"The Way Up To Heaven," by Roald Dahl, is a short story about an elderly couple living in New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Foster live in a six-story house in the "Big Apple." Mrs. Foster is a like a volcano waiting to erupt. She lives in a constant state of worrying. Mrs. Foster fears for her life about missing, " a train, a plan, a boat, or even a theatre curtain." Mrs. Foster is about to depart on a six-week vacation to visit her only child in Paris. She fears she's going to miss her flight and continually asks her butler the time. To make matters worse, her husband likes to irritate her and make it seem like she won't make it on time. Almost half an hour passes by when finally Mr. Foster is ready to take his wife to the airport for her flight to Paris. On the way a heavy fog appears and Mr. Foster tells his wife her flight will be cancelled. Panic stricken, she finally arrives at the airport only to wait a few hours and have her flight delayed till the morning. She finds a cab and drives back to her house to wait for her next flight. The next morning, Mr. Foster insists they drive a little earlier to Mrs. Foster can drop off her husband at the club before she takes off to Paris. As they are leaving, Mr. Foster, again, irritates his wife by making it seem as if she were going to be late. He gets into the car only to have forgotten something in the house. With her patience completely gone, Mrs. Foster insists the driver take off without Mr. Foster. After her six-week vacation in Paris, she comes back home to her house in New York. Entering the house, she notices an awful odor lingering in the air. As if she knew what had happened, she sits in her husband's office and calls a repairman for the elevator. The central idea to The Way Up to Heaven is never underestimate the weak and frail. Mr. Foster deliberately made his wife anxious about being late to her flight. He continued to torment her frequently and in return got what he deserved.
This is very similar to Roald Dahl's opinion of human nature. ... In each of Roald Dahl's stories, there is always a connection made with human nature. ... Roald Dahl's short stories have left many of us in shock. ... The same technique was used in the ending of "The Way Up to Heaven." ... In "Landlady," the landlady would stuff her animals, and in "The way up to heaven," Mrs. ...
Roald Dahl For this essay I will be comparing four Roald Dahl short stories and their social, historical, and cultural content with reference to a fifth story which I felt differed from the rest. ... The four stories that I am going to compare are "Lamb To The Slaughter", "The Landlady", "The Man From The South", and "The Way Up To Heaven". ... The evidence of this in the story is where it says "Now and again she would glance up at the clock, but without anxiety, merely to please herself with the thought that each minute gone by made it nearer the time when he would come." ... The social i...
This is shown in the first scene of Act 4 where the witches are making a "hell-broth" to conjure up apparitions for Macbeth. ... An example of this in act 1 scene 3 when the witches mysteriously chant; "The weird sisters hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go, about, about, Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again to make up nine." ... By presenting the witches as evil, King James may have thought that more people would believe what he said about witches and start to think the same way about them, as he did. ... During his rule as Kin...
