The road of trials describes a series of tests that examines the characters’ reactions and strengths in situations such as emotional turmoil. For example, Prufrock faces internal conflict considering the worth of the drastic change he must undergo. As a socialite, he lives a luxurious lifestyle full of wealthy women who spend their time “talking of Michelangelo”. Michelangelo sculptures and paintings considered exquisite attract the attention of the past lovers of Prufrock. Therefore, the women test his ability to give up the hedonistic life in order to invest his time in one woman. However, Prufrock question his actions by asking if he shall “wear [his] trousers rolled… and walk upon the beach” (Eliot 121-123). His rhetoric question reveals his…show more content… In addition, Prufrock uses the yellow fog to measure out the time in the world, “lingering upon the pools that that stand in drains” (Eliot 18). As the fog travels around the city, filling every crevice and surface of the city, the narrator utilizes it to measure out the time he has to ponder over his conflicted thoughts. His use of the fog symbolizes his stubbornness by creating excuses to astray him from taking initiative. Furthermore, the fog falls under the category of nature, Prufrock relating it to the natures of love. Eliot uses the metaphor to symbolize the essential emotions of a person that are uncontrollable such as how fog collects and rain that drenches the city. Moreover, the woman in “Mirror” looks into the mirror to the point where it may be “apart of [her] heart” (Plath 8). Her apparent attachment to an inanimate object exposes her emotional sufferance. She visits the commodity often to meet her subconscious who helps her deconstruct herself down to her depression about her youth disappearing into the depths of the past. Additionally, the author writes how “faces and darkness separate us over and over” (Plath
