Analyse af Roald Dahls 'The Way Up to Heaven'

The short story is about Mrs Foster, who’s married to Mr Eugene Foster. They are both retired but very rich. Mrs Foster has an almost pathological fear of missing things, whether it’s a train, a plane, a boat or even a theatre curtain. She is going to visit her daughter, Ellen, and her grandchildren whom she has never met. Her plane is set to leave at eleven o’clock, so she told the chauffeur to by ready to drive at nine fifteen. At that time she’s ready to go, but Mr Foster is late. That makes her nervous. They drive towards to airport, but the weather is very foggy, so she starts to get nervous about catching the plane. By the time they reach to airport and Mrs Foster goes to the airline counter, she finds out that the plane is late. She waits for hours just to find out that the plane is postponed to eleven o’clock the next day. She drives home again, and leaves again the next day at the same time as yesterday. But her husband is late, and when she gets nervous again, she leaves him behind. Her trip to Paris goes well, and she arrives back in New York after six weeks.