Watson (Overlook maintenance man)

This made him think of Watson, the caretaker at the Overlook, who had first shown the hotel’s untrustworthy furnace boiler to his father. You have to watch it, Watson had said. Because she creeps. But in the end, Jack Torrance had forgotten. It was the reason Dan was still alive.

Dan remembers the Overlook caretaker who showed Jack the boiler.

Where the action is, so to speak.” “Watson will show you all that. The basement floor plan is on the boiler room wall.” He frowned impressively, perhaps to show that as manager, he did not concern himself with such mundane aspects of the Overlook’s operation as the boiler and the plumbing.

Present maintenance man, grandson of Robert Townley Watson; the novel never supplies his first name.

Here’s this woman, must be sixty fuckin years old—my age!—and her hair’s dyed just as red as a whore’s stoplight, tits saggin just about down to her belly button on account of she ain’t wearin no brassy-ear, big varycoarse veins all up and down her legs so they look like a couple …

Maintenance man gives his own age as 60 while describing dead woman; has worked here lifelong, as did his father.