The Way Up To Heaven
Roald Dahl


"The Way Up To Heaven" is a complicated mystery with a different twist to it. Mrs. Foster was a ordinary woman for the most part except that she had a "pathological fear of being late". Mrs. Foster was getting ready to go visit her daughter in Paris for six weeks, she waits in her main foyer waiting for her husband that they story does not say directly but you get the hint that he tries to be late all of the time to make her freak out. Mr. Eugene Foster constantly makes excuses to take a little bit more time. The couple eventually makes it to the airport and Mrs. Fosters plane ends up being delayed till the next day at eleven. Mrs. Foster wakes up at eight thirty the next morning and her husband delays again by "accidentally" miss placing a gift that he could have easily sent in the mail. As Mr. Foster goes back into the house to find the gift Mrs.Foster finds it in the car. She decides on going up to the door. Mrs. Foster hears a noise that shes heard before, she turns around returns to the car and drives away. She makes it to Paris and sends Mr. Foster a letter every Tuesday. When Mrs. Foster returns home there is no car waiting to pick her up so she takes a cab home. When she makes it home she smells a peculiar smell and calls the elevator repair man. From these clues the reader figures that Mr. Forster got stuck in the elevator when Mrs. Foster left for Paris and she new about it but left him to die till she got home.