Here's Joycey!okblogeliFebruary 14 2007, 21:18:26 UTC
You're totally onto something with the Shining/Araby connection!
It makes perfect sense too.
The Shining is a coming-of-age tale where Jack Torrance finds out that maybe being the caretaker of an isolated, haunted hotel isn't all it's cut out to be.
Take this exerpt from Araby for example:
"One evening I went into the back drawing-room in which the priest had died. It was a dark rainy evening and there was no sound in the house. Through one of the broken panes I heard the rain impinge upon the earth, the fine incessant needles of water playing in the sodden beds. Some distant lamp or lighted window gleamed below me. I was thankful that I could see so little. All my senses seemed to desire to veil themselves and, feeling that I was about to slip from them, I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: 'O love! O love!' many times."
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It makes perfect sense too.
The Shining is a coming-of-age tale where Jack Torrance finds out that maybe being the caretaker of an isolated, haunted hotel isn't all it's cut out to be.
Take this exerpt from Araby for example:
"One evening I went into the back drawing-room in which the priest had died. It was a dark rainy evening and there was no sound in the house. Through one of the broken panes I heard the rain impinge upon the earth, the fine incessant needles of water playing in the sodden beds. Some distant lamp or lighted window gleamed below me. I was thankful that I could see so little. All my senses seemed to desire to veil themselves and, feeling that I was about to slip from them, I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: 'O love! O love!' many times."
Room 217, anyone?
237 if we're talking about the movie.
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