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This 5 page paper answers questions about three short stories: “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather; “The Child by Tiger” by Thomas Wolfe; and “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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it all in a very few pages. This paper considers three short stories: "Pauls Case," "A Jury of Her Peers," and "The Child by Tiger" and answers questions about them.
Discussion "Pauls Case" by Willa Cather is the story of a teenage boy who simply does not fit in society. The question under consideration is what the
implications of the title are, and how the last line of the story might change a readers focus of vision. The story is subtitled "A Study of Temperament," and
we can take a clue from that, from the word "case," and from this description of Paul, which comes very early in the story: "His eyes were remarkable for a
certain hysterical brilliancy ... The pupils were abnormally large, as though he were addicted to belladonna, but there was a glassy glitter about them which that drug does not produce"
(Cather, 2007). The word "case" carries with it the suggestion of a medical procedure or observation; in this case, because of Pauls peculiar behavior, he seems to be perhaps a
subject of a psychological study. This impression is also borne out by the fact that Cather describes his behavior in detail, from the way his eyes move continually to the
fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a paragraph at the blackboard, his English teacher had stepped to his side
and attempted to guide his hand. Paul had started back with a shudder and thrust his hands violently behind him" (Cather, 2007). This is a young man who is extremely
uncomfortable in his own skin. The last line of the story is: "Then, because the picture-making mechanism was crushed, the disturbing visions flashed into black, and Paul dropped back into
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