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“Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather is not a story of an ordinary young man. Paul is a conflicted young man who struggles with the reality. He is a high school student and works as an usher at Carnegie Hall in Pittsburgh. Paul’s disrespect for his elders, greed for material objects and mental depression is responsible for his final predicament.
At the beginning of the story, Paul is called to the principal’s office for disorderly conduct and disrespectful attitude. After the teachers state their complaints one by one, Paul shrugs them off. They are unable to reach to Paul because he sees school as a waste of time. On top of that, Pau’s constant smiles irritate the teachers even more. His drawing-master said, “I don't really believe that smile of his comes altogether from insolence; there's something sort of haunted about it” (Bausch, R., & Cassill, R. V. (2015). Paul’s Case by Willa Cather). Paul does not directly disrespect his father but his actions contributes to it. His father asks him to stop waiting until the last minute to do his homework, but Paul gets expelled from the school instead. Paul’s father gets him a job at Denny & Carson’s where Paul ends up stealing three thousand dollars. His teachers and father want to put him in a path of honest and respect, but Paul chooses to ignore them and dream of living in luxury.
Paul was raised in a middle-class family but he thought of the modest lifestyle as dull and boring. He is fascinated by the luxury lifestyle led by the theater actors and actresses. Paul gets firsthand view of the lifestyle from working as an usher at Carnegie Hall. He ends up stealing three thousand dollars from Denny & Carson’s business and leaves for New York. Many people turn into drugs to fill the void of depression and loneliness. For Paul, an exciting and vibrant lifestyle was the adrenaline he needed to suppress his mental problems.
Paul’s mother died of a long illness when he was only few months old. He was raised by his father, a man who believes in hard and honest work. Even though Paul had a good support system from his teachers and father, he refused to accept their help. Paul thought their world is plain and boring, that’s why he was always looking for something more exciting. He is disconnected from the world and lives in his own reality. His father moves him away from the theater to a normal job at Denny & Carson’s, but he ends up stealing three thousand dollars. Paul longs for fancy living because it distracts him from facing him own demons. In the end, when he heard that his father is coming to pick him up from New York, he takes his own life instead of going back to the boring lifestyle.
Paul’s final predicament happened because he refused to accept help from outside and never considered fixing his own internal mental problems. Paul loved quick-fix his whole life, ranging from irritating teachers to get out of school, to stealing money to live a short luxurious lifestyle. When his back was against the wall, he took his last quick-fix by taking his out life.
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