The LandLady
“The Landlady” Personal Response
In this short story “The Landlady” written by Roald Dahl, it is about a young 17 year old boy, named Billy, who is travelling by himself, and he has a set place in mind where to stay the night, but comes across a very cheap bed and breakfast place, that seems decent for one night. The bed and breakfast is run by an elder lady, who seems loving and kind, but we are later shown how she is strange and does very weird things.
Once it became obvious that the lady was trying to kill Billy, it made me feel sick. I felt like this because she had no reason to kill him, and how she had planned it by, slowly killing him with tea. We slowly understand that she is killing him, when two other men are mentioned, in the log book. I found it weird when I read that she had only two other men come and stay at her bed and breakfast during two years. I think the lady must have been very ill, or just plain crazy, to even have thoughts to kill innocent men, and then to ‘stuff them’. I don’t understand how she came up with this idea either.
It also made me feel anxious with her being so secretive about killing him. Billy had recognised the names of the other two men in her log book from somewhere, but couldn’t figure out where from. I came to the conclusion that he would of recognised them from being on the news, when she would have previously killed them. She welcomes Billy in very welcoming, and it seems like nothing is going on, until she offers the first cup of tea. She says to Billy “You see, it isn’t very often I get the pleasure of taking a visitor in to my little nest”. This connects with her only having two other visitors in the past two years. She is not what she seems, which connects to today. We have people who live in our world, who set themselves up to be someone, who they really aren’t, which is what “The Landlady” was doing. She was pretending to be an innocent, sweet elderly women, when really she was a devious, crazy old
In this short story “The Landlady” written by Roald Dahl, it is about a young 17 year old boy, named Billy, who is travelling by himself, and he has a set place in mind where to stay the night, but comes across a very cheap bed and breakfast place, that seems decent for one night. The bed and breakfast is run by an elder lady, who seems loving and kind, but we are later shown how she is strange and does very weird things.
Once it became obvious that the lady was trying to kill Billy, it made me feel sick. I felt like this because she had no reason to kill him, and how she had planned it by, slowly killing him with tea. We slowly understand that she is killing him, when two other men are mentioned, in the log book. I found it weird when I read that she had only two other men come and stay at her bed and breakfast during two years. I think the lady must have been very ill, or just plain crazy, to even have thoughts to kill innocent men, and then to ‘stuff them’. I don’t understand how she came up with this idea either.
It also made me feel anxious with her being so secretive about killing him. Billy had recognised the names of the other two men in her log book from somewhere, but couldn’t figure out where from. I came to the conclusion that he would of recognised them from being on the news, when she would have previously killed them. She welcomes Billy in very welcoming, and it seems like nothing is going on, until she offers the first cup of tea. She says to Billy “You see, it isn’t very often I get the pleasure of taking a visitor in to my little nest”. This connects with her only having two other visitors in the past two years. She is not what she seems, which connects to today. We have people who live in our world, who set themselves up to be someone, who they really aren’t, which is what “The Landlady” was doing. She was pretending to be an innocent, sweet elderly women, when really she was a devious, crazy old