The landlady is a short story written by Ronald Dahl in 1959. The story is about a 17-year-old boy named Billy Weaver. Billy is on a business trip to England in a city named Bath. The Landlady is a kind middle-aged woman, but is she really what she seems to be? But Billy is naive, so he drops the thought and keeps being friendly to the lady. The main theme in this story is “do not judge a book by its cover” and “nothing is what it seems”. So, in this Analytical essay will the focus be on setting and characterization and foreshadowing.
Billy is trying to find a place to settle down for the next morning to report to the office. Billy asks the porter at the station if he knows any good places. But when he gets there, something else caught his attention. He chooses to go to a little boarding-house where a parrot shouts “bed and breakfast”. After some time, the landlady asks him to sign the guestbook. But two names just seem too familiar. He struggles to remember where he had seen the names, and when he finally does. It is too late.
The boarding-house has a warm and welcome feeling at first. Outside where the sign with BED AND BREAKFAST. In the window there is a tall, beautiful and yellow chrysanthemums vase. And besides the vase, are green curtains. The fireplace is on and a dachshund lies peacefully in front of it. The room is filled with furniture, a baby-piano, a big sofa and some armchairs. In the corner, there is a cage with a parrot in it. As a result, when Billy realized the animals were not alive but stuffed, the house does not feel as warm and welcoming as before, but colder and feels wrong.
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