Part one of term paper
The story "Paul's Case" describes Willa Cathers belief that in the early 1900's, economically disadvantaged people were not subject to such a beautiful atmosphere unlike that of the bourgeoisie. Cathers tells a story of a young boy who desperately wants to be a part of this world and then realizes that "this was what all the world was fighti ...

Part two of term paper
... that he was put in the wrong life when he was sentenced to Pittsburgh. His house and Cordelia Street portrayed such a deprivation and ugliness; his room with its yellow dingy wallpaper and the painted wooden bed that had began to flake. "The nearer he approached the house the more absolutely unequal Paul felt to the sight of it all; his ugly sleeping chamber, the cold bathroom with the grimy zinc tub..." His school was described with having "bare floors and naked walls". Paul's uplif ...