How would you interpret this sentence? How would you interpret this sentence ‘I saw the doors of the elevator closed, and the grill shut and the fourth-floor button pushed by the porter’? I think it is clear that the porter pushed the button for the fourth floor. What is confusing to me is whether the porter closed the doors of the elevator and shut the grill. According to the sentence ‘The man holding the feet opened the door’ in the last passage, it seems, unlike today’s elevators, the doors of that elevator couldn’t open automatically. So I guess one had to close the doors of that elevator too. So back to the sentence ‘I saw the doors of the elevator closed, and the grill shut and the fourth-floor button pushed by the porter’, I guess the porter closed the doors of the elevator, shut the grill and pushed the button for the fourth floor. What do you think? Thanks. It’s from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Chapter 13).the context: In the elevator we were crowded and as my legs bent the pain was very bad. "Straighten out the legs," I said. "We can't, Signor Tenente. There isn't room." The man who said this had his arm around me and my arm was around his neck. His breath came in my face metallic with garlic and red wine. "Be gentle," the other man said. "Son of a bitch who isn't gentle!" "Be gentle I say," the man with my feet repeated. I saw the doors of the elevator closed, and the grill shut and the fourth-floor button pushed by the porter. The porter looked worried. The elevator rose slowly. "Heavy?" I asked the man with the garlic. "Nothing," he said. His face was sweating and he grunted. The elevator rose steadily and stopped. The man holding the feet opened the door and stepped out. We were on a balcony. There were several doors with brass knobs. The man carrying the feet pushed a button that rang a bell. We heard it inside the doors. No one came. Then the porter came up the stairs.