the landlady

tHE landlady

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PLOT

Billy Weaver travels alone to Bath on business and decides to stay in an initially cozy-seeming boarding house, where he is the only guest. The boarding house’s landlady explains that she has only ever had two other guests, whose names Billy recognizes as those of young men who disappeared. After serving him a strange-tasting cup of tea and complimenting his looks, the landlady ominously tells Billy that her former guests are still there and reveals that she is a skilled taxidermist.

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SPACE AND TIME

The place where the story takes place is a boarding-house, a Bed & Breakfast.

The story is set in Bath, in the south of England at 9 o'clock in the evening. The sky was clear and full of stars but the air was deadly cold.

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CHARACTERS

BILLY WEAVER

THE LANDLADY

CHRISTOPHER MULHOLLAND

GREGORY W. TEMPLE

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LANGUAGE AND MORE

CLIMAX

LANGUAGE -neutral -mixed vocabulary, with the alternation of advanced words and expression and informal ones -full of description and figurative language

Incident: -Billy actually going inside the landlady's house forced by a "supernatural" urge almost as if he was meant to go there. Rising action: -the landlady having a room ready for Billy indicating that she was waiting for him Rising tension: -weird way in which the landlady acts -only two people have ever booked a room at the house. Climax of the story: -stuffed animals -the tea tasted a bit like almonds (indicating a cyanide poison)

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