A Comparative Analysis Of Paul's Father And Son

Paul’s thoughts are mostly influenced by the people where he he works, Carnegie Hall. A theatre hall full of rich people with lavish lifestyles. The author mentions, “ what he wanted was to see, to be in the atmosphere, float on the wave of it, to be be carried out, blue league after league, away from everything.” Paul wanted to escape his poor reality and live in the luxuries of Carnegie Hall. Paul alienates himself by being too caught up in his life at Carnegie Hall, that he views himself as superior to the people at his school but the is alienated at Carnegie Hall because the rich people there view him as an

First of all, Paul’s parents have an immense part in creating the way in which Paul thinks about himself throughout the novel. For example in page 94, Bloor quotes, “Mom , you ruined my life at Lake Windsor Middle when you turned in that IEP.” This simple quote thoroughly proves that the act that Paul’s mom performed affected Paul

Before committing suicide, it occurs to Paul that “all the flowers he had seen in the glass cases that first night must have gone the same way, long before this. It was only one splendid breath they had, in spite of their brave mockery at the winter outside the glass, and it was a losing game in the end, it seemed, this revolt against the homilies by which the world is run”(Cather 2). Paul, like the flowers, attempted to go somewhere he thought he would belong but is unable to fit in in this place and as a result ends his life. Before his journey to New York, Paul knew he didn’t belong on Cordelia Street but was able to get pleasure from imagining his life in New York. It is only after Paul goes to live this imaginary reality and realizes he does not fit in there either that this fear of rejection comes true. Furthermore, this demonstrates how Paul’s trip to New York is the cause of Paul’s depression worsening and his eventual suicide.

Also, if his parents hadn’t led to Paul he wouldn’t have hated his brother and been afraid of him for so long. In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor Paul has made many life changing choices. He made some huige decisions but he also made very small

By the end of the story, we know a number of reasons for his action: the death of his mother, his desire to connect with the upper class, his unrealistic love for the fine art, his homosexual trends, his separation from the world, and his incredible thirst for money. Paul was very self-centered and vain. He only cared for himself and not how his actions would affect others.

He takes his obsession of proving to his peers how special he is by showing them “autographed pictures of all the members of the stock company…telling them of his familiarity with these people” (Cather 219). However, in actuality, his contact and similarities with the actors of Carnegie Hall is minimal, and he remains an outsider. He is removed from the actual life of these people, but feels he is engaged in it. By thinking of himself extraordinarily, but having no aspirations, Paul becomes “the adolescent longing for something-anything-different. Defiantly unproductive, he fails to “develop” himself” (Herring). Paul ignores his lack of talents and focuses his sense of superiority above the population of Pittsburgh to his interpersonal relations with the actors at Carnegie Hall in New York City. While Paul may have no talent, or desire for talent, he continues to exhibit his egocentrism behind a cover of arrogance and lack of empathy.

the love and care he unknowingly needs. Paul takes on roles that disguise his own traits and turns him into what he believes to be a person nobody can say no to. When he takes on these roles, he

Before Paul was in the war, his obsession and passion was reading books. Throughout the book, the books remain to be Paul’s main hobby, he is unable to sit down and experience that happiness, taking a toll on his happiness. As Paul thinks about his childhood in comparison to what the front line has shown, Paul states “I want to to feel the same powerful,

He is too trusting because he thinks that he is equal to his white brothers, and that they will never betray him. Paul thinks this because he lives a sheltered life under his parents. They keep him from experiencing the outside world by treating him fairly and letting him share things with his half-white family. Mr. Logan, Paul’s father, understands that he has to prepare Paul for the life that he will live of the plantation, so he starts to hold Paul accountable for actions that white people will not tolerate. Also, Paul is naive because he thinks that he will stay on his father’s plantation forever. For example, Paul says, “In the many times we had hunted together since he had said that, I had not yet figured out the answer. There was, as I saw it then, no reason to leave.” Since he does not know what life is like off the plantation, Paul never dreams of a future with his own land, and thus he sees no reason to leave his father’s property. Paul thinks this because he has yet to see how much opportunity there is for him in the world. He also dismisses the fact that his family will not be living or on the plantation forever, and this causes him not to aspire to make a better life for

Paul's father had abused him emotionally, and probably physically, throughout Paul's life. He did so much to Paul's flagging self-image that he had to boast to others to make himself feel big, when he felt tiny inside. When he finally achieved that "bigness" that he always wanted, the glamour of "the good life," his father found him out and took that away from him, or rather, made Paul give it up. This made Paul feel even smaller and made him feel that he would be better off dead. So Paul decided to make his life "better off" and

In "Paul's Case," Willa Cather manages to apply the emotions, feelings, troubles, and thoughts of modern society, allowing the reader to relate to the story. By incorporating the same heavy burdens that bother and aggravate people in their daily lives, Willa explores the pain and treatment unwanted people experience. Obviously, nobody wants to feel rejection or alienation from the world, but instead they desire to encounter acceptance and agreement with the world's standards. In the story, the main character, Paul goes through excruciating transformations and lengths to try and impress the people around him. Attempting to belong in a superficial society, Paul loses a part of his identity without acknowledging it and therefore he

When Paul describes his home, which is located on a “highly respectable street,” he is still disgusted with the uniformity of all the houses on the street; not one house is unique (Cather 375). Inside his standard home, he is particularly displeased with “its horrible yellow wall-paper, the creaking bureau with greasy plush collar-box, and over his painted wooden bed the pictures of George Washington and John Calvin and the framed motto, ‘Feed my Lambs’” (Cather 375). Paul uses only negative words to describe his house that a lot of people would have appreciated during that time period; he does not have anything he particularly likes about his house. According to critic David Carpenter, the way “that Cather puts these pictures on Paul’s walls to emphasize that uncreative, superficial, and life-destroying values perpetuated in the homes of Pittsburgh are essentially American values” (Hicks 1). Carpenter means Cather specifically put descriptions of those pictures on Paul’s wall because it accentuates how truly unoriginal, fake, and uniform Paul’s house is, at least through Paul’s eyes. He is so appalled with living such an ordinary life, living in an ordinary house, and gives insight to why he is jealous of the people who have the more lavish things in

The families both find themselves in situations where their financial situations fail to support their lofty views of themselves and their position. For Paul, his family repeatedly sought money as there was “…not nearly enough for

Paul was a young man. He was getting a teacher’s education. He was a good student and a wonderful sportsman. He lived with his mother, Mrs Burgess, in Belfast. She was quite unsociable and reserved. The first five years of his life Paul had spent in the North of England. He had very good relations with his father, Rees; they loved to spend time together. Later his family moved to Wortley. When they lived there, his father died because of a railway accident. Soon after

Paul’s relationship with his father has caused a great repercussion on the decisions in his life because of the lack of relationship they have with each other and the effect of the death of