“Is Paul an irritating and arrogant teenager who died for nothing or is he just a boy who can’t fit into society?”
First of all, the story was like to A Rose For Emily in terms of deep symybolizm the writer used however this story is more “readable” and not boring unlike “Emily” where we see the actually lots of things,lots of events but actually nothing. The writers intention does not look like writing sth,rather playing with readers making them confused. In this story we face a well planned structure and puzzles to solve ,like Pauls father was a gay or not. So then such unclear points could lead to different aspects about “Paul’s Case” , whether he was a really “idiot” guy or somebody rejected by society because of his indecent manners. Actually because in the story the narrator tells from the perspective of Paul, generally, then it is difficult to reach an argumen actually objective argument. We are just under the manipulation of Paul against the “others”; teachers, his neighbors and significantly his father. I think it is really natural that teachers behave differently and rejectively to odd students .A student who does not listen to lesson or smiling meaninglessly to his teachers , of course, could not be appreciated by teachers and most importantly, Paul does not give chance to his environment to what he really wants or what really he is. He is really introverted guy and why somebody will be wrong when he said Paul is schizophrenic? He is just thinking and assuming people know what he thinks and and demanding tolerance. Lying in many situations, he wanna be away from his truths. Actually, in briefly ,pauls is really complicated person with the successful writing of writer; however ı think paul is not a guy who is not understood by society; may be in some extent it can be said he does not obey norms of society and so being alienated , but what he should have done was expressing what he thinks clearly and not behaving to his environment as if everything surrounding is stupid and insensitive.