He quickly gets drunk, which allows the hotel to possess him more fully. He also meets the ghostly bartender, Lloyd.

One day he goes to the bar of the hotel, previously empty of alcohol, and finds it fully stocked. Jack becomes increasingly unstable, and the sinister ghosts of the hotel gradually begin to overtake him. The hotel has difficulty possessing Danny, so it begins to possess Jack, frustrating his need and desire to work on his play. However, Danny realizes that his presence in the hotel makes it more powerful, and enables it to make objects and situations dangerous that would normally not be dangerous, like topiary animals that come to life. Although Danny is close to his father, he does not tell either of his parents about his visions because he senses that the caretaking job is important to his father and his family's future. Danny has premonitions of the hotel's danger to his family and begins seeing ghosts and frightening visions from the hotel's past, but puts up with them in the hope that they are not dangerous in the present.

The hotel has a personality in its own right, and acts as a psychic lens: It manipulates the living and the dead for its own purposes, and magnifies the psychic powers of any living people who reside there to make them more sensitive to its urgings. The conversation ends with Dick saying to Danny, 'If there is trouble.you give a shout.' Dick warns Danny to avoid Room 217, and reassures him that the things he may see are merely pictures which cannot harm him. Dick informs Danny that he shares Danny's abilities (though to a lesser degree), as did Dick's grandmother, who called it 'shining'. Shortly after the family's initial arrival at the hotel, Danny and the hotel chef, Dick Hallorann, talk privately to discuss Danny's talent and the hotel's sinister nature. Jack's job was provided to him as a last chance by a close friend of his, Al Shockley, a fellow recovering alcoholic, who knows the hotel's board of trustees.ĭanny's clairvoyance makes him sensitive to supernatural forces. Jack, his wife Wendy, and the clairvoyant Danny move into the Overlook. Jack also plans to write a new play, believing the isolation will inspire him.

After losing his teaching position and giving up drinking, Jack accepts a job as a winter caretaker at the large, isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado to prove that he has recovered from alcoholism and is now a responsible person. He is trying to rebuild his life after previously breaking his son Danny's arm and assaulting a pupil at a Vermont prep school where he was a teacher. Jack Torrance, a loving father when sober, is a temperamental alcoholic and aspiring writer.

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