“The Love Song of J. Alfred Pr

There have been many different themes in that of American and European literature. Some themes display a sort of romantic side of society and other themes display dark disillusionment of it all. Existentialism is a common theme among post war writers in which they display a character’s scorn of society and their realization of its downfall. These characters will also, usually, question life’s importance. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” by T.…

…no hope for mankind. The main difference is that Prufrock decides to conform to everyday life while Nick refuses to or cannot return to the banal scene. The existential character believes life to be futile, a movie. He is a man who cannot live in the comfortable, insulated world of the common man, accepting what he sees and touches as reality. “He sees too deep and too much,” and what he see is essentially chaos.