The speaker refers to a room where “women come and go / speaking of Michelangelo” (13-14), which makes a clear allusion to the artist Michelangelo. The women talk about him to sound knowledgeable, as he was a renowned Renaissance artist, leaving little attention to anything or anyone else around them. This would include Prufrock, who alluded to Michelangelo to demonstrate that women's attention was drawn to talking about the artist while his attention was focused on other things, which made him an outcast in conversations. This idea is reinforced in the third stanza where yellow smog and fog are used as a metaphor for a cat. The wording used indicates that "the yellow fog rubs its back" (15) and "the yellow smog rubs its face" (16) against the window panes. The metaphorical cat is outside the room previously mentioned in the poem where “women come and go” (13) and watches them through the windows, unable to find a passage into the room. The cat is the representation of how Prufrock feels he doesn't belong in the room with the women, such that he just stays outside and eventually simply falls asleep while still outside, as if accepting his predicament.