Question

Why did the psychiatrist's interpretations upset Charlie's wife? How did the psychiatrist pacify her?

Answer 1

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The Third level is a story of fiction written by Jack Finney about time travel. It revolves around a 31 year old man Charlie who is convinced that he has been to another era.

The psychiatrist interpreted that his version of the third level was just a waking dream wish fullfillment and that he was just unhappy. This made Charlie's wife mad. But the psychiatrist assured that Charlie just wanted to escape from the modern world of insecurity, fear, war, worry just like everybody else. He wanted to go to a world filled with peace and harmony and escape from the harsh reality so much that his subconscious mind has created a figment of imagination in his mind. The narrator is convinced he had been to the 1890s where the first world war was still twenty years off ad world war two over forty years in the future. The summer evenings were twice as long and people sat out in their lawns, the men smoking cigars ad talking quietly, the women waving palm leaves with the fireflies all around in a peaceful world. But the psychiatrist said that his mind was just takig a temporary refuge from reality.

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