The Shining | Characters & Character Analysis

The Shining Characters

Jack Torrance

Jack Torrance is a recovering alcoholic whose temper often gets the better of him. The father of a psychic child, Danny, and the husband of a caring but overprotective wife, Wendy, Jack is trying to make a new start as the caretaker of an old hotel in Colorado named "The Overlook." Previously, Jack was fired from a teaching position for hitting a student, and his relationship with his wife, while improving, had nearly ended in divorce after he broke his son's arm. Upon reaching the hotel, however, Jack's newly found improved character traits begin to quickly deteriorate into depression, anger, fury, and thoughts of murder. The hotel is filled with ghosts of the past and as the hotel's power grows stronger, Jack begins to lose his mind. Abused as a child, Jack begins to show more signs of his violent father, and as his mind is completely taken over by...
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