The two stories used in this comparison and contrast are “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather and “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell. Two unique stories around two different characters that have the same theme topic. Two characters that are broken from the conditions in their lives that has driven them to looking for an escape through various forms of death, these stories have similarities and differences that drive the characters to the motivation of death. In “Paul’s Case” the reader follows the protagonist Paul, a misfit teenager that longs for a different life, that leaves him not accepted in the world around him, that pushes him to take his own life. “Paul’s Case” shows an internal conflict following Paul’s life that uses an integral setting