The Way Up to Heaven - Mr. Foster
The Way up to Heaven
Mr. Foster: A man of nearly seventy years old who lived with his wife in a large six- storey house on East Sixty-second Street, and they had four servants.
The story is about Mrs. Foster, a woman who has an "almost pathological fear of missing a train, a plane, a boat, or even a theatre curtain". She is planning to fly to Paris to visit her daughter. Mr. Foster, her husband, seems to revel to her wife obsession of being late. So, he takes his time at the moment of preparing for this event, much to the distress of Mrs. Foster.
The following morning as Mrs. Foster prepares to take her car to the airport, her husband asked her to drive him at the club on the way, this terrifies her, because it may imply a delayed in her arrival at the airport. Before they leave, he says that he has forgotten a present for their daughter Ellen at home, so Mr. Foster decides to get into the house in search of it. Mrs. Foster starts getting increasingly impatient while waiting in the car, she notices that the present is hiding in the crack of the seat where her husband had been sitting and tells the chauffeur to call him down. she notices that the present is hiding in the crack of the seat where her husband had been sitting and tells the chauffeur to call him down.
Mr. Foster torments her cruelly by making her wait for him, quite unnecessarily, past the hour when they must leave to arrive safely on time. She has suffered his delaying tactics for years on special occasions and has only recently begun to suspect that he deliberately causes her great suffering. He may have had a right to be irritated by his wife’s foolishness of being obsessive about time and about getting late, but he has no excuses for increasing her misery by keeping her waiting unnecessarily. He knew that his wife will never tell him to hurry, because he has disciplined her to well to not do that. He seemed to enjoy torturing Mrs. Foster. On one or two special occasions in the later years
Mr. Foster: A man of nearly seventy years old who lived with his wife in a large six- storey house on East Sixty-second Street, and they had four servants.
The story is about Mrs. Foster, a woman who has an "almost pathological fear of missing a train, a plane, a boat, or even a theatre curtain". She is planning to fly to Paris to visit her daughter. Mr. Foster, her husband, seems to revel to her wife obsession of being late. So, he takes his time at the moment of preparing for this event, much to the distress of Mrs. Foster.
The following morning as Mrs. Foster prepares to take her car to the airport, her husband asked her to drive him at the club on the way, this terrifies her, because it may imply a delayed in her arrival at the airport. Before they leave, he says that he has forgotten a present for their daughter Ellen at home, so Mr. Foster decides to get into the house in search of it. Mrs. Foster starts getting increasingly impatient while waiting in the car, she notices that the present is hiding in the crack of the seat where her husband had been sitting and tells the chauffeur to call him down. she notices that the present is hiding in the crack of the seat where her husband had been sitting and tells the chauffeur to call him down.
Mr. Foster torments her cruelly by making her wait for him, quite unnecessarily, past the hour when they must leave to arrive safely on time. She has suffered his delaying tactics for years on special occasions and has only recently begun to suspect that he deliberately causes her great suffering. He may have had a right to be irritated by his wife’s foolishness of being obsessive about time and about getting late, but he has no excuses for increasing her misery by keeping her waiting unnecessarily. He knew that his wife will never tell him to hurry, because he has disciplined her to well to not do that. He seemed to enjoy torturing Mrs. Foster. On one or two special occasions in the later years