rled once about the house, and fell asleep" (22). Prufrock
             has already witnessed this dull event many times, saying: "I have
             measured out my life with coffee spoons" (51). The evening "sleeps so
             peacefully!" (75), cries Prufrock, and perhaps there is a tone of
             bitterness in his voice. All this shows, in Prufrock's case, the falsity
             of the elite social existence, which is thought by some to be the
             pinnacle of social involvement, and, in a broader context, what social
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