What is the main character’s biggest reason for staying at the Bed and Breakfast? It is the only place in town with a free room. He has heard wonderful things about the Bed and Breakfast from friends. He thinks the landlady is beautiful and hopes to date her.
Q. Why does Billy choose to stay at the bed and breakfast instead of the bell and Dragon as was recommended?
Then Billy thought that a pub, such as The Bell and Dragon, would be more fun with beer and lots of people to talk to in the evenings. The pub would have been cheaper as well. Conclusively, Billy was not able to get back to the pub because the sign had already attracted him to the landlady’s bed and breakfast.
Table of Contents
- Q. Why does Billy choose to stay at the bed and breakfast instead of the bell and Dragon as was recommended?
- Q. What is the one reason Billy does not want to stay at the bed and breakfast?
- Q. Why does Billy think the landlady is a little odd?
- Q. What does the landlady smell like?
- Q. What are 3 examples of foreshadowing in the landlady?
- Q. What is suspicious landlady?
- Q. What does queer mean in the landlady?
- Q. What is a metaphor in the landlady?
- Q. Is Deadly cold a metaphor?
- Q. What figurative language is used in the landlady?
- Q. What kind of person is the landlady?
- Q. Which of the 4 types of conflicts is present in the landlady?
- Q. Why is the landlady compared to a Jack in the Box?
- Q. What crimes did the landlady commit?
- Q. How should the landlady end?
Q. What is the one reason Billy does not want to stay at the bed and breakfast?
What is the one reason Billy does NOT want to stay at the Bed and Breakfast? It looks cozy. It’s cheap. The sign makes him ring the buzzer.
Q. Why does Billy think the landlady is a little odd?
In the short story ‘The Landlady,’ Billy Weaver believes the landlady is a bit odd because she’s very forgetful.
Q. What does the landlady smell like?
Billy notices that the landlady smells like the hospital and pickled almonds. The tea taste like bitter almonds because it was cyanide in it.
Q. What are 3 examples of foreshadowing in the landlady?
Maybe the lady has something to do with hospitals; she might pickle or preserve things. This foreshadows the fact that she has stuffed her parrot and dog. The tea has been poisoned, and Billy will be the landlady’s next victim.
Q. What is suspicious landlady?
The story ‘The Landlady’ centers around a young man named Billy Weaver. The landlady invites him into her peaceful home. Throughout the story, Billy grows suspicious of her overly- optimistic nature and the lack of guests registered within her home, however she insists they are still there.
Q. What does queer mean in the landlady?
The words “queer” and “peculiar” indicate that something is happening beyond Billy’s control. The use of these words suggests should be on alert. The stress on “this stage” suggests that she will probably want to break a law later in the story.
Q. What is a metaphor in the landlady?
“a tide of anger” (p. The narrator uses this metaphor to describe the immense, overwhelming anger that the old man feels after Judson murders his dog. This metaphor also shows the love that the old man has towards his dog.
Q. Is Deadly cold a metaphor?
In the very first paragraph, Dahl uses figurative language to describe the setting of the story, “But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks.” In this sentence, not only does Dahl use a metaphor, he also uses a simile. Along with figurative language, Dahl uses characterization.
Q. What figurative language is used in the landlady?
Quotation | Line # | Type of Figurative Language |
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7. “She looked exactly like the mother of…” | 160-163 | Simile |
8. “Now, the fact that the landlady appeared to be slightly off her rocker…” | 250-252 | Idiom |
9. “…as though the tray were a pair of reins…” | 295-297 | Simile |
10. “In one ear and out the other…” | 328-329 | Idiom |
Q. What kind of person is the landlady?
The story’s antagonist is the unnamed landlady who runs the Bed and Breakfast that Billy chooses to stay in. Although she appears to be sweet, friendly, and generous, the story’s plot twist reveals that she is a cruel woman, or insane, capable of horrifying and wicked crimes.
Q. Which of the 4 types of conflicts is present in the landlady?
In Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady,” the conflict is both man vs. himself and man vs. man, or, in this case, man vs. very creepy old lady who kills handsome young men and stuffs them like trophies.
Q. Why is the landlady compared to a Jack in the Box?
The landlady responds like a jack in the box. It is unusual because he hadn’t even taken his finger off the doorbell and the door swung open. This is strange because she seems to know what Billy is thinking, just as she seems to be expecting him as she opened the door.
Q. What crimes did the landlady commit?
The landlady, Dorothea Montalvo Puente, was convicted of first-degree murder in two of the deaths and of second-degree murder in a third.
Q. How should the landlady end?
The story ends after Billy asks the landlady if anyone else has visited the hotel in the last 2-3 years, then the landlady answers,”Only you.”