"Paul's Case": Willa Cathers

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glaring up at the actors, divas,
or performers at the Schenley Hotel or at the works of art at Carnegie
Hall. Even though he had spent numerous days fantasizing at masterpieces
and stage plays, Paul "had no desire to become an actor, any more thatn he
had to become a musician. He felt no necessity to do any of these things;
what he wanted was to see, to be in the atmosphere, float on the wave of
it, to be carried out, blue league after blue league, away from
everything." At the Schenley Hall he was able to see "all the actors and
singers of the better class" that had stayed there when they were in the
city or the big manufacturers that actually lived there. Paul had
wondered whether he were "destined always to shiver in the black night
outside [his ugly Pittsburgh], looking up at it". Carnegie Hall was Paul's
"fairy tale, and it had for him all the allurement of a secret love." This
was the beauty that he had dreamed of, which would not be found in his
world, reality.

Paul ...

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