The Character Of Billy's 'The Landlady'

“You said Christopher and Gregory are still here, correct?” Billy asked the landlady interested in who they really were.

The main character in the story The Landlady is Billy a 17 year old boy from london, he wears a navy blue coat, a new trilby brown hat, and a new brown suit. Billy’s main motivation was to be a successful young businessman. Billy needs to find somewhere to stay, instead of staying in a hotel, forever. Billy stays in a hotel called Bed and Bath in a town called Bath. This leads Billy in danger. The owner of the hotel is a Landlady, she wants to kill billy, to stuff him. The Landlady has killed and stuffed people before. The Landlady poisons Billy's drink, so she can kill him. Billy starts to feel dizzy. The story ends because the Landlady kills Billy and stuffs him, like she did the others.The Landlady wins, and gets away with murder.

The theme in the short story, “The Landlady”, by Roald Dahl is that naive people who judge outward appearances should avoid trusting deceptive strangers because this can result in death. The first example is when Billy first enters the Bed and breakfast and puts his stuff down. “There were no hats and coats in the hall, there were no umbrellas, no walking sticks-nothing”(Dahl 26). This means that the place is empty because it is bad. This shows that Billy is naive and lacks wisdom. Furthermore, when talking with the landlady she says that Temple and Mulholland are still on the 4th floor together. “But my dear boy, he never left. He’s still here. Mr.Temple is also here. They’re on the fourth floor, both of them together”( Dahl 32). These are signs of danger because usually, someone who hears that

The spooky outdoor setting is made to prepare the reader for the appearance of a cozy indoors, whereas the landlady’s scary features on the inside are covered up by her warm but deceitful personality. She tricks unsuspecting young men with her generous and very motherly personality.

'The Landlady' is a short story about a young lad called Billy travelling to Bath on a business trip. He arrives in Bath in the evening and looks for accommodation. Bath was an unfamiliar place to Billy so he was unsure of the area. Billy was guided by a porter who recommended the 'Bell and Dragon' because it was close by, but Billy never went. Although the landlady offered cheap prices and cosy surroundings, she changes her attitude towards Billy as the story unfolds. He then realises that this landlady doesn't appear to be all that she seems to be. He begins to become concerned during his stay but never manages to uncover the landlady's secret before she murders the young lad.

When I first heard of this case, I knew I had to find out the truth. The investigation of Billy Weaver’s disappearance was eerie and left me with a lingering pit in my stomach. In early morning Billy came down from the London looking for a motel. He ended up going to a bed and breakfast. The bed and breakfast was hosted by a dainty landlady. That was the last place that Billy was seen before his disappearance. It is clear that the landlady is guilty of billy's disappearance because of the missing past guests, the cheap price, and the bitter almond tasting tea.

In the beginning , Billy thought the landlady was ‘terribly nice’,which he was quite grateful to have such a nice landlady who give him a well-appointed service, but as the conversations go on, Billy was then frightened by her weird and creepy contents, he ‘sat there staring straight ahead of him into the far corner of the room, biting his lower lip.’ tells the readers that he’s begin to frightened and suspect landlady, foreshadowing the readers that she might be doing something that couldn’t be trusted by Billy.

Billy Weaver, 17, came to Bath by train from London last weekend. That Monday, he failed to appear for his first day at his job. After missing three more days, the branch manager phoned Weaver's family, who reported that they had lat seen him getting on the train for Bath. Concerned, they notified the police. The last person to have seen Weaver was a porter at the train station, who claims to have directed Weaver to the nearby tavern The Bell and Dragon.

The real measure of success in any horror novel lies it in its ability to generate a range of emotions from its audience. Arguably, more than any other genre, horror must be consciously aware of this necessity and control it thoroughly from start to finish. In Shirley Jackson’s, The Haunting of Hill House, she works to evoke a range of emotions in order to challenge the beliefs of the characters and in turn, how they react to certain conflicts that arise. In particular, Eleanor, one of the housemates at Hill House, becomes vulnerable to complications of the house due to her past. Eleanor unfortunately obtains

At first he sees the place, and does not listen to his gut that tells him to avoid it. Dahl writes, “The place seemed to draw me in. . .It had a odd feeling about it.”This is significant because he doesn’t go with his gut. Billy knows there is something weird but does not trust himself

In the story “The Landlady”, Roald Dahl, who is the author, introduces Billy as a pretty naive and ignorant character based on decisions he made throughout the story. In the beginning where Billy meets the landlady, he is thrilled by the price of the Bed and Breakfast since it was incredibly cheap. The narrator explains, “It was fantastically cheap. It was less than half of what he had been willing to pay.” Billy is happy with the money situation, but he is not doubting or questioning it at all even when the landlady is willing drop the price even lower.

In the story The Landlady billy, a boy traveling and looking for a place to stay. On his way to the “bell and dragon” he sees a bed and breakfast, so he went inside. He notices many problems but still stays. In the story author Roald Dalh shows the reader that there are many red flags throughout the story. Billy notices a lot of them but doesn’t trust his instincts and ultimatly lead to his mistake.

has been an unfortunate day in the London area… Three men have been found at a bed and breakfast hotel near the bell and dragon… dead and stuffed. A man who knew the man who last went there is a porter. The porter said the man’s name was Billy Weaver. Billy Weaver was a 17-year old businessman who was very new to the London area. The porter noticed after he came back to work duty the

Some people will claim this is not horror because it isn’t very graphic or horrifying. However, horror stories do not need gruesome scenes to be horror. The Landlady has suspense. For example, in the story, it says, “He pressed the bell. Far away in a back room he heard it ringing, and then at once—it must have been at once because he hadn’t even had time to take his finger from the bell-button—the door swung open and a woman was standing there” (Dahl 166). This is when Billy Weaver is mysteriously drawn to the bed and breakfast sign and waits suspensefully at the door. Before even taking his finger off the doorbell, the Landlady swings the door open. This relates to suspense in the Landlady because it was weird and creepy how drawn he was to the sign and very suspenseful to see what was behind the door. The sign also gave a kind of odd feel to the paragraph making it suspenseful to see was inside and beyond the door. The Landlady also has dark and creepy settings. For example, later in the story it says, “’And have you met my little Basil as well?’ She nodded toward the dachshund curled up so comfortably in front of the fire. Billy looked at it. And suddenly, he realized that this animal had all the time been just as silent and motionless as the parrot. He put out a hand and touched it gently on top of its back. The

“The crowd is nearing the foot of the hill; they are close now and one by one they look at the wom-an in the transparent mac and they nod” (P.5 L.188-189) Alison Moore´s horror story “Eastmouth” (2014) shows that you do not have to include monsters and other supernatural beings to be scary. Instead, Alison Moore excels in creating an eerie mood filled with foreshadowing and small clues to let you know something is truly off in Eastmouth. As we follow the story in Sonia´s, the main char-acter, point of view, we experience the slow build-up and the gradual realization that she is not go-ing home, as if we were there. This is coupled with the other characters who are also seemingly nor-mal, but becomes more and more intrusive as the story moves forward. In the end, we learn that maybe you should not go to a place where someone seems overly eager to take you in and keep you.