contentment and the termination of this anxiety will arise after he attains this imaginary reality. Therefore, this causes Paul to act irrationally and run off to New York.
Even though Paul’s mental instability is evident, his family and those around him do not give it much attention or treat him the right way one should treat a person with a mental illness. Often it seems that they forget something is wrong with Paul and do not listen and offer him support. Instead, they solely acknowledge that something is wrong as illustrated when the narrator says, “They agreed with the faculty and with his father that Paul's was a bad case”(Cather 1). It is possible that if his family and those closest to Paul had helped Paul that his tragic descent into
Even though Paul’s mental instability is evident, his family and those around him do not give it much attention or treat him the right way one should treat a person with a mental illness. Often it seems that they forget something is wrong with Paul and do not listen and offer him support. Instead, they solely acknowledge that something is wrong as illustrated when the narrator says, “They agreed with the faculty and with his father that Paul's was a bad case”(Cather 1). It is possible that if his family and those closest to Paul had helped Paul that his tragic descent into