Answer:
A. Some grief must be endured.
Explanation:
J. Alfred Prufrock guides a companion through the smoggy, startling lanes of present day London as he considers his "staggering inquiry" and stresses that he is coming up short on time "for a hundred indecisions."
Prufrock visits a gathering of modern ladies who "come and go / Talking of Michelangelo," yet he feels hesitant about his thin, thinning up top appearance. Exhausted at the possibility of taking part in social action, he wishes to pull back.
Prufrock winds up somewhere out in dreamland, pondering whether he should "force the moment to its crisis” or “squeeze the universe into a ball / To roll it toward some overwhelming question." However, he feels unfit to express the idea of either his emergency or his inquiry.
He thinks about himself as a side character in Shakespeare's Hamlet, an "attendant lord” or “Fool” who plays an insignificant part in life’s drama. As the poem ends, Prufrock imagines himself strolling down the beach, listening to “mermaids singing, each to each” but not to him. He dreams of lingering “in the chambers of the sea” until “human voices wake us and we drown.."
