn’t married yet. He is afraid to ask people out as he used to do when he is younger. He seems himself as relatively useless and is said that he is just like an observer in the story of Hamlet that he is not the hero.