The Shining | Characters
The Shining has a relatively limited cast of characters for a novel of its length and scope. At the work's core, at the place where all thematic and structural lines intersect, is Jack Torrance — a man ridden by guilt and failure in his roles of husband, father, teacher, and aspiring author. Haunted by memories of his own alcoholic, violent father. Jack's career has been largely that of a man caught in the throes of Poe's "Imp of the Perverse," and the opportunity to serve as the winter caretaker of a luxury hotel deep in the heart of the Rocky Mountains is for him, literally, a...
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