Draw conclusions how would you describe torrence’s viewpoint on scary tales? explain how her values, beliefs, and background contribute to the way she thinks about this topic.

Jack Torrance is a writer and former teacher who tries to rebuild his life and family after his alcoholism and explosive temperament cost him his job as a teacher. Having left the drink, he accepts a position as a watchman in a huge hotel in the mountains of Colorado during the winter, hoping that this will save his family, restore his career, and give him the time and privacy to finish writing a work. He moves into the hotel with his family: his wife Wendy and his son Danny, who is telepathically sensitive to supernatural forces. Danny receives help from an imaginary friend named Tony.

Later it is revealed that Jack's father, also an alcoholic, violently abused his family; In a flashback of Jack in the novel, his father pretended to be drunk so he could hit Jack's mother with a cane.