LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

1. What does the third level refer to? Is it a medium or a way of getting away from the unpleasant
and insecure present forgetting your normal life?
2. How did Charley stumble into the third level at Grand Central Station? Describe his experience
there?
3. Describe Charley. Do you think his being on the third level at Grand Central Station was a waking-
dream wish fulfillment? What did his stamp collecting point to?
4. ‘The Third Level’ at the Grand Central Station is nothing but a convenient excuse for escapism.
Justify the statement.
5. Describe Charley’s character with special reference to his escapist tendency.
6. Describe Charley’s impression of the world he encounters on the third level at the Grand Central
Station. Why couldn’t he buy tickets to Galesburg?
7. How has Jack Finney interwoven fantasy and reality in ‘The Third Level’? Also highlight the
interaction of space and time in the story.
8. Charley wanted to go home quickly but he reached the third level. How did he get there?
9. What was the third level like? How did Charley know he had bumped into the past?
10. Why did Charley come back from the third level? What did his psychiatrist friend think about his
experience?
11. Sam’s letter to Charley is a fine blend of reality and fantasy. Comment.