The next day, the man wakes up to find that he is downstaires and out of the haunted room. He realises that the old people were right and that there are ghots in the room. He admits that he was vary scared and also realises that he was wrong and that the old people were right.
The Landlady is a story written by Roald Dahl. It is about a seventeen year old boy called Billy Weaver who needs a place to stay in for one night in Bath. He looks around at many places to stay such as a pub but he chooses to stay at a simple bed and breakfast place.
When he is about to ring the doorbell of the bed and breakfast place, the door opens. He is greeted by a ;ady ho is around 45 to 50 years old. She seems very pleasent to Billy and offers him a room to stay at a very cheap price. At first Billy does notice that the woman is a bit strange but he does not mind because he gets offered a very cheap place to stay.
After he settles into his room, he sign the guest book. He notices that before him there have only been two guests of which he had heard of them. He had read their names in newspapers and he thought that they were very famous. Also, they had come around 2-3 years ago.
The landlady gives Billy some tea and biscuits to eat. She also tells Billy that both the previous guests are staying on the third floor. She begins to describe the skin of one of the guests. She also says that one the guests had no mark on his body which to Billy seems very strange.
Billy asks the landlady about the parrot and the dog which seem alive but are not. She explains that they were once alive. Billy just keeps drinking his tea which he thinks tastes like bitter almonds. Billy asks her about her place and she explains to him that there have only been three guests at the bed and breakfast including him.
I think the title The Red Room makes me think of a horrible room filled with evil. Also the title makes me think of a room filled with blood everywhere. However, the title The Landlady makes me think of a wicked, evil and a witch like landlady.
I think that the more interesting title from both stories is The Red Room. This is because
Both stories have different openings. The Red Room starts off with a conversation in which the story begins. We see the narrator of the story talking to the two old people. The narrator reveals his character in the first paragraph when he says "it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me ". This shows the narrator as being an arrogant, big headeaded and also brave.
I think that the slow beginning builds up the tension of the story. The reader is more aware of what is happeninig and also able to predict what is going to happen next in the story.
However, the story "The Landlady" begins with narrator of the story describing the weather and the main character. The narrator describes the setting of the story as being a very cold, dark winter night. "The air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks" The narrator also describes the main character, Billy Weaver as being a teenager all alone in Bath.
Also, as Billy walks around the town, the narrator describes as being deserted. "There were no shops on this wide street". This also builds up the tension of the story. The Landlady, has a smaller, less completecated and confusing opening which keeps the reader following the story and does not confuse or bore it.
