'The Landlady' by Roald Dahl

To begin, Dahl used the outside of the bed and breakfast as a use of

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 text is very descriptive and loaded with symbols. The author takes the opportunity to relate elements of setting with symbols with meanings beyond the first reading’s impressions. The house that the characters rent for the summer as well as the surrounding scenery are introduced right from the beginning. It is an isolated house, situated "quite three miles from the village"(947); this location suggests an isolated environment. Because of its "colonial mansion"(946) look, and its age and state of degradation, of the house, a supernatural hypothesis is implied: the place is haunted by ghosts. This description also suggests stability, strength, power and control. It symbolizes the patriarchal oriented society of the author’s time. The image of a haunted house is curiously superimposed with light color elements of setting: a "delicious garden"(947), "velvet meadows"(950), "old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees"(948) suggest bright green. The room has "air and sunshine galore"(947), the garden is "large and shady"(947) and has "deep-shaded arbors"(948). The unclean yellow of the wallpaper is

During "The Landlady", Billy Weaver is presented with a predicament in which he must decide where to stay for the night. The bed and breakfast in which he chose was unfamiliar to him, so he decided not to reside there. However, since The Landlady had already used her precognition to know when Billy

The landlady, seemingly is cheerful and pleasant is also demented. She lures her customers to her bed and breakfast offers tea. Tea has a “pickled walnut” taste, which implies is cyanide. Due to cyanide poisoning, she murders her customers to be stuffed into human dolls. Within the short stories, both protagonists portray delusional thoughts,

There are numerous hints in the story that prove that the landlady is eccentric. Even Billy himself stated that the landlady is slightly dotty. When Billy says that he expected the place to be swamped by applicants. She replies “Oh, I am, my dear, I am, of course I am. But the trouble is that I'm inclined to be just a teeny weeny bit choosy and particular – if you see what I mean.” In this text, it can be seen that Billy perfectly fits into the landlady’s category. This point can be enhanced even more when she says “But I’m always ready. Everything is always ready day and night in this house just on the off-chance that an acceptable young gentleman will come along. And it is such a pleasure, my dear, such a very great pleasure when now and

In the short story “ The Landlady” the author Roald Dahl Billy’s thoughts really revealed a lot of things about his character. One of the things that reveals Billy’s character is that he isn’t wealthy Billy says “Excuse me , “ he said , “ but is there a fairly cheap hotel not far away from here?” He was also very shocked and happy about the price of the bed and breakfast because it was really cheap and the lady was willing to lower it if it was too much , Billy said Five and sixpence is fine, “ he answered “ I should like very much to stay here.” Billy also likes to kind’ve jump into conclusions it seems like since he said “ I should've thought you’d be simply swamped with applicants,” he said politely. Also he might’ve said this since she

The Landlady, of about fifty years welcomed Billy to stay. The old woman takes Billy up to his room, then offers him dinner, which Billy refuses. The landlady then adds that he must go downstairs and sign the guest book, because it is the law. He found the guest book and signed it, noticing that there were only two entries before his, Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple. As the landlady walks into the room carrying a large silver tea tray Billy is thinking where he had heard the two names in the guest book before.

I believe the Landlady is stealthy because in the text it says, “the tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds, and i didn’t much care for it” (pg.20 Dahl), which suggests that the landlady is stealthy this is because the amount of time it took and practice that was done so cautiously that it would have be hard not to let billy see or hear anything that she had done to the tea not only that but the fact that billy did not notice anything about the tea was exceptionally stealthy but don’t forget as well she avoided billy to get into the kitchen and put the cyanide in the tea which she could have disguised as almond extract

On the other hand, Gilman uses a big, beautiful house as a setting. Her character is trapped inside the "haunted house" despite the fact that she suffers from a mental illness. She is stuck in a vacation home that is "well back from the road, quite three miles from the village" (Gilman 182). The house makes her feel so strange that she cries all day, but not at night for her husband is there: "[she cries] at nothing, and [cries] most of the time" (Gilman186). She does not like her room a bit at first because of "the yellow wallpaper." She wants to get out and wishes "John would take [her] away from [that room]" (187). She is trapped in that room for three months until she gets herself out.

This shows that the Landlady is enjoying Billy’s present. While some old lady’s would have felt uncomfortable

First part of the story billy was looking for a place to stay when he came along the “Bed and breakfast” and decided to stay because it was up his price range, he was the only one staying, and the lady who owned it aka the ‘Landlady’ was so convincing he didn’t believe she could possibly hurt anything or anyone. The text says “She was about forty-five or fifty years old, and the moment she saw him, she gave him a warm, welcoming smile.” “She seemed terribly nice.” This quote is telling the readers that Billy believed she is/was nice and welcoming and when billy said “she seemed terribly nice” you can tell that she is very convincing. The second paragraph will be about the Landlady and what/how she could say something in a way to make everyone

Roald Dahl crests a story called the landlady, in this story a man goes to a bed an breakfast, he stays the night but never leaves after the lady drugs him and he dies. She then stuffs him and keeps his body in the house like the other men.

Billy was now worried, he wanted to run, but he couldn't. Suddenly, everything was spinning, and then everything went dark. He woke up in a dungeon like room with cement walls and cement flooring. There was a small iron door on the right side of the room. In the center was a coffee table surrounded by chairs and couches. He recognized it almost instantly. It looked like the landlady's house, but it was different. As he inspected the room, he saw two stuffed parrots, two stuffed dogs, and...

Billy finished the toast and the tea, even though it tasted weird, and went to find the landlady. He called for her and before he finished saying her name she appeared in the doorway. “ Thank you for feeding me, giving me a bed, and being nice to me. I will pay you