(Cather, 215-216) Paul feels that he is special and deserves to be associated with those of his equal. ... He describes his house as containing "his ugly sleeping chamber; the cold bathroom with the grimy zinc tub, the cracked mirror, the dripping spigots" (Cather, 216), but when we switch to a third-person narrator, we discover that he lives in a honourable middle-class neighbourhood, on "a highly respectable street, where businessmen of moderate means begot and reared large families of children." ... The kids at school and at his job tease and insult him, his professors complain about him an...

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