You hear about Aaron and the main character in generally the most of the story. There are a lot of descriptions about the environment, an episode at the main persons job, but I want to make a note of the situation at the Hospital. The central character and Aaron used to go to the Hospital to drink hot chocolate at their way home. In the situation at the hospital they want to take the elevator, but there is a sign on the lift: “God’s lift is out of order” and they are laughing and are making a joke out of it. The main character says: “We’ll never get to heaven then”. We can compare this situation at the hospital with Aarons early dead because Aaron died in a young age, and to early compared to the sign “God’s lift is Out of Order”. When Aaron jumped out of 22nd floor, he was in control over life and dead, not God as he supposed to be.
In the end of the story the central character is going to a party in a huge house, which is only for rich men. She is walking around by herself when she recognizes one of her friends in the Kitchen, who ask if she knows what has happened to Aaron. A lot of thoughts go through her mind before the guy tells her what happened. My first impression is that the main character feels guilty about what had happened because of the party where she would not tell Aaron her real feelings because of her friends, who were sitting in the background listening, and because she told him never to call her again.
Her thoughts in the end, when she had the conversation with her friend in the kitchen, are very clear because she is thinking about the last time she spoke with Aaron, and she really feels guilt because of the things she had said to Aaron. I think the central character appreciate the friendship with Aaron, but I think she realizes that Aaron has strong feelings for her and that requires more than a friendship, and because of that she tries to keep a distance between her and him, because she is afraid she cant keep her feelings back and would get to involved. .
I think the two key themes in the story are premonition and regret, because I think that the narrator knows that when she pushed Aaron away it ruined him and it made him a per tensional abuser and at some point of his life he would lose the will to live. The narrator says in the end “When?” It’s all I can say, even though I already know the answer”. I think she means that she really knew a long time before what would happen to Aaron and know she regret she have not done anything about it and she regret she had pushed him away because know it is to in the end it is to late.
I want to compare this short story “God’s Lift is Out of Order” with picture 2 which is a photo by Mick E. Westerlund and text 4 “Not waving But Drowning” which is a poem by Stevie Smith.
In the picture by Mick. E. Westerlund, there is only dark colours and in the golden line of the picture we see a woman dressed entirely in black. The whole picture shows a lot of sadness and the big heavy door is like a door in prison. It is like the woman from the short story. She feels sad in the end of the story because she have not helped Aaron when she could and know it is too late. I also see the door as a symbol of the door into heaven. As an adult Aaron has lived a terrible with a lot of drugs and now he has opened the door to heaven which is a more lighter place to live.
The poem by Stevie Smith is a poem about a man who is now dead. He used to have a run around and have fun but now he had drowned himself. I think the way the man is presented is a lot like Aaron is presented. Their situation is the same, they used to have a lot of fun but now their life has turned into a misery, in Aaron’s case it is a life with drugs. Instead of helping, friends around them just pity them and would not accept their problem you can see that in the poem in line 3, where it says, “I was much further out than you thought”. The fact that there is now one who is really helping them is what really kills the man in the poem and Aaron in the end.
