Paul's Case follows Paul, a teenager who lives for the time he spends working as an usher at Carnegie Hall. Paul is disgusted by every aspect of his middle-class life and only feels alive when surrounded by glamor and drama. When Paul is suspended from school and forbidden from working as an usher, he takes drastic measures to try to make his daydreams reality, but it ends in tragedy. The short story deals with the consequences of being unable to work hard or face up to reality.
Pauls Case I think Pauls Case was an interesting short story I think that there is an implication with the title of the story After reading the last sentence it seems to me that the part of the story could be told by a detective following the case of the boy who was killed by a train in New York The title could also mean that Paul has a lot on his mind and that he is carrying all of his real feelings and emotions in his case Part way through the story we see a change in the point of view of the