The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Prufrock

  1. Reread the simile in lines 2-3. How does this simile reveal that the speaker’s mind or will is paralyzed?
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I think the simile speaks to the speaker's inability to converse with women. He relationships with women are like a "patient etherized": he feels stuck and immobile.

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