The Landlady Theme Essay
In the story, “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl, the theme views how the characters and symbols shows that people should not easily trust strangers just by their appearance, because it may be vastly different than their personality in reality.
To begin with, the characters of this story emphasizes the theme which is if one trusts strangers easily based on the outer self, they may find themselves in trapped consequences. First of all, Billy Weaver denies of his own suspicions in both disguises of the landlady and the boarding house, that allows ‘them’ to delude him further on. Billy Weaver insists that the old landlady has been just an overly sincere person because of the way she welcomes him into the boarding house, how she prepares the bed ready …show more content…
To start with, the tea features of how easily the old landlady murders the two residents that has stayed in the boarding house with no other visitors until Billy appears because in the novel, the old landlady will time to time offer Billy a cup of tea to drink, even after he refuses to. Specifically, the tea also represents how easily it allows the old landlady avoids questions from Billy in exposing evidence of ““and then all of a sudden ...” “Milk?” she said. “And sugar?” “Yes, please. And then all of a sudden ...””, that may have unmasks her dark nature (Dahl 360). Therefore, the tea tricks Billy into thinking that it is just another cup of tea she is offering because in the beginning of the novel, he recalls how he needs to have a good night's rest before he goes to the head office the very next morning. Let alone, the old lady keeps on convincing Billy to allow himself to have more tea, which he then forgets his main goal and the landlady easily manipulates him by him continuously believing that she is just having an innocent and pure presence. ““Mr Mulholland was a great one for his tea,” she said at length” where she compares similarly drinking tea with the previous resident, Christopher Mulholland, like how she is drinking tea with Billy now, but, “Never in my life have I seen anyone drink as much tea as dear, sweet Mr Mulholland”” (Dahl 380). Therefore, the old landlady must have put poison in the previous two residents’ tea when they were drinking it because she still claims that Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple were still living on the third floor, even though they both signs out the book 2-3 years ago. In that case, the tea signifies as the landlady’s weapon because viewing the tea as objects that are elegant and nice like how the landlady’s actions
To begin with, the characters of this story emphasizes the theme which is if one trusts strangers easily based on the outer self, they may find themselves in trapped consequences. First of all, Billy Weaver denies of his own suspicions in both disguises of the landlady and the boarding house, that allows ‘them’ to delude him further on. Billy Weaver insists that the old landlady has been just an overly sincere person because of the way she welcomes him into the boarding house, how she prepares the bed ready …show more content…
To start with, the tea features of how easily the old landlady murders the two residents that has stayed in the boarding house with no other visitors until Billy appears because in the novel, the old landlady will time to time offer Billy a cup of tea to drink, even after he refuses to. Specifically, the tea also represents how easily it allows the old landlady avoids questions from Billy in exposing evidence of ““and then all of a sudden ...” “Milk?” she said. “And sugar?” “Yes, please. And then all of a sudden ...””, that may have unmasks her dark nature (Dahl 360). Therefore, the tea tricks Billy into thinking that it is just another cup of tea she is offering because in the beginning of the novel, he recalls how he needs to have a good night's rest before he goes to the head office the very next morning. Let alone, the old lady keeps on convincing Billy to allow himself to have more tea, which he then forgets his main goal and the landlady easily manipulates him by him continuously believing that she is just having an innocent and pure presence. ““Mr Mulholland was a great one for his tea,” she said at length” where she compares similarly drinking tea with the previous resident, Christopher Mulholland, like how she is drinking tea with Billy now, but, “Never in my life have I seen anyone drink as much tea as dear, sweet Mr Mulholland”” (Dahl 380). Therefore, the old landlady must have put poison in the previous two residents’ tea when they were drinking it because she still claims that Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple were still living on the third floor, even though they both signs out the book 2-3 years ago. In that case, the tea signifies as the landlady’s weapon because viewing the tea as objects that are elegant and nice like how the landlady’s actions