The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

How does famous simile in lines 2-3 reveal that the speakers mind or will is paralyzed?

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The lines are:

When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;

This represents the speaker' feeing unable to find confidence or passion to make his life better, Like a patient etherized upon a table.