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hy did Charley view that Grand Central Station was growing like a tree pushing out new corridors and staircases like roots?


The Grand Central Station of New York has two levels, i.e.New Heaven and Hart-Ford. The narrator had been there so many times and he attained a new experience at every time. He would bump into corridors and new staircases. Very often he got the chances of losing his way and thought that he was on the Third Level.

Once while on the station of Second Level, he got into a tunnel. The sub urban trains left from there. There Charley ducked into an arched doorway leading for the subway. There he was got lost many a times. At another time he got into a tunnel of a mile length and came up in the lobby of a hotel. So he started thinking that the Grand Central was ever pushing up new corridors and new staircases like the roots of a tree. The new corridors and tunnels were trying to reach Times Squares and Central Park. But he lost his way and reached the Third Level. The strangest thing was the corridor that had led into the past.

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What docs the third level refer to?

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Was there a Third Level? Give an evidence from the story in support of you answer?

Why had Sam decided to settle in the city of Galesburg, Illinois in his imaginary world?

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Why did Charley want to visit the city of Galesburg with his wife Louisa, after reaching the Third Level at Grand Central Station, New York?


“He certainly can't go back to his old business, not in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1894.” What does it mean? Discuss.


Sam's letter is a fine blend of both reality and fantasy. Explain.


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