The Landlady

In his story "The Landlady," Roald Dahl employs a variety of figurative language devices, such as imagery, simile, personification, and idiom. The story is especially strong in visual imagery....

We sense there's something odd about the landlady from the very moment poor old Billy Weaver sets foot inside her guest-house. She seems perfectly nice on the surface, but there's something more...

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In the short story "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl, readers do not find out the landlady's true intentions until the end. However, the author expertly plants clues hinting that something sinister is...

First, Dahl holds the reader's attention through the opening setting. Billy is in an unfamiliar town; it is dark, and he needs shelter from the "deadly cold" of the air and the wind that is "like...

The reader is kept in Billy's point of view and picks up clues with the viewpoint character but attaches more significance to them. The first would be the cheapness of the rent, which is only five...

Dahl effectively creates tension by setting a nightmarish tale in a seemingly normal, everyday environment. The story takes place in a cosy bed and breakfast in the beautiful, ancient city of Bath....

Roald Dahl is known for his rather eerie, or at least chilling, stories, and "The Landlady" is no exception. We meet her when seventeen-year-old Billy Weaver arrives in town and decides to enquire...

One point of symbolism in Roald Dahl's "The Landlady" is the name of the pub recommended to Billy for his first night in Bath, The Bell and Dragon. The name can be seen as a biblical allusion to...

Your question appears to refer to a short story titled "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl. In this story a seventeen-year-old young man named Billy Weaver has been sent on a business trip and needs to...

Of course the tottering and doting old lady appears to be the nicest person in the world, but Dahl gives his own hints about what might be going on. The overpowering ability of the bed and...

In literature, the eyes of females usually carry significance. The color of the eyes is meant to be a reflection of the soul. If the eyes are fair and kind, so is the soul of the character. That is...

There are tell-tale signs throughout the story which hint at the 'surprise' which is to come. While looking for 'The Bell and Dragon' to take a room there, Billy Weaver notices a sign " Bed and...

After a certain point in the story Roald Dahl holds the reader's interest with foreshadowing. But in the early part he holds the reader's interest just by describing a scene of perfect simplicity...

According to the American Heritage Dictionary,a double entendre is A word or phrase having a double meaning, especially when the second meaning is risque (See link) In the story "The Landlady"...

A seventeen-year-old man named Billy Weaver travels by train from London to Bath for business. When he gets to Bath, he is supposed to find lodgings and then report for work the next day. The...

The Landlady does suffer from a trauma that has led her to obsession. Her obsession is towards things that she detects on people which make them unique, like for example when she said that "Mr....

The grotesque, murderous behavior of the title character in Dahl's short story "The Landlady" could be seen as an extended act of revenge upon society. Or, more specifically, it could be seen as...

Roald Dahl uses plenty of foreshadowing in his story "The Landlady," and this gives readers plenty of clues that Billy Weaver just might experience a horrible fate. Let's look at some examples....

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