title In scary movies something scary always happens in the elevators.In the story “the elevator”the author's main character martin has treme.In the story william sleator creates suspense when martins fear of elevators escalates because of his encounters with the mysterious obese women, who intimates Martin every time he rides in the elevator.Martin is afraid of being in elevators. He was ‘always uncomfortable in elevators, afraid that it wall fall’. He was scared because the elevator looked dark, it had dirty brown walls, and he was scared it would never reach the next level. The obese lady would take up all the space in the elevator. Part of it scared martin because he got bullied in school so being in a small elevator with a big lady and
