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Indeed, the suggestion that the previous two occupants are together on the fourth floor, an unknown space, and the frustration of the reader in Billy’s inability to piece together their names to what is surely the story of missing persons, is enough to lull the reader into a hopeless yearning for him to return back to the safe, and homely atmosphere of a city pub, which Dahl had described so clemently earlier in the story. ‘beer and darts in the evening s and lots of people to talk to[6].’ In terms of ‘good, straight laced and ‘brisk’ business values however (as Billy was so keen to follow earlier in the story), it seems as if Billy is doing the right thing supporting an old ladies boarding house and going to bed early to prepare for his meeting the next day, and the fact that his positive nature is so obviously destroyed by this mysterious creature is another shocking element.

 

Another interesting feature of this tale in which names seem so very important and are utilized, spelled out and repeated often ‘It’s Weaver Billy said, W-E-A-V-E-R[7]’, is that the landlady remains anonymous throughout the short story. Adding to her mysterious nature, and therefore potentially dehumanised, character, by adding this effect of language, Dahl suggests perhaps an element of the morally defunct demon about her (as he also illustrates so well in the last line of ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’). With the illustrated shift in scenarios, from the acceptable and moreover open cityscape, to the enclosed and terrifying ‘taxidermy world’, overall, ‘The Landlady’ is structured as a descent into oblivion that can be picked up by the audience, but just out of reach of the protagonist.

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