The Third Level by Jack Finney is a story about time intersection. The narrator of the story is a thirty-one-year old Charley who works in New York. Charley insists that the Grand Central Station of New York has three levels, but people working at the station say only two. Charley claims that he has been to third level, on this his friend Sam, a psychiatrist, says that Charley is looking for escapes from the reality of life, as today’s world is full of insecurity, fear, wars, etc. Also, he called that it is a waking-dream wish fulfillment. Charley is also in the hobby of collecting stamps and his friends often labeled stamp collection a type of effort to escape from reality. To this Charley puts that he inherited the stamp collection hobby from his grandfather and during his time the world was a good and secured kind of place. So, he doesn’t agree that stamp collection is an excuse to remain aloof from the reality. One summer night Charley, instead of taking bus to reach hom...
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