the third level

-jack finney
Characters
 The Third Level at Grand Central Station
 A visit to his psychiatrist friend
 Charley loses his way at Grand Central
 The Third Level
 Galesburg
 Sam goes missing!
 A letter from Sam
 characters
1) Charley
2) Louisa –(Charley’s Wife)
3) Sam-(Psychiatrist Friend)
The third level at grand central station

 Grand Central Station of New York has two levels.

 But Charley, a thirty-one year old dweller of the city,
believe in the existence of this hypothetical third level
and also claims to have been there.
A visit to his Psychiatrist friend

 Charley visits a psychiatrist friend to talk about this

problem.
 Sam calls it a “waking-dream wish fulfillment”.
 He says that Charley try to escape from “modern world is
full of insecurity , fear, worry, and war..”
charley loses his way at grand central
 The grand station seems to be a maze.
 He loses his way a couple of times already.
 He again loses his way.
 This time he emerged in the third level of Grand central
station .
 The Third level
 Charley keeps walking.
 The third level is completely different from the present
world.
 Few ticket counters, a wooden information booth , open
flame gas lights and brass spittoons.
 People dressed in outmoded outfits , men have big
mustache.
 Newspaper with date June 11, 1894.
 Galesburg
 He dreamed to travel with his wife Louisa to Galesburg-
his UTOPIA.
 He exchanges 300 dollars and gets back only 200 old
style bills.
 He never bothers about loss.
 He believes everything to be cheaper in Galesburg so that
he can manage even with smaller amount.
 Sam goes missing
 Louisa worries about her husband’s misconception of
Third level.
 Asks him to stop looking for third level anymore.
 Sam who knows about Galesburg was missing for few
weeks.
 He and his wife keeps looking for him in the weekend.
A letter from sam
• Charley checks his stamp collections and then he see a
unusual letter.
• The letter was dated on July 18,1894.
 It is addressed to charley.
 The letter informs Sam reached Galesburg who invites
them there.
 Sam exchanged 800 dollars for old currency.
 The letter was written by Sam wiener charley’s
psychiatrist.