Comment on some of the concrete details Cather dwells on. What, forinstance, do you make of the portraits of Washington and John Calvin and the motto placed over Paul’s bed (paragraph 18)? Of the carnation Paul buries in the snow (paragraph 64)?

What will be an ideal response?



  • Paul’s sensibilities recoil from all that is ugly, even ordinary. His room, featuring pictures of those austere and well-disciplined heroes George Washington and John Calvin, is hateful to him. Working-class Cordelia Street, where he lives, induces in him “a shuddering repulsion for the flavorless, colorless mass of every-day existence; a morbid desire for cool things and soft lights and fresh flowers” (par. 19). By paragraph 64, after Paul has run away from New York, he realizes that fresh flowers do not stay fresh forever. He sees the parallel between “their brave mockery” and his own “revolt against the homilies by which the world is run” and characterizes both as “a losing game in the end.” He dies like the flowers, his “one splendid breath” spent.

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