![]() “Seclusion can be damaging,” Ullman says to Jack and shows him to the basement to meet Watson, the maintenance man.Īs Watson familiarizes Jack with the furnace and the boiler, Jack thinks about what Ullman said about losing his temper. Grady was a drunk, and while he was alone at the hotel with his wife and two young daughters, he went crazy and killed his family and himself. Ullman doesn’t look convinced and tells Jack about the previous winter caretaker, a man named Grady. ![]() Plus, Jack will have time to work on the play he is writing. Jack hasn’t had a drink in over a year, and his family-his wife, Wendy, and their five-year-old son, Danny-are looking forward to spending the winter together at the hotel. ![]() ![]() Jack assures Ullman that he won’t be sorry. Ullman knows all about Jack’s history-about his alcoholism and how he “lost his temper” at his job back in Vermont and got fired-and if it weren’t for Al Shockley, Jack’s friend and an important man on the Overlook Hotel’s Board of Directors, Ullman would never hire Jack as the hotel’s winter caretaker. Jack Torrance looks across the desk at Stuart Ullman and thinks he looks like an “officious little prick.” Although, to be fair, Jack would likely hate anyone given the circumstances of the job interview. ![]()
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