The Landlady by Roald Dahl is a short story about a 17-year-old businessman named Billy Weaver. As Billy is traveling through the city Bath, he is strangely attracted to a Bed and Breakfast hotel. He notices a lot of strange things in the login book and the passion of the landlady stuffing her dead pets. Sometimes people get too close to people at first sight and get deceived. Looks don’t always show someone’s personality.
This is how Billy falls into the landlady's trap. First, when Billy decides to go to Bed and Breakfast by a weird attraction, he asks the landlady about the price. “It was fantastically cheap. It was less than half of what he had been willing to pay.” The landlady was making sure Billy stayed at the Bed and Breakfast. She …show more content…
First, the landlady tells Billy that “there wasn’t a blemish on his body.” Mr. Temple was the landlady's previous customer who is still “...on the third floor…”. Although before that the landlady says “but they were extraordinarily handsome, both of them…”. In that phrase, she uses the word “were” which indicates that either Mr. Temple is dead or he left the hotel, and according to the previous evidence he’s probably dead and stuffed on the third floor. Next, the landlady likes saying the word “dear.” The reason she would say this is to make Billy feel more comfortable with her or more trusted. All of that leads to Billy believing her and taking a cup of tea from her. “...The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds…”, bitter almonds contain cyanide; this is extremely toxic. Once Billy dies from the poison, he’ll most likely be stuffed just like Mr. Temple. From that information, the reader can assume that the landlady has killed Billy Weaver.
Dahl is telling us at the end of the story that you shouldn’t trust someone right away based on their appearances. He talks about little evidence that leads to Billy’s demise. The blemish on Mr. Temple, poisoned tea, the pricing being way too cheap and many other things. He’s not telling us that you should follow that rule, but to keep it in mind. It’s a mistake anyone can make, that is what makes it a
This is how Billy falls into the landlady's trap. First, when Billy decides to go to Bed and Breakfast by a weird attraction, he asks the landlady about the price. “It was fantastically cheap. It was less than half of what he had been willing to pay.” The landlady was making sure Billy stayed at the Bed and Breakfast. She …show more content…
First, the landlady tells Billy that “there wasn’t a blemish on his body.” Mr. Temple was the landlady's previous customer who is still “...on the third floor…”. Although before that the landlady says “but they were extraordinarily handsome, both of them…”. In that phrase, she uses the word “were” which indicates that either Mr. Temple is dead or he left the hotel, and according to the previous evidence he’s probably dead and stuffed on the third floor. Next, the landlady likes saying the word “dear.” The reason she would say this is to make Billy feel more comfortable with her or more trusted. All of that leads to Billy believing her and taking a cup of tea from her. “...The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds…”, bitter almonds contain cyanide; this is extremely toxic. Once Billy dies from the poison, he’ll most likely be stuffed just like Mr. Temple. From that information, the reader can assume that the landlady has killed Billy Weaver.
Dahl is telling us at the end of the story that you shouldn’t trust someone right away based on their appearances. He talks about little evidence that leads to Billy’s demise. The blemish on Mr. Temple, poisoned tea, the pricing being way too cheap and many other things. He’s not telling us that you should follow that rule, but to keep it in mind. It’s a mistake anyone can make, that is what makes it a