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Family. Stephen King’s The Shining focuses on families and the way various forms of dysfunction—such as jealousy, insanity, abuse, and addiction—can rip them apart. At the center of the novel is the Torrance family— Jack, Wendy, and Danny —and they are fighting considerable odds. Jack is a recovering alcoholic with a history of abuse ...
Part 1, Chapter 1 Summary: “Job Interview”. Jack Torrance speaks with Stuart Ullman about the caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, which has 110 guest rooms. Jack has a wife named Wendy and a five-year-old son named Danny. Torrance instantly dislikes Ullman. Ullman says that he did not want to hire Jack, but Al Shockley, who sits on the ...
The Plot. The Shining was Stephen King’s third pub-lished novel, written as his rise to fame as a horror writer was beginning. The story centers on Jack Torrance, a struggling writer and ...
The Shining Summary. A boy’s special perception and a possessed hotel interact with deadly results in the novel “The Shining” by Stephen King. Five-year-old Danny Torrence and his parents, Jack and Wendy, are spending the winter at a resort high in the Colorado mountains.
“The Shining” by Stephen King is a psychological horror novel that delves into the haunting descent of a family into madness within the confines of an isolated and haunted hotel. Published in ...
Danny protests, but Tony shows him a bathtub with a hand hanging out of it. The hand is dripping blood. Tony takes Danny to a hallway with blue carpet. A bad "Shape" (4.58) is coming at him now, smelling of "blood and doom" (4.58). It has a huge mallet in its hand and is smashing things with it.
