Cather presents Paul as a flamboyant youth, with clothes and style not typical of high school. His taste in art is also one of great color and flamboyance. Before he goes to work at Carnegie Hall he decided to go the picture gallery, “where there were some of Raffelli’s gay studies of Paris streets and an airy blue Venetian scene or two which always exhilarated him”, and “eventually sat down before a blue Rico and lost himself”. Which seemed to indicate that he judged art purely through how it made him feel. Paul’s judgment of art and the world around him was lacking however as Cather describes that “in Paul’s world, the natural always wore the guise of ugliness, that a certain element of artificiality see
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