This line is showing the reader that he goes on cheap dates with women that he, later on, most likely ends up sleeping with in “ one-night cheap hotels”. In this poem, Prufrock is controlled by his lust for women as he experiences the countless “ restless nights in one-night cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants with oyster shells (Elliot 6-7). This can be seen as our pleasures, our deepest desires and wants. The id is the part of our minds that have to deal with our impulsive and unconscious parts of our psyches. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality argues that human behavior is the result of the interactions among three component parts of the mind: the id, ego, and superego. Through this anxiety that he faces Prufrock is living in a hell that his own mind has created which is demonstrated through Freud’s idea of the id, the ego, and the superego. This anxiety that he deals with causes him to act the way he acts. As the story goes on the reader can tell that Prufrock is a man filled with anxiety. The reader goes along this journey with Prufrock as you find out about the life he lives and how he lives it. Prufrock wants to lead the reader to a question, setting up the tension as the poem goes on only to never ask this certain question. Alfred Prufrock at one time or other, which makes it very realistic. This is one of the most important poems of all time because almost everyone can identify with the insecurity of J. Alfred Prufrock makes the reader privy to his innermost thoughts on an evening out.
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