Albert Shockley is a powerful man with a large interest in the Overlook, which showed a profit this season for the first time in its history. It read simply STAFF in small gold letters. The flower in his lapel was balanced off by a small lapel pin on the other side. Ullman folded his neat little hands on the desk blotter and looked directly at Jack, a small, balding man in a banker’s suit and a quiet gray tie. “They had resumed their original positions, Ullman behind the desk and Jack in front of it, interviewer and interviewee, supplicant and reluctant patron.
He’s quite self-reliant for a five-year-old.’ ” Second Excerpt Your wife isn’t a bit intimidated by the idea?’ And there’s your son, of course.’ He glanced down at the application in front of him. ‘I asked if your wife fully understood what you would be taking on here. That was bad Ullman was the type of man who would file such lapses away in a mental Rolodex for later consideration. Ullman had asked a question he hadn’t caught. Mistake Stuart Ullman for the local undertaker.Īs he listened to Ullman speak, Jack admitted to himself that he probably could not have liked any man on that side of the desk-under the circumstances. There was a red carnation in the lapel, perhaps so that no one on the street would To the hired help it spoke more curtly: This had better be good, you. I am a man you can bring your problems to, that suit said to the paying customer. The part in his hair was exact, and his dark suit was sober but comforting. Ullman stood five-five, and when he moved, it was with the prissy speed that seems to be the exclusive domain of all small plump men. “Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick. Smythe, James, ‘ Rereading Stephen King: week three – The Shining,’ The Guardian, June 22, 2012. The primal thing that makes him who he is, which he’s so desperate to supress, is what the hotel thrives on.” As Wendy explains to her son, “It wasn’t your daddy trying to hurt me … the Overlook has gotten into your daddy!” Jack’s misdemeanours – his failings as a father and husband – aren’t even his own. It wants Danny, because of his special ability and whether it gets him or not is down to Jack. Jack hears the voice of the Overlook as the novel progresses – his own touch of the shining – and it gnaws at him, turning him away from his family. It has a history of bringing power towards it, and of trying to grow by consuming that power. The hotel wears its malevolence on its sleeve. Haunted bathrooms, the echoing memories of debauched parties, a topiary animal garden that seems to come to life, wasps’ nests that feature a never-ending stream of hostile insects. The Overlook Hotel itself is alive huge and vacant, with secrets hidden everywhere. ” In the novel, as in so many of King’s early classics, location is all.
Book of the Month: The Shining (1977) by Stephen King Critical Evaluation
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