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• Heredity or Environment?

  Jennifer Hicks is a professor and director of the Academic Support and Writing Assessment program at Massachusetts Bay Community College in Wellesley, MA. In the essay below she explores the question of whether Paul's problem is due to heredity or to environment.

• Is Cather's Paul a Case?

  In the following essay, Wasserman presents various critical viewpoints to determine whether Paul should be seen as a sympathetic character and whether he has serious mental problems.

• The Measure of the Music-Prose Rhythm in Willa Cather's Paul's Case

  In the following essay, Salemi investigates Cather's use of specific prose rhythms in "Paul's Case," which he maintains are intentional and an outgrowth of the author's classical education.

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3. Paul's Case: Willa Cather Biography
4. Paul's Case: Characters
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6. Paul's Case: Style
7. Paul's Case: Historical Context
8. Paul's Case: Critical Overview
9. Paul's Case: Essays and Criticism
   1. Heredity or Environment?
   2. Is Cather's Paul a Case?
   3. The Measure of the Music-Prose Rhythm in Willa Cather's Paul's Case
10. Paul's Case: Compare and Contrast
11. Paul's Case: Topics for Further Study
12. Paul's Case: Media Adaptations
13. Paul's Case: What Do I Read Next?
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