2-15-12 Door in the wall

This short story is told by a man named Lionel Wallace. Mr. Wallace is telling his friend about how in his life he has always been seeing this green door in a white wall. This first time he sees the door he goes in and finds a garden with exotic animals and people to play with since he was a lonely child. Through out his life Wallace has seen the green door and failed to enter because of many different reasons. The green door appears more often as his life progress and then at the end of the book Wallace dies. All of his potential encounters are told to his unnamed friend who begins to question even if there was a green door or if it was a coping mechanism used by his friend to escape reality. the coping mechanism makes sense because Wallace had a hard childhood where his father and mother were not very supportive and he was bullied at school.