Gender Identity And The Crisis Of Masculinity In T.s. Eliot’s “the Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock”

This paper vindicates that Prufrock’s misogyny is inextricably interlinked with his homosexuality and the crisis of his masculinity. His journey is not in search for romantic love; it is a quest for gender identity especially that he inhabits a world where patriarchy is on the wane. The overwhelming question in “The Love Song” is “Who Am I?”