Paul's case is a tragic story spiraling downward with the yearning avarice of American success, sacrificing the already detrimental family relationship while desperately scraping his way forward. Destined to pursue the elusively flamboyant dreams that fascinate Paul's simple perception, he embarks on an audacious journey of fear and tormented blissfulness. Paul's addiction for success and extravagance outweighs the importance of a loving family and education.

During school Paul would smile and twitch with an arguably physiological disorder, most likely Asperger's disorder for he despises being touched. Through the omniscient 3rd person point of view showing inside the teacher's minds of Paul's deficit in focusing and obscure avoidance of educational values. There were no special education courses or assistance for the mentally handicapped, intolerance wrought the expectation of normality in students, thus Paul hadn't a chance to excel. Paul lacks the social skills, which many have developed through maturity and time, forcing him to seem weird and overly repulsive in speech and socializing. Paul avoids his Father and others not engaging in conversation, possibly because of his self-consciousness. "The tight straight coat ascended down his narrow chest." -(Pg. 236) This insecurity in appearance and communicating manifests a sense of failure toward society. Paul creates an entire reality within eccentric entities, which regularly enveloped Paul's perception. Reality being distorted in this method made an impossible task out of focusing on academic challenges or even on other people.

Simple is a mind that diverges into pretentious things, such as the luminous wonder of ballet dance and orchestral music, which would fascinate Paul for hours on end. Affixed in trances and virtually incapable of ever fathoming the artistic abilities displayed before his astounded eyes and ears, he was addicted. Vibrant colors swirling upon the stage with explosions of crimson roses eluded his meager conception of the massive performances. Making his home fester with "ugly sleeping chambers, old bathrooms with the grimy zinc tub, cracked mirror and dripping spigot," all falter desperately in comparison to the gigantic sky scrappers filled with contemporary artists and songs erupting magnificently into the streets. For Paul could walk in dignified assuredness through the platinum halls, where as in school he was the hideous metro sexual who was constantly being shoved aside. There wasn't an overpowering disciplinary tyranny being rained upon him here, he was liberated with uniqueness, which ultimately led him down a life of crime.

Thieving 25,000 dollars worth of bank notes away from his Father, Paul had now augmented his greed for power and high manner to extreme levels of chaos. Each day was another grand party separating his spirit further from his family, yet in his delusion Paul hadn't a remorse for he'd exceeded his destiny finding justification on fallacious terms. His New York City hotel room was a wondrous estate in comparison to his filthy home on Cordelia Street, further distancing himself from his abusive Father. His lack of responsibility fuels his abstract anarchy, deserting his home and school in a perpetuated adulthood only leads to the conclusion that Paul has physically grown up. Raised by his own tormented ways, he immerses himself in reclusion from his pursuing Father; in the back of his mind Paul can distinguish right from wrong. This hunger for fame and morale has destroyed his relationships with the only family member Paul has left, to drive forward his dark fate of extravagance.

No one is completely incapable of chasing their destiny until their fatal mistake has been made. Paul could have excelled with help and physiological triumph, yet he wasn't given a valid chance. Asperger's disorder had riveted his mind until he was a hollow shell for humanities expectations, the school couldn't teach him, and his Father wouldn't love him. All the while his squirming mind couldn't focus on the realistic prize of success that dangled so far from his grasp, yet not impossible to reach. Everyone is competent enough to achieve; yet it takes pure devotion and relentless effort to fulfill a dream. Yet Paul threw it all away in a spontaneous burst for his deepest desires, relinquishing his diminutive hopes of a prosperous life. Maybe it was the constant terrors of the night brought upon by his Father's merciless beatings, or the complete sense of strangeness in the presence of others that led him to steal his way toward happiness. The deprivation of love and all pleasure in the arts was losing its grasp upon Paul, when he had to exert himself to deadlines of arriving home at night and attending school. Such necessities of living fell upon his free spirit like a heavy burden, which his misguided hands shoved off in thievery.

The Father figure seems to be a business man himself, socializing with neighbors and discussing present matters, some of which assuredly rubbed off into Paul's character. Essentially encrypting these wonderful methods of existence into Paul's mind, maybe one day he would be just as accepted as his robust Father figure. As an immoral act of desperation Paul stole the bank notes, out of vengeances for the vicious beatings and to prove that Paul could live on his own and be better off without his Father. Paul's main concern has always been the destination of an arduous life's rewards, rather than the actual labor one must strive through in order to earn them. He had no realistic Father to teach him of respect and discipline, just a Marxist maniac hell-bent on witnessing the success of his son, with sullen negligence and scare tactics. The absence of a Mother is symbolized in the carination Paul displays upon his narrow chest, as a distressed plea for parental guidance, which he knew was far-gone. Thus, Paul had no real shot at life aside from criminal acts, misunderstood and dying with gluttony he hadn't a choice but to proceed with the Devil's will.

The round character Paul, trapped in his own dimensions, knew he must disappear before his Father found him in New York, so he dropped down in front of an on coming train and ended his life. The revolver wouldn't have did him in, not in the cinematic performance Paul craved, his dream was temporary and now over. Paul knew it wouldn't last forever, and dynamic characteristics show through for he finally admits he was wrong. This is the reason for his suicide, Paul knew it was finished and nothing could demote him back to his sagging old home.

Life is precious, misunderstood, and then in its weary and confined ways it is forgotten, only an aristocrat with infinite creativity can flourish. Paul devoured this ideal within his mind, his fascination spewed onward from meritocracy. The disorders and apathy for educational took a definite toil upon his temporary dream, but didn't deter him from achieving all he wanted in life. Limited he was to ways of a finical curse, yet with tragic outbursts of immortality he achieved it all. Incurable devotion to extravagance and yearning led the socially reclusive being he'd become to vanish eternally into the snowy drift of eternity.