Essays on Short Story

Every person has their own story. In the novel “The Things They Carried”, by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien talks about his experiences of being thrown into the Vietnam war as a young innocent soldier and explains how not only did he become strongly affected by the…

In “A Rose for Emily” the narrator talks about a woman who has a mental illness that is labeled idiosyncratic this illness caused her to suffer and struggle immensely with her instability and with evolving in what happens to be the world around her. Emily…

Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer, best known for writing about the vast scenery of the American heartland and the pioneers who settled there during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Cather drew inspiration from life in Nebraska after her family relocated there…

I read the story “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather. As I started reading the story, I understand the setting, and the time period. The story holds the reader from the beginning and lets her reader to analyze the reader. The story talks about the boy…

In both Paul’s Case and A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather main characters find escape in music. Paul is a troubled young soul who is having a hard time finding purpose in this world. Paul soon finds happiness at Carnegie Hall Theatre he falls in…

Paul’s Case was written by Willa Cather in 1905. This is a short story about Paul, the main character, is obsessed with money and living in the upper class. He would do anything to obtain his goal. He would go on in life to steal…

Money is supposed to be used to make life easier and better, but this does not mean that our society should be only revolving around money. In the story of “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather, Paul steals money and runs away from his town to…

Small lies can lead to immense consequences, as does Paul’s distance from friends and family ultimately lead to his destructive behavior. In the short story, “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather Paul shows how lying is a useful way to avoid conflict but in the end,…

Paul takes his obsession of exhibiting to his companions how outstanding he is by demonstrating them ‘autographed pictures of all the members of the stock company…telling them of his familiarity with these people’ (Cather 135). Nonetheless, truth be told, his contact and likenesses with the…

“Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament” is a short story written by Willa Cather recounting the various events that led to the teenager’s Paul suicide. The story set in Pittsburgh and New York and revolves around Paul’s character, the protagonist who is pictured by Carter…