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Tension between an individual and society as seen in the short story “Paul’s Case�.
In the short story “Paul’s Case� by Willa Cather, Paul is a very confused man. He believes that he was born into a society that does not meet his standards. This belief causes tension and problems between him, his life and everyone associated with him. At first there is tension between Paul and his teacher at school, followed by a huge tension between him and his father that progresses to the dismal end of the story.
In the beginning of the story, the reader is introduced to Paul. He seems to be a typical and normal teenage boy although he is in trouble for causing an incident that occurred in the classroom. As the story progresses, the reader can gather that Paul is withdrawn and isolated from the world and the people in it, this is because of how he feels about the society he was brought up in and the problems it is causing between him and the people around him due to his want to be......

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