"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The End of Something" contain some similarities between them. Both characters "see too much and see too deep" (Henri Barbusse, HelI). This means that the character perceives life in a different fashion from that of the masses. They have also seen more than th

There are some similarities as well as some differences in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T.S. Eliot, and "The End of Something," by Ernest Hemingway. The similarities include that of the character's realizing the decline of Western civilization and both believe there is 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.

There are also some differences between that of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The End of Something." The character in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" portrays a very different attitude towards what he has learned as compared to the character Nick in "The End

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