The Landlady Ronald Dahl Analysis
In the short story The Landlady by Ronald Dahl, a young man named Billy Weaver is traveling alone for business and is looking for a place to stay. As he's walking down the road, the sign catches his eye and it said “BED AND BREAKFAST,” He walks up to the door and knocked, She immediately let him in. She welcomed him and was in his personal space constantly and talkative with him and kept a conversation all the time. She started telling him more intimate details about everything he could do and how everything went. He thought it was kinda weird that there was no one else but him there and its only been him there in lot of years. In this story, Billy Weaver trusts the landlady and thinks she is very nice, but he started questioning her and who she is. People are not always as they seem and he should have trusted his instinct. Early on in the story Billy Weaver was walking down the road trying to find somewhere to stay for the duration of his business trip and he saw a sign of a
…show more content…
Lastly, after he arrives and settles and it begins to get to night they were sitting down stairs and he started feeling more uncomfortable. Dahl writes “For half a minute or so, neither of them spoke. But Billy knew that she was looking at him. Her body was half-turned towards him, and he could feel her eyes resting on his face, watching him over the rim of the tea cup. Now and again, he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell that seemed to emanate directly from her person.” He thought this seemed weird. He felt uncomfortable with all this, she was checking him out and talking about different peoples bodies and the grim she was giving him at his face and his body made him feel uncomfortable. She implied that she had seen his whole body, she was talking about how he didn’t have any blemishes on his body. With the stares then him talking about it should’ve made him query all of this and it started confusing him. He got a little
Lastly, after he arrives and settles and it begins to get to night they were sitting down stairs and he started feeling more uncomfortable. Dahl writes “For half a minute or so, neither of them spoke. But Billy knew that she was looking at him. Her body was half-turned towards him, and he could feel her eyes resting on his face, watching him over the rim of the tea cup. Now and again, he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell that seemed to emanate directly from her person.” He thought this seemed weird. He felt uncomfortable with all this, she was checking him out and talking about different peoples bodies and the grim she was giving him at his face and his body made him feel uncomfortable. She implied that she had seen his whole body, she was talking about how he didn’t have any blemishes on his body. With the stares then him talking about it should’ve made him query all of this and it started confusing him. He got a little