The Landlady By Roald Dahl
The Landlady
“It doesn’t look in the least bit dead.”
In the Landlady by Roald Dahl, the author uses revealing actions to help describe his characters. In the beginning, Billy Weaver was looking for a cheap place to stay and ended up at BED AND BREAKFAST. The landlady welcomed him in, gave him a place to stay, and tea to drink. Billy learns that the landlady couldn’t be trusted but it was too late.
“She was about forty-five or fifty years old, and the moment she saw him, she gave him a warm welcoming smile.” “Please come in,” she said pleasantly. He was about to leave but the desire to follow after her was ‘extraordinarily strong’ and there was something at the window that caught his eye. She charged him five and sixpence a night, including …show more content…
There were no umbrellas, no walking-sticks – nothing.” This shows that there is no one else there but him and the landlady. “The old girl is slightly dotty,” Billy thought but didn’t care since he only had to pay five and sixpence a night. “There were only two other entries above his on the page… One was a Christopher Mulholland from Cardiff. The other was Gregory W. Temple from Bristol.” Billy thought the names were very familiar but couldn’t figure out how he knew …show more content…
When he looked through the window, he thought it was alive but then found out that the landlady had killed it and then stuffed it along with her dachshund (a kind of dog) which is curled up in front of the fireplace. He noticed that the skin underneath was grayish-black, dry and perfectly preserved. He suddenly thought the tea tasted like bitter almonds. (The author implied that it contained cyanide.) “I stuff all my little pets myself when they pass away,” the landlady said. She asked him if he signed the book and then said, “If I happen to forget what you were called, then I can always come down here and look it up.” The author foreshadowed what the landlady was about to do by using the word ‘were’ when she mentioned his name. Billy asked if there were any other guest except Mr. Mulholland and Mr. Temple in the last two or three years which she replied, “No, my dear, ‘Only
“It doesn’t look in the least bit dead.”
In the Landlady by Roald Dahl, the author uses revealing actions to help describe his characters. In the beginning, Billy Weaver was looking for a cheap place to stay and ended up at BED AND BREAKFAST. The landlady welcomed him in, gave him a place to stay, and tea to drink. Billy learns that the landlady couldn’t be trusted but it was too late.
“She was about forty-five or fifty years old, and the moment she saw him, she gave him a warm welcoming smile.” “Please come in,” she said pleasantly. He was about to leave but the desire to follow after her was ‘extraordinarily strong’ and there was something at the window that caught his eye. She charged him five and sixpence a night, including …show more content…
There were no umbrellas, no walking-sticks – nothing.” This shows that there is no one else there but him and the landlady. “The old girl is slightly dotty,” Billy thought but didn’t care since he only had to pay five and sixpence a night. “There were only two other entries above his on the page… One was a Christopher Mulholland from Cardiff. The other was Gregory W. Temple from Bristol.” Billy thought the names were very familiar but couldn’t figure out how he knew …show more content…
When he looked through the window, he thought it was alive but then found out that the landlady had killed it and then stuffed it along with her dachshund (a kind of dog) which is curled up in front of the fireplace. He noticed that the skin underneath was grayish-black, dry and perfectly preserved. He suddenly thought the tea tasted like bitter almonds. (The author implied that it contained cyanide.) “I stuff all my little pets myself when they pass away,” the landlady said. She asked him if he signed the book and then said, “If I happen to forget what you were called, then I can always come down here and look it up.” The author foreshadowed what the landlady was about to do by using the word ‘were’ when she mentioned his name. Billy asked if there were any other guest except Mr. Mulholland and Mr. Temple in the last two or three years which she replied, “No, my dear, ‘Only