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The story of Paul’s Case is one of a struggling teenage boy, named Paul, who is trying to find his true self. Paul wants to belong and he thinks he belongs to the “high society,” but his teachers and father refuse to go along with his thoughts and wants. The reader connects with Paul and his tribulations throughout the story. His conflicts are with his teachers and father. Their opinion of Paul is a troubled and unusual boy however, from his perspective he is simply misunderstood. He wants so badly to become part of the glamorous lifestyle he sees in theatres that it eventually consumes him to the point where he does not want to leave it, and he ends up killing himself.
As the story begins the reader sees Paul getting ready to go before a group of his former teachers. Paul’s character is portrayed as being a liar in the beginning, “Paul was quite accustomed to lying: found it, indeed, indispensable for overcoming friction” (eFictions, 79). He......

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