Robert’s Blogs

In the story Paul’s Case, the protagonist takes the reader on a small trip through his brief life. Paul is a high school boy, whom doesn’t put up with anything that is given to him except music. Music to Paul is life, and without music their is no happiness. The case I see Paul having is something related to depression or simply put, just wanting more in life. Paul loved the symphonies at CarnegieHall because he got to dress up and pretend to live in a lavish lifestyle. Paul became so enthralled with this dream that he stole $1000 from his father and traveled to New York with intentions of being there for a month. This is where Paul’s dream came into fruition, and he was only able to live there for a week because he bought the best food, flowers, room, and life. Paul after becoming completely broke was unable to come back to the middle class average lifestyle and took the easy way out by jumping in front of an oncoming train.