In 'The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock', what kind of person is J. Alfred Prufrock?

In
TS Eliot's poem, "," it is the indecisive nature of the, Prufrock himself, which takes
center stage. Prufrock is the speaker in the poem, which is primarily a lengthy meditation on
the "overwhelming question" of whether he actually dares to take any steps to change
the situation in which he finds himself. We know that Prufrock is not a young man: on the
contrary, he tells us that he is growing old, and dresses himself in the manner of an older man.
He has a deep and abiding sense of his own unworthiness, and does not feel he is even fit to
play the protagonist in the story of his own life. On the contrary, he believes that he is more
an "attendant lord" than a hero, and that any attempts to change that would be at risk
of disturbing "the universe." That is, Prufrock seems to believe that he was designed
and characterized as an indecisive and timid person who should not "dare" take
anything for himself, and that this is simply the...