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home where everyone seemed the same and there was a feeling of despair. was a young man, felt that his father, teachers and classmates misunderstood therefore were unworthy of his company. In the story there are many symbolic elements. Flowers, for instance, symbolize Paul's personality and life. The between the boy and the flowers is made by the author many times throughout In the beginning of the story Paul has a meeting with the teachers of his school because he was misbehaving. For the meeting Paul shows up wearing "clothes were a trifle outgrown . . . [with] a red carnation in his buttonhole" (49). This total disrespect for authority because he is going to get disciplined; and the thought this "was not properly significant of the contrite spirit befitting a boy
During the last days of his stay in New York, Paul feels that his status is becoming dead and useless as his money runs out. It was a losing game in the end, it seemed, this revolt against the homilies by which the world is run. Just as his beautiful, perfect flowers had shone with radiance and basked in their glory of being b. To Paul, people who enjoyed having the presence of flowers seemed to be of a higher class above the rest. his enjoyment of his flowers" (66), and goes on to say that he couldn't remember a time of such bliss. Paul worked as an usher at Carnegie Hall. He describes his neighbourhood, the people he despises to be, "prosy men who never wore frock coats, or violets in their buttonholes (pg. " He would dream about, "the flowers he sent (pg. Paul expresses the symbolism between his life and the flowers: The carnations in his coat were drooping with the cold, he noticed; all their red glory over. Paul regretted his own personal rebellion. 60)," to members of the stock company who were his "acquaintances. While Paul was in New York City one of the first things he did was "[ring] for the bell boy [to send] him down flowers" (62).
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