Sorry Wrong Number Comparison Essay
Compare/Contrast Essay
I bet you never thought a phone could be such a suspenseful object… Sorry, Right Number by Stephen King and Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher, are both mystery plays. They are very suspenseful and entertaining, both involve an important phone message. The main character in both stories is a woman who gets neurotic over a phone call, but rightly so. These stories are older but are very interesting. Sorry, Wrong Number is about a invalid woman, Mrs. Stevenson, who is neurotic. She is home alone a lot while her husband works. She accidentally overhears a very crude phone call, two men are planning a murder. “At 11:15 a subway train crosses the bridge. It makes noise, in case her window is open and she should scream.” She is mortified, she calls the police trying to help but they won’t do anything. At 11:15 she hears someone pick up her extension on her phone, “There’s someone in this house. Someone’s downstairs-in the kitchen.” Then as she listens she hears someone creeping up the stairs… …show more content…
“Hello, Weiderman residence. Sobbing- Take… please take….t Please-quick-.” Then the line gets cut off, she frantically starts calling everyone she can think of but everybody’s fine. She is eventually forced to give up after checking on everybody. 5 years later, it’s the anniversary of her husband's death. Katie is crying and seems dazed, she picks up the phone and punches in numbers. She hears her own voice from 5 years ago answering the phone, she tries to tell herself to take her husband to the hospital but can't get the words out. It is the same message from all those years ago, when the line gets cut off… “Take him to the hospital! If you want him to live, take him to the hospital-” She realizes she’s too
I bet you never thought a phone could be such a suspenseful object… Sorry, Right Number by Stephen King and Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher, are both mystery plays. They are very suspenseful and entertaining, both involve an important phone message. The main character in both stories is a woman who gets neurotic over a phone call, but rightly so. These stories are older but are very interesting. Sorry, Wrong Number is about a invalid woman, Mrs. Stevenson, who is neurotic. She is home alone a lot while her husband works. She accidentally overhears a very crude phone call, two men are planning a murder. “At 11:15 a subway train crosses the bridge. It makes noise, in case her window is open and she should scream.” She is mortified, she calls the police trying to help but they won’t do anything. At 11:15 she hears someone pick up her extension on her phone, “There’s someone in this house. Someone’s downstairs-in the kitchen.” Then as she listens she hears someone creeping up the stairs… …show more content…
“Hello, Weiderman residence. Sobbing- Take… please take….t Please-quick-.” Then the line gets cut off, she frantically starts calling everyone she can think of but everybody’s fine. She is eventually forced to give up after checking on everybody. 5 years later, it’s the anniversary of her husband's death. Katie is crying and seems dazed, she picks up the phone and punches in numbers. She hears her own voice from 5 years ago answering the phone, she tries to tell herself to take her husband to the hospital but can't get the words out. It is the same message from all those years ago, when the line gets cut off… “Take him to the hospital! If you want him to live, take him to the hospital-” She realizes she’s too