Paul's Case by Willa Cather
Willa Cather was born near Winchester, Virginia in 1873. At age ten,
she moved with her family to Nebraska where most of her stories were set. In
1913, she began an extensive writing career which included many short
stories and several novels. In her stories, she depicted the lives of prairie
farmers on the great plains. She glorified them over the city dwellers. In
1922, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours. She left behind a
heritage for the people she represented, and a living history of a period and
place in time.
This short story, "Paul's Case", was written around 1905 when Willa
Cather was living in Pittsburgh; it is the only one of her stories with that city
as a background. During her time there she taught in a high school and she
said the story was based on experience with two boys in her classes. It also
has connections to her own background of growing up in a small town in
Nebraska where she hungered for a broader life experience.
In "Paul's Case", by Willa Cather, Paul displays selfishness,
impatience, and, in the end, cowardice to live his life the way he sees as
ideal. Paul, a sensitive high school student, shows his selfish manner in order
to gain what he believes is a higher goal. Paul's father tries to display trust in
Paul by taking him from Carnegie Hall and the theater guild and placing him
in an occupation where he will someday be able to prosper. Paul does not see
in a light which would make him proud to accept his father's trust. In the
opposite, he thinks his father is taking him away from what he loves for pure
spite. Paul had no concern for his father's feelings or reputation when he took
the money from his employer. This fact ...
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...ng to do or what would occur if he did not when
he was walking towards the tracks and trying to sort the images he had seen
on his journey, because he was "unable to cope with vital matters near at
hand". He felt suicide was his one way ticket away from the trouble he would
meet with when his father arrived in New York. Once he had the sudden
realization that he had left so much undone, it was too late.
Willa Cather, the author of "Paul's Case", made Paul the most selfish,
impatient, and cowardly character ever seen in literature. People must wait on
what is due to them. Fortune and happiness do not come from wishing they
were there. They are attained through hard work and diligence. These are two
characteristics Paul did not possess. Maybe, it was better he had his moment
in the sun through ill gain, because he had no potential of actually earning it.
he sees his father as strict, but not overly demanding. He seems to begin to
Analysis of Paul's Case by Willa Cather. Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case” is a story about a young 16 year-old man, Paul, who is motherless and alienated. Paul’s lack of maternal care has led to his alienation. He searches for the aesthetics in life that he doesn’t get from his yellow wallpaper in his house and his detached, overpowering father figure in his life. Paul doesn’t have any interests in school and his only happiness is in working at Carnegie Hall and dreams of one day living the luxurious life in New York City.
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