Who Is Mrs Foster A Dynamic Character In The Way Up To Heaven

Socrates once said, ”The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new”. Mrs.Foster has an almost pathological fear of being late to anything, such as missing a train or being late to an event. Her husband, Mr.Foster, likes to take advantage of of her fear and make her to everything last minute. But when Mr.Foster almost makes her miss her plane to visit her daughter in Paris twice, it sparks a new desire of change that she wants to be in charge of her life - not her husband. In the story “The Way Up to Heaven” by Roald Dahl, Mrs.Foster is a dynamic character, which is revealed to readers through her submissive nature, how she changes part way through the story, and how the change she went through changed her life. In the beginning of the story, Mrs.Foster was a very obedient to Mr.Foster, her husband, and never disappointed him. She was the example of the perfect wife. Dahl writes, "She would never dare to call [Mr. Foster] out and tell him to hurry. [Mr. Foster] had disciplined her too well for that" (Dahl, 1). This shows the reader that Mrs.Foster was a very submissive wife and listened to her husband's requests. Mrs.Foster faces a character vs. character conflict. We know this because Mr.Foster victimizes Mrs.Foster by finding pleasure in taking advantage of his wife's pathological fear …show more content…
She goes from being the perfect wife to a woman who talks back and takes charge of her life. "I can't wait for him, I simply can't. I'll miss the plane" proving to the readers that Mrs.Foster is a dynamic character (Dahl, 5). Her personality transforms here because because her obedient and submissive nature is replaced by "a new note of authority" as the author states in the text (Dahl, 6). She's dynamic because this is a completely new side of Mrs.Foster and it helps us understand her