Feifel's portrayal of death as a door or a wall is intended to help us do what?

• A. Celebrate death
• B. Evaluate death
• C. Deny death
• D. Fear death

Answer: (B)

Feifel’s door-and-wall imagery invites you to evaluate death rather than simply react to it. By framing death as a door, he suggests it could be a transition that opens up questions about meaning, purpose, and what death means for how we live. By presenting death as a wall, he highlights avoidance and fear that such questions can provoke. Together, the metaphor pushes you to examine your beliefs, emotions, and assumptions about death and to weigh what gives life meaning in light of mortality. The goal is to encourage a thoughtful appraisal of death, which can reduce blind fear or denial and foster a more informed, personal stance toward it.