Paul's Case: A Study in Temperament Characters

Shmoop is no stranger to troubled teens. Check it out: Romeo and Juliet (trouble: forbidden love); The Outsiders's Ponyboy (trouble: parents dead, civil war at school, running from the law); Speak'...

For someone who looms so large in Paul's life, his father doesn't actually appear in the story very much. We only get glimpses of him, and mostly he exists in Paul's mind—like when Paul imagines...

We don't even know how many sisters there are, but we know that Paul finds them boring and stupid, just as he does everyone else on Cordelia Street. (To be fair, their conversation about "how many...

When we meet Paul, he has managed to get on the nerves of all his teachers, and this has gotten him suspended from school. Since we really only hear Paul's side of the story, it's not surprising th...

Charley is an teen actor at the local theater, and lets Paul hang around to help with the chores. We know they spend a fair amount of time together and that Charley helps Paul plan his New York tri...