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A 4 page paper which analyzes the character of Paul in Willa Cather’s short story “Paul’s Case.” No additional sources cited.
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the people around him. He is something of a dandy, or something of a man who wants to be a dandy; immersed in a world of activity, brilliance, culture, and
class. The following paper analyzes his character. "Pauls Case" by Willa Cather Paul "was tall for his age and very thin, with high, cramped shoulders and a narrow
chest. His eyes were remarkable for a certain hysterical brilliancy, and he continually used them in a conscious, theatrical sort of way, peculiarly offensive in a boy" (Cather). His teachers
seem him as insolent, but yet where he works, as an usher at a theater, he is seen as friendly and ideal. He dreams of a bigger life, one that
is not involved in school and in his home where apparently his father is the sort to suddenly decide to violently approach him. The narrator tells the reader Pauls early
history as a teacher states, "I happen to know that he was born in Colorado, only a few months before his mother died out there of a long illness. There
is something wrong about the fellow" (Cather). And, as mentioned, his father was prone to strange violence as indicated in the following: "Then, again, suppose his father had come
down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had killed him? Then, again,
suppose a day should come when his father would remember that night, and wish there had been no warning cry to stay his hand?" (Cather). Paul is also a
liar. The narrator tells the reader that he is accustomed to lying and that he does not really see any problem with it. This sort of attitude, or characteristic, is
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