Study Guide

Paul's Case: A Study in Temperament Characters

By Willa Cather

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For someone who looms so large in Paul's life, his father doesn't actually appear in the story...

We don't even know how many sisters there are, but we know that Paul finds them boring and...

When we meet Paul, he has managed to get on the nerves of all his teachers, and this has gotten...

Charley is an teen actor at the local theater, and lets Paul hang around to help with the chores....