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Throughout the passage, the shift in the physical description of the landlady does impact the story's meaning. At first, when you hear what the landlady looks like, you'll think that she's not at all "wrong in the head", but as you progress through the story, the landlady morphs into a detrimental woman. When Billy sees the landlady at the start, he thinks that she " looked exactly like the mother of one’s best school-friend welcoming one into the house to stay for the Christmas holidays (29)". He basically thinks that she's just a kind woman who won't do him any harm. Later, "he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell that seemed to emanate26 directly from her person. It was not in the least unpleasant, and it reminded him — well, he wasn’t quite sure what it reminded him of. Pickled walnuts? New leather? Or was it the corridors of a hospital? (78)". He thought that she was "dotty", but he didn't care, nor does he really pay any close attention to how she acted or looked. All he thought was since she invited him to a place to stay for a good amount of money, she was welcoming and inviting, therefore, he assumed that she was innocent and not at all "wrong in the head". In the beginning, we all thought that this was going to be an innocent story where Billy enters a house and a landlady allows him to stay there. The landlady would mind her own business and be polite and Billy would be safe and just be there for a tiny bit, all happy and everything would be just fine. But no. As the story reveals more, it gets more twisted and dark. The landlady turns out to be purposefully poisoning Billy with tea and probably stuffing him later. All things will turn for a deadly end.
The above question is about the short story ‘the landlady’ written by Roald Dahl. It is a story about a young man by the name of Billy who travelled from London to Bath and there he meets with a middle-aged woman.
The shift in the physical description of the landlady throughout the passage impacts the story's meaning as can be seen below:
• No one could have imagined her as a killer because her physical appearance was nice and she looked like a normal lady and the author describes her as an old woman with a warm, welcoming smile.
• He also described her as having a round pink face and gentle blue eyes.
• As we go further into the story, we see that the landlady slowly morphs into a detrimental woman.
• Billy notices that there were no other names in the guest book and she acted like she knew he was coming.
• He also discovers that her pets were also stuffed.
• We discover that she is a taxidermist and she stuffed her own animals.
• We also notice that she had a desire to stuff people too, just like animals.
• It turns out that the landlady was purposefully poisoning Billy with tea, maybe to stuff him later.
The story took a dark and more twisted turn towards the end and what seemed as an innocent story turned into something scary.
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