What’s His Problem?

I believe J. Alfred Prufrock's problem is that he is aging and growing old, and he is thinking out all these insecurities he has at social functions. The women that speak of Michelangelo are those who he only associated himself with - perhaps, the high class women. But since he is aging, he is falling out of their circle and failing to meet their elitist standards. He is very vain and perhaps he used to be a good looking fellow, but now, failing to meet his friends' standards. He is about to join one of their social functions again the smell and such are reminiscent of his younger days. He is a very self conscious fellow, and sometimes he wished that he was just something so low that it's unnoticeable - maybe from the start he never wanted to be a part of these social functions anyway.