“To lead you to an overwhelming question,” the main question about who the character is, in the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” by TS Eliot who explains this in a dramatic monologue about a man who has difficulty making decisions and lacks self-confidence in trying to do so while trying to achieve his goals or dreams. After reading this poem, readers would look back and wonder what was his question that he was daring us not to ask? This poem fascinates readers with the character of Prufrock, a man who fails to achieve his own dreams because of his paranoid thoughts throughout his life; a man whose goals and aspirations he was referring to. At the very beginning, there is a passage, an epigraph from "Dante's Inferno", which tells part of this story where a soul in hell tells Dante the secrets of the underworld. Dante comes out of the Underworld and wants to share all his knowledge with the rest of the world, but has to keep it a secret because it's meant to be hidden. Who resembles the man in this poem who carries with him all his secrets, his thoughts and his life; the man who does not live ...