Roald Dahl's The Land Lady

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The story The Land Lady, by Roald Dahl is a chilling short story that will leave chills running down your spine. The story is about a man that got distracted by a bed and breakfast sign in a window which made him make a gigantic mistake. He was greeted by a "lovely, nice and welcoming" landlady that insisted he stay at her hotel, but his mistake was listening to her. He was blinded by her sweetness that he didn't see all the signals telling him he needs to run for the hills. This story gives us an important lesson to not judge a book by its cover, because not everything is as it seems. Early on in the story a man named Billy needed to stay at a hotel in England, but wasn't expecting to pay much. He took advice from a nice man to go to the bell and dragon inn. On the way he noticed a bed and breakfast sign in a small little building window that caught his eye. He was going back and forth about where to stay. Billy had made his decision, he decided to stay in the small little bed and breakfast. Little did he know that the landlady was waiting for him to make his decision right on the other …show more content…

That night Billy and the Landlady were talking on the couch drinking tea. They were talking about other visitors that had stayed at her hotel. There were only two other names, but they weren't just names, Billy had heard them before, they were on the tip of his tongue, but he just couldn't remember. When they were on the couch talking about the other visitors, the landlady had made it seem like she had examined their bodies. When describing the two visitors, the author wrote, "not a blemish on his body" (5) and "his skin was just like a baby's." (5) It finally got to Billy, the lady was insane. Then Billy started thinking about things in a different perspective, but the landlady was one step ahead of him. He took s sip of his tea, then the mystery all came

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