Symbols and Tropes
Axe
Killing your family is one thing (one very bad thing), but killing them with an axe and chopping them into little bits is a whole different level of brutality. As Stuart Ullman tells Jack in the op...
The Hedge Maze
Now where would poor Danny Torrance be without the Overlook's famous hedge maze? He'd be in Deadsville, Population: Danny. As Mr. "Information Tool" Ullman says at the beginning of the movie, "This...
Room 237
A lot of the drama and horror of this movie centers on Room 237 at the Overlook Hotel. Danny knows that there's something wrong with the room within an hour after arriving at the hotel, and he asks...