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Who Is The Protagonist In A Paul Jones

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However, the protagonist doesn’t have hope or faith in herself as she fears of being rejected and alone for the school dance. A Paul Jones as a first dance took place and the protagonist was able to dance with a boy named Mason Williams. When dancing with Mason Williams she felt “keenly” as he exchanges looks with his friends and leaves the protagonist alone. “I accepted his position and mine, in the world of school” she is not trying to fight for herself but instead accepts the fact that she’ll be better off without him as he made his own decision in leaving her. When left alone she observed others during the dance as she “prayed” to be chosen, as a way of starting over. She is afraid of being left out because all the other girls were dancing with a partner and they don’t have an outstanding appearance. She sees others as way of downing herself an excuse to leave the …show more content…

The protagonist has been influenced by Mary Fortune to get away from the school dance to go have hot chocolate, instead she’s been asked by Raymon Bolting and choses to let go of her previous plan with Mary out of her site.This reveals she is confident with her decision making and let other influence interfere of what she has to decide. Raymon Bolting is her “rescuer” and has saved her from Mary Fortune’s “territory” and “into the ordinary world”. It’s important she realizes her own decisions is being used to help with her new fate she is developing by herself. She understands her “ mysterious and oppressive obligation” as she were to “fail it” her mother wouldn’t had known. Her mother is not told of what happened during the dance because she doesn't want her adulthood to be foreshadowed like her mother’s adulthood. Not everything can be decided by individuals and it’s only being responsible for the choices being

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