How does dramatic monologue reveal Prufrocks character in “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock”?
Dramatic Monologue is simply a literary device in which a character speaks his/her thoughts, feelings, likes/dislikes or motives to an uncertain audience (the reader, god, a stranger on a bus). Similar to a soliloquy (which is addressed to the speak himself but which the audience is privy); it is often a stream of consciousness and mere random thoughts in which in turn reveal his character. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a difficult poem to interrupt with any great accuracy due to the fact that we the reader are never certain what is real and what is symbolic. What we can ascertain through his dramatic monologue is that Prufrock is an aging man, maybe middle aged or slightly past; his hair it thinning, his arms and legs are thinning, he worried about his teeth falling out and he’s contemplating confronting someone with a truth or a proposition (maybe a female he has feeling for) and this has him preoccupied throughout the entire poem this is his “overwhelming question” that he
