Antagonist

Character Role Analysis

Jack Torrance

Oh Jack. You could have been such a great protagonist. Too bad you lost your mind.

But that's okay, because you also make an incredible villain. The way you sink into insanity and try to murder your family makes it so easy to cheer against you. But at the same time, every villain needs to be someone we admire a little bit, and there's a charm to you that makes you kind of likeable even as your chopping your way through a door and yelling, "Here's Johnny!"