She said he had proved his point and won the war. When Scott approached Deirdre with the picture she became even angrier. He had approached Missy Donaldson and Deirdre McComb, married lesbians, about their dogs in the past but Deirdre had told him that the dog was incorrect.

He suggested that Scott tell his doctor what was happening, but Scott said that he did not want to be forced to undergo medical testing.Īt home, Scott was pleased when he was able to get a picture of his neighbors’ dogs doing their business on his lawn. Scott admitted he had been scared when he realized that the clothes that he wore appeared to weigh nothing. He had been regularly losing weight, according to the scale, but never got any thinner. Scott demonstrated to Bob that he weighed the same amount fully clothed as he did wearing only underwear. He had a complete examination by his regular doctor and was told he was in perfect health. Scott paid a visit to Bob when he first became scared by his weight loss. Scott’s determination to befriend a lesbian couple in his neighborhood, one he had offended without even realizing it, sparked a change in his entire community. Not wanting to spend what might be left of his life being tested and viewed as an oddity, Scott decided to make at least one thing in his life right. Scott talked to Bob Ellis, his friend, and a retired doctor, about what might be happening to him. In the novella Elevation by Stephen King, Scott Carey does not look any different, he is the typical overweight American male, but the scale showed that he was losing weight at an alarming rate. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: King, Stephen.

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