The door in the wall by h g wells essay sample 13164

When listening to the story, Redmond says, he believed it. The next morning, however, he decided it was nothing more than a fantastic tale well-told; he marveled at how earnest his friend had appeared and how real the story had seemed.

A few months after hearing his old friend’s story, Redmond reads in the paper that Wallace has been found dead at the bottom of a deep pit, apparently after having walked through a mistakenly unfastened door in a construction site.

The boy emerged into an indescribably beautiful garden in which he immediately felt a sense of joy and well-being. West Kensington had vanished; he forgot about the duties and fears of his former life. He had the sensation that he had come home and that everything in this place was right and good.

Similarly when Wallace walks by the door with Gurker he is preoccupied with the possibility that he will have a place in government. Again this might suggest that Wallace has no need to escape into the garden due to the fact that he has elevated himself sufficiently in life.