y move to get to New York, stealing the money, boarding the train, and recalling his thoughts on how easy it was for him to do this.When Paul believes his father is coming to New York to find him he knows its over for him, "the old feeling that the orchestra had suddenly stopped, the sinking sensation that the play was over" he had to return home. Paul dreaded this and felt he was again losing "the drifts lay already deep in the fields and along the fences, while here and there the tall dead grass and dried weed stalks protruded black above it." Cather does say he has "the hopeless feeling of sinking back forever into ugliness and commonness that he had always had when he came home."I think the sentence describing his watching the snowflakes whirling by his window is in fact the whirling of his life - reality to fantasy. This made me feel saddened. The following statements in the story also made reference to his feeling; "flower gardens blooming" - he was budding out into the person which whom he had always wanted to become. "The flowers which blossomed unnaturally in the snow" - this was the life he saw natural for himself, therefore he too blossomed inside. "The raging Atlantic winds" - made reference to his real life which he did not like and that of which he dreamed, which he knew he could not hold onto forever. The "sickening vividness" - of his life at home. ...
