![]() ![]() Moving the action as far away from Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory as possible, Dahl puts his heroes, Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka, in a great glass elevator for what amounts to an epic road (space) trip with Charlie’s whole family, complete with all the long-suffering "are we there yet?" moments such a description implies.īut Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator also contains scathing, largely clichéd diatribes against US politics, including a weirdly infantilized look at the US president. Speaking of bitterness, there was no shortage of it on display in the sequel to Dahl’s most famous and most-beloved book. Constance Grady 10) Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972) Add to that the sheer bitterness of the premise, and you have one of Dahl’s most uneven works. Yeah, that solving-world-hunger angle comes out of nowhere at the end, as does the rest of the story’s not-exactly-resolution. Which, George’s father proclaims, means George has effectively solved world hunger! It makes her grow, becoming unimaginably large. Gleefully he mixes together curry powder and shampoo and antifreeze and other substances he finds lying around the house - but when he feeds it to his grandmother, it doesn’t have quite the effect he had in mind. ![]() So George decides to shake her up he makes her a dose of medicine. ![]() She forces her 8-year-old grandson to make her endless cups of tea and eat cabbage riddled with bugs. George’s grandmother has a puckered mouth and teeth stained pale brown. ![]()
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