Examples Of Foreshadowing In The Landlady

In Roald Dahl’s realistic fiction story “The Landlady” Billy Weaver is looking for a place to stay while he is visiting a place named Bath. When he decides to stay at a boarding house he meets the landlady. He believes that the landlady is just a harmless old lady, but he later learns that trusting people by how they are on the outside is dangerous. Roald Dahl uses foreshadowing and sensory details to show that trusting someone before knowing them can be dangerous. Impacting Billy Weaver the most, trust is the main issue in “The Landlady”. Because Billy Weaver judges the landlady by how she is on the outside, he puts himself in danger. For example, when he meets the landlady at first he is not suspicious when he should have been. He