Setting Of Paul's Case Essay

Part A: Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case”

In the story “Paul’s Case”, the setting is somewhat related to one another. Willa Cather arranges each scenario in various places all having different meaning to the main character of the story Paul. The story begins in his High school, Pittsburgh high school where Paul is seen as a devil, basically a bad kid who will influence every other student. Pittsburgh high school in the story represents a place where Paul does not belong, in which he must find his way around or to have a separate life where he can make a living. Paul, however has another live on the side, which in some case is his wonderland. Carnegie hall, theater his magical wonderland of songs and music. Knowing that a member of his family is missing, his mother who was sick for a very long time and died, he related to a woman, in Carnegie hall, a soprano soloist, in which Paul gave a personage of a queen.

However, the setting in this case is placed at the start of the story ‘’ I kept quiet for most of the trip. It was too cold for talk.’’ The author introduced the setting at the very beginning, which gives an effect to the reader that it was winter time. Indeed "Sausage and Beer," a story about the need for, and the difficulty of, making genuine contact with other people. In this story, a boy and his father set out to visit the father's brother, Uncle Theodore, who is in a state mental hospital. the visit shocks the boy with its banality, with the utterly ordinary "quiet sound of madness." At the end of the story, father and son stop at a speakeasy for sausage and beer. Food is there, and cheerful noise, and the warmth of the bar after multiple images of freezing cold. The most important setting, in this case is the cold. Is repeatedly mention in the story which has been replaced by comforting