Paul’s Case By: Willa Cather PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: • Teenage boy • High school student • “Tall for his age” • Very skinny • Has “high, cramped shoulders and a narrow chest” • “His eyes were remarkable for a certain hysterical brilliancy, and he continually used them in a conscious, theatrical sort of way, peculiarly offensive in a boy.” Paul also has “abnormally large” pupils, “as though he was addicted to belladonna, but there was a glassy glitter that drug does …showed first 75 words of 429 total…

…showed last 75 words of 429 total…which he thought to be the only way out. What is sad, to me, is that he didn’t do anything, didn’t even try to change things to make his life better or become happier with himself. I think we all know life sucks at times; it’s just the way things are. Paul just found himself in a rut with no way out. And again, he saw suicide as his only way out.