6/4 Willa Cather’s “Paul’s
Case”
suspension: The suspension of
something is the act of delaying or stopping it for a while or until a decision
is made about it.
temperament: Your temperament is
your basic nature, especially as it is shown in the way that you react to
situations or to other people.
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Paul’s case is a short story by Willa Cather.
Paul, a suspended high
school student in Pittsburgh, is
frustrated with his middle-class life and the people around him not
understanding his love of beautiful things, and he runs away to New York City.
The term "Paul's
case" is the way teachers and his father refer to Paul concerning his lack
of interest in school. It has been suggested that it enables Cather to "
the voice of medical authority."
· Willa Cather
Willa Sibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels
of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O
Pioneers! (1913), The
Song of the Lark (1915), and My
Ántonia (1918). In 1923 she
was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One
of Ours (1922), a novel set
during World War I.
We come and go, but the land is
always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who
own it — for a little while.
(O Pioneers!)
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With a job traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham
enjoys his life living out of a suitcase, but finds that lifestyle threatened
by the presence of a new hire and a potential love interest.
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Omaha is the largest
city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county
seat of Douglas County.
homilies: A homily is a speech or piece of writing in which someone
complains about the state of something or tells people how they ought to
behave.
folly: If you say that a
particular action or way of behaving is folly or a folly,
you mean that it is foolish.
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IMDb: Paul’s case
Lost in a
world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary
existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. As fate would have it Paul gets
his chance by stealing some money and subsequently running off to glamorous New
York City.
synopsis: A synopsis is a summary of a longer piece of writing or
work.
suave: Someone who is suave is charming, polite, and elegant, but may be
insincere.
peculiar: odd, strange
Paul was tall for his age and very thin, with high, cramped shoulders and a narrow chest.
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Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend.
He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which
leads him to make a pact with the
Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The
Faust legend has been the basis for many
literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the
ages.
Faustian: ambitious person
Surrender (give up): If you surrender,
you stop fighting or resisting someone and agree that you have been
beaten.
Faust “Soldiers’
Chorus” à foreshadowing
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