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Suspense In The Elevator By William Sleator

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Seeing the same person over and over in a old, dusty elevator sounds pretty scary.In the short story, “The Elevator,” William Sleator’s main character Martin y has a tremendous fear of elevators.The author creates suspense when Martin’s fear of elevators escalates because of his encounters with the mysterious, obese woman, who intimidates Martin every time he rides in the elevator. Martin is afraid of being in elevators. Sleator writes, that martin was “nervous in (the elevator) from the first day he and his father moved into the apartment”(31). Martin worries that the elevator “might never reach the next (floor), as it “shuddered in a kind of exhaustion” each time it moved. It was scary looking too, with “its baleful atmosphere”. It was
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