I’m sorry, but no (?)
By Sorry to interrupt your Sunday evening with this little trifle of a post, but is this author just dreadfully wrong (about “The Shining”)?
He posits that Jack is ultimately a sympathetic character, just a fatally-flawed guy who’s struggling with his demons. Granted it’s been a long time, but I remember Jack Torrance as a character who desperately wants to think of himself as good, but who really, deep down, just isn’t. Jack Torrance came across– to me– as the ultimate bullshitter, and the way I recall things, there was no one he bullshitted more than himself.
Am I crazy?