Willa Cather

"Paul's Case"


1 Analyze Cather's depiction of setting. How does she connect the interior and exterior settings?

2 Explain the significance of the following quotation as it relates to Paul's character: "In Paul's world, the natural nearly always wore the guise of ugliness, that a certain element of artificiality seemed to him necessary in beauty."

3 Describe how Cather uses music as a literary motif.


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