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In “Paul’s Case”, it is evident that Paul has a serious case of social inferiority and self deception. All of the normalcy in his life he describes and sees in negative connotations. He dispises and rejects the idea of coming home, seeing his father, looking at the horrid yellow wall paper in his room. When he sees something of the upper-class like a painting or a play or an orchestra, he is lost in it’s beauty. Constantly through the motif of flowers we see the colorful, lush dream he sees the upper-class to be. He wants to be someone else. He wants to be rich and powerful, He wants to live easier and so he lies. Just as he crafts lies to his teachers and father, he begins living the lie that he is better than all of them. The ultimate testament to this is when he realizes that in New York, he doesn’t have to lie. This is because his existence there is a lie like an actor on stage he is merely “dressing the part.” When the truth begins catching up with him, when the beautiful flowers of the upper-class begin to wilt, he can not face his drab reality again and so decides to take his own life while he can still operate under the illusion.
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