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Jack Torrance
John Daniel "Jack" Torrance is a fictional character, the protagonist/main antagonist in the 1977 novel The Shining by Stephen King. He was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the 1980 movie adaptation of the novel, and by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries. The American Film Institute rated the character (as played by Nicholson) the 25th greatest film villain of all time. In 2008, Jack Torrance was selected by Empire Magazine as one of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters. Premiere Magazine also ranked Torrance on their list of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
Jack Torrance is a writer and former teacher whose alcoholism and volatile temper cost him his teaching position at a small preparatory school, and nearly ends his marriage to his wife, Wendy. He gives up drinking after he breaks his son Danny's arm in a drunken rage, and promises Wendy that she can leave him if he ever drinks again. He accepts a position maintaining the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado for the winter, in the hope this will salvage his family, re-establish his career, and give him the time and privacy to finish a promising play. He moves to the hotel with Wendy and Danny, who is telepathic and sensitive to supernatural forces. Danny receives guidance from an imaginary friend he calls "Tony."
It is later revealed that Jack's father, also an alcoholic, was abusive towards his family. A flashback scene in the novel shows his drunk father brutally bashing Jack's mother with a cane.
The Hotel is haunted by the ghosts of those who died violently within it, and is itself host to a being of unknown origin, who wishes to coerce Jack into killing Danny. Apparently, the Hotel believes that if it can harness the boy's "shining", then it can gather enough power to "break free" of the building in which it has somehow become trapped. Jack has encounters with ghosts of previous staff of the hotel, who insist he had always been working there, and must kill his family so he can be promoted to a managerial position. He eventually succumbs to these supernatural forces, as well as his drinking problem, and grows to hate his own wife and child.
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Jack Torrance is a writer and former teacher whose alcoholism and volatile temper cost him his teaching position at a small preparatory school, and nearly ends his marriage to his wife, Wendy. He gives up drinking after he breaks his son Danny's arm in a drunken rage, and promises Wendy that she can leave him if he ever drinks again. He accepts a position maintaining the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado for the winter, in the hope this will salvage his family, re-establish his career, and give him the time and privacy to finish a promising play. He moves to the hotel with Wendy and Danny, who is telepathic and sensitive to supernatural forces. Danny receives guidance from an imaginary friend he calls "Tony."
It is later revealed that Jack's father, also an alcoholic, was abusive towards his family. A flashback scene in the novel shows his drunk father brutally bashing Jack's mother with a cane.
The Hotel is haunted by the ghosts of those who died violently within it, and is itself host to a being of unknown origin, who wishes to coerce Jack into killing Danny. Apparently, the Hotel believes that if it can harness the boy's "shining", then it can gather enough power to "break free" of the building in which it has somehow become trapped. Jack has encounters with ghosts of previous staff of the hotel, who insist he had always been working there, and must kill his family so he can be promoted to a managerial position. He eventually succumbs to these supernatural forces, as well as his drinking problem, and grows to hate his own wife and child.
Links:
Wikipedia
Villains Wiki
Copyright Owner/Official Site
StephenKing.com
Record:
W:
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