Abstract
This article presents the analysis of the conducted research on the description of the use of types and means of expressing modality to understand the idea and create artistic expression in the story of the English writer Herbert George Wells "The Door in the Wall". A distinctive feature of the work is the creation of a special personal atmosphere of sensations in the narrative for the formation of which the author uses modality. H.G. Wells' short story is one of the best short works in humanitarian and philosophical fiction. The article presents the results of the study of the author's use of subjective modality in this work as a source of textual expressiveness through, among other things, the grammaticalized attitude of the speaker to reality.