In what different places do we follow Paul throughout the story? How dothese settings (and the boy’s reactions to them) help us understand him, his attitudes, his personality?
What will be an ideal response?
- Cather shows us Paul in school, at home, in the art gallery, in the theater, and, finally, in the big city. Everywhere, he functions apart from the ordinary beings who surround him. Isolated and unhappy, Paul regards his aesthetic longings as evidence of his superiority to other human beings. Absence of hope and cool disdain for the ordinary ways of attaining wealth and finery and an invitation to New York drive him to one grand, suicidal fling in the beautiful, glamorous world where he imagines he belongs.
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a. le nord b. le sud
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Mientras nosotros 1._____________________en Texas, 2.____________________ a adaptarnos a las costumbres estadounidenses. (vivir / empezar) Blank #1
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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Altruistic
a. desirable b. truthful c. abundant d. evil e. unselfish
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