Feeling discouraged and inadequate happens to all of us, but when these feelings become a way of life, or even frequent visitors, they start to tear us down first mentally and then physically. Some of the symptoms of depression are persistent sadness, lack of energy, and suicidal thoughts. In "Paul's Case" written by Willa Cather is a story that tell us how the main characters is forced into depression by supposedly those who love him. .
In the story "Paul's Case" written by Willa Cather we read in the beginning that Paul seems to be happy even though he is being ridiculed by his teachers. Although he was being ridiculed "He stood through it smiling his pale lips parted over his white teeth". (pg 126) For some reason as I was reading this I perceived Paul to be a joker. Someone that was witty, funny, and somebody you could picture being the class clown. . .
When Paul went to work I felt that Paul was extremely happy as if he was living a very good dream. At work he was cheerful. "He was a model usher: gracious and smiling he ran up and down the isles" "he carried messages and brought programs as though it were his greatest pleasure in life. "(pg. 127) This is what you read at the beginning of the story. From the time that he was at the theatre we knew his dream and his fantasy. He wanted to live like the stars. .
After work John went home. As he was going home John felt his anxiety build up has he was getting closer to his home. While he was going home we read that "He approached it to-night with the nerveless sense of defeat, the hopeless feeling of sinking back forever into ugliness and commonness that he had always had when he came home." When I was a little kid, I didn't like going home either. Although, I didn't have such feelings as I was going home. It was like Paul was going to a haunted house yet he was just going home. The home is the laboratory of our lives, and what we learn there largely determines what we do when we leave there.
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