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Perhaps they need a good talking to… if you don't mind my saying so. Perhaps a bit more. My girls, sir, they didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of matches… and tried to burn it down. But I corrected them, sir. And when my wife tried to prevent me from doing my duty, I corrected her.
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~ The Caretaker persuading Jack Torrance to kill his family.
Delbert Grady, better known as the Hotel Caretaker, is the overarching antagonist of Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining, as well as its 1980 film adaptation and its 1997 miniseries adaptation.
He was once a caretaker of the Overlook Hotel who went insane, murdered his family and committed suicide. However, Grady's spirit is haunting the hotel and he manipulates Jack Torrance into what he did to his family.
When Jack Torrance and his family arrives at the Overlook Hotel, his wife Wendy takes their son Danny on a tour through the hotel, in which they meet Dick Halloran. Meanwhile, Jack meets the Hotel managers, and starts his work as the new caretaker whilst also working on his latest novel. However, the managers tell Jack about the former caretaker, who went insane, murdered his family, and committed suicide.
Right after the meeting, Jack starts his work as the caretaker, Danny still meets with Dick, and Wendy wanders through the hotel. Soon afterward, Jack begins to see strange and horrifying visions, which means that the spirit of the former caretaker is in the hotel, and he slowly drives Jack insane. One manifestation of his madness was a bathroom attendant named Lloyd.
His transformation into a lunatic goes even further when he had taken a roque mallet (or the iconic axe in the film), and gone on a murderous rampage, with Dick's fate either being injured in the novel or killed in the film.
Jack's rampage ends once Wendy and Danny defeated him, ultimately defeating the spirit of the caretaker in the process.
Personality[]
The Hotel Caretaker is a diabolical, evil entity. When he was human, he was a loving husband and father, much like Jack, but as he went insane, he murdered his family and himself. In addition to being so murderous and so powerful entity, The Caretaker is also incredibly manipulative as he manages to drive Jack insane.
The Caretaker is nearly impossible to defeat, and the only way and the only thing that can defeat him is none other than Danny Torrance, who is possessing the titular supernatural ability of The Shining.
Trivia[]
Grady has appeared more in the book than he did in the movie, he even appears when Jack destroys the boiler and the hotel, but in the movie, Grady is no were to be seen after Jack freezes to death, living the hotel at standing.