Thursday, 03 September 2009 21:26
Paul's Case by Willa Cather
VHS, 54 min., 1980
Paul yearns to leave his grim, ordinary life in a respectable neighborhood of industrial turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. He has come to hate its "ugliness and commonness." Cather's story dramatizes the social alienation that Paul's sensitive and aesthetic impulses lead to, heightened as they have been by the idealism of adolescence.
Paul yearns to leave his grim, ordinary life in a respectable neighborhood of industrial turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. He has come to hate its "ugliness and commonness." Cather's story dramatizes the social alienation that Paul's sensitive and aesthetic impulses lead to, heightened as they have been by the idealism of adolescence.
Category:
Literature