The story shows why I wasn't satisfied with 'catcher in the rye'. This is kind of story that should be made compulsory in schools - that is, for all parents and teachers.

Warning Signs Missed In 1905, when Willa Cather wrote “Paul’s Case”, parents, teachers, and even psychologists may not have readily recognized Paul as a child dealing with depression and sexual identity issues. His fastidious manner, obsession with art, but not as a participant, and his much greater obsession with money and its trapping, I believe shows signs of Paul’s depression and sexual identity issues. Although Paul comes from a lower middle class family, he does what he can to dress up the...

The more I thought about this after I read it, the better I liked it. That isn't a typical pattern for me, but I love when it happens.It's written in a very distant third-person voice. Nothing you learn about Paul comes from him. His actions are very, very guarded. When the plot takes the turn 2/3 of the way in, and Paul has actually gone and done something, and something entirely unexpected, it's surprisingly riveting. It's such a huge mistake, an he had my heart for it.This story gets read a l...

I had this book rated as five stars and remembered it as one of the few stories inflicted upon me in high school that I actually liked at the time rather than finding an affection for them later when they were no longer associated with the terror of English class. Sometimes there were extreme cases of that such as The Clan of the Cave Bear which I hated at the time, but that would later become favorites. Paul's Case worked out the opposite way.The story is of a boy who finds his middle class lif...

We had to read this this year in our 9th grade English class. As a person who loves to read, but hates the books and stories our high school forces us to read, I actually vaguely enjoyed Paul's case. The actual reading part was boring. Can something be boring and enjoyable at the same time? Well it can now! Although the actually reading process wasn't my favorite, I enjoyed breaking down the story itself. It actually interested me.The story was horrible. Now the story is boring, enjoyable, and h...

An inside look of a teenager's mind who is completely dissatisfied with his life. I think this is a perfect story showing how the mind of a depressed person works. Anyone who has ever asked the questions "Why did he do it? He had so much ahead of him?" should read this story.

I loved this story on a personal level. Very, very deep and can be applied to issues still ongoing today, sadly. 5/5 stars.

I've arranged my takeaway thoughts into a haiku:"Young with unformed dreams,The thought that you could get close,With effort, stays mute."

“It was a losing game in the end, it seemed, this revolt against the homilies by which the world is run.”

A good story but for anyone not familiar with Pittsburgh throwing in the Carnegie Hall and Cordelia Street to Pittsburgh and then moving the scene to New York City can be confusing. Most people are familiar with Carnegie Hall in New York and there is a Cordelia Street in the borough of Staten Island as well.

"There it was, what he wanted. (...) as the rain beat in his face, Paul wondered whether he were destined always to shiver in the black night outside looking at it."A girl made a presentation for this in my class. She managed to somehow not telling anything about homosexuality through the whole thing, in the end, she said "oh and I read on the internet that some think Paul may be gay but I don't see it."kdhfkslhgsgd

i find it difficult to rate short stories, as they are so short, but there was a lot of value worth discussing in this one.

*read for an lgbt literature gened*this short story was pretty good. i think the themes of escapism that it explored were interesting, but honestly not very much happened. i feel like this could be summed up in like three sentences because the story wasn’t very complex at all. but it was still an enjoyable read. although the ending was sad, i didn’t personally feel anything when i read it (probably because i already knew it was going to happen from our discussions in class, but also because i di...

im sorry but If you asked me to summarize what I just read, I would not be able to explain a single thing

In Willa Cather’s tragic short story, “Paul’s Case”, Paul’s desperate desire for a different life and his dissatisfaction with what has become his banal life cause internal conflict and emotional turmoil, which leads him to disconnect from reality, and puts him on a path toward self-destruction. “Paul’s Case” is used for a way of understanding people like Paul as it’s an explorative look into a young suicidal man, and people, in general, since he is representative of aspects of the human conditi...

This was a short story I had to read for college. It was pretty good. I enjoyed the overarching theme of this story. I was never bored, and that’s saying something for a school book. Overall, I liked it.

This piece is a powerful psychological delve into the mind of a young man who is on his way to complete madness, in no time. The main character, Paul, and the settings are described so fluidly, the reader can almost smell the bad food that he loathes. Paul believes he is born into the wrong class, and holds such disdain for his own family and neighbors that he can hardly stand to be around them. The story is symbolic. I felt compelled to read it more than once, even twice, and I still hope for a...

Beautiful and sad. Paul was right, luxuriating in a grand New York hotel feels good. He stayed in the Waldorf. I recently had a $12 cappuccino at the Plaza. For 20 minutes, I was someone else. I did not follow that up with a trip to train tracks in New Jersey. Kudos to the high school English teacher who assigned that story to me way back when; I wish I remember who she was so I could give credit. Here's a sign of the times or a sign of how clueless I was in high school: reading now about a teen...

Paul's Case is a short story and probably not as famous as some of Willa Cather's other writings, but it stuck out to me because I could understand the character and his rebellious nature against the society that was trying to force him do things that would make him become something that he despised. His teachers, as well as his father, wanted him to act “normal” and their versions of normal would have turned him into a man that grew up, married, had kids, and worked for the rest of his life, ne...

A teenage boy, having problems at school, more in love with the theatre than studying, enamored with high society and wealth. But his family is not rich. With all his being he hates the ugliness and commonness of home and the street he lives in.So he does something which enables him to live the life he wanted, the life he had always dreamed of, briefly and dangerously. He knows he could not sustain such a lifestyle for long, yet he is living his dream, ah to live for the moment! And ah, to kill