The Lift that Went Wrong “I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who have made me unhappy. I’ve done it and got more than I ever dreamed of” (Anthony Hopkins). Revenge is a very poor way of retaliating to a situation. Mrs. Foster, a perfectionist, is being teased maliciously by her husband and is sick of playing games with him. Mr. Foster tries to push his wife into hating him or even making a fatal mistake towards their relationship. In the story, The Way Up to Heaven, Roald Dahl shows how a husband and wife can fall out of love by the wrong kind of teasing. When a false-hearted man falls out of line with his cruel intentions, a woman fails to listen to her hard and commits a great sin. Mrs. Foster makes an obsession out of being late to different occasions. Mrs. Foster’s nerves would start to get to her and she would twitch if the mere thought of being late would slip into her head. The twitch was a “tiny vellicating muscle in the corner of the left eye, like a secret wink” (156). Mrs. Foster would also “flutter and fidget about from room to room until her husband, emerged from his privacy” (156). Mrs. Foster has more than physical affects that happen as a result of her problem. She thinks that she will be late for her plane flight while exaggerating and using statements like “I know, I know, I know I’m going to miss it” (159) and “Now I really will miss it!”(159) to add more stress on herself. Mrs. Foster also has a tough time believing her husband “wasn’t purposely inflicting a nasty private little torture of his own on the unhappy lady” (157). Mrs. Foster always was a good and loving wife for thirty years. She does not deserve for even the thought of her husband doing anything dishonest being her back. Mr. Foster torments his wife and makes her life more stressful than necessary. It