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Jack Torrance

Jack Torrance is recorded in 3 distinct storys.

The Shining depicts Jack at his Overlook job interview. Doctor Sleep explicitly recalls Danny’s father, his drinking and his mallet attack at the Overlook. Before the Play, The Shining’s deleted prologue, depicts Jack/Jacky Torrance’s abusive childhood in New Hampshire in 1953. The Shining likewise recalls Jack as Jacky Torrance during childhood. This membership records the prologue relationship, not an unrelated-novel crossover.

Also recorded as Jacky Torrance, John Torrance.

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Before the Play

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The note said: "I wish we had gone to Rome." AND NOW THIS WORD FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE In that long, hot summer of 1953, the summer Jacky Torrance turned 6, his father came home one night from the hospital and broke Jacky's arm. He almost killed the boy. He was drunk.

Before the Play, The Shining’s deleted prologue, depicts Jack/Jacky Torrance’s abusive childhood in New Hampshire in 1953. The Shining likewise recalls Jack as Jacky Torrance during childhood. This membership records the prologue relationship, not an unrelated-novel crossover.

Before the Play ↗By Stephen King
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The prologue explicitly expands the child’s name from Jacky to Jack Torrance during the attack by his father. This is the childhood portrayal of The Shining’s Jack Torrance.

Before the Play ↗By Stephen King

Doctor Sleep

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The hotel was closed for the winter when the accident occurred, and only four people were present. Three survived. The hotel’s off-season caretaker, John Torrance, was killed during an unsuccessful (and heroic) effort to dump the boiler’s steam pressure, which had mounted to disastrously high levels due to an inoperative relief valve.

John Torrance is explicitly Jack, Wendy’s husband and the Overlook caretaker whose death is recounted in Doctor Sleep.

Doctor Sleep ↗By Stephen King
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Jack Torrance swung the mallet that took Dick’s dentures and Wendy’s ability to walk without a hitch in her stride, but they both understood it had really been the …

The narrator recalls Jack’s mallet attack on Dick and Wendy.

Doctor Sleep ↗By Stephen King

The Shining

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CHAPTER ONE JOB INTERVIEW Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.

Jack thinks about Ullman during the Overlook job interview.

The Shining ↗By Stephen King
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“God’s honest.” He squeezed her tightly. “I love you.” She squeezed him back, touched. Those had never been cheap words with John Torrance; she could count the number of times he had said them to her, both before and after marriage, on both her hands. “I love you too.” “Mommy!

John Torrance is explicitly Jack, Wendy’s husband and the Overlook caretaker whose death is recounted in Doctor Sleep.

The Shining ↗By Stephen King