What gift did Jack give to Danny that Wendy wasn't happy about?

By Stephen King
Wendy bought Danny a model car kit, a prize for his continuing progress in learning to read. Jack tells Danny he has a present for him, too. Wendy and Jack watch Danny climb the steps to go look for the gift. Jack and Wendy talk about how happy they are here at the Overlook.
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Was Danny abused in The Shining?

Danny has been sexually abused by Jack.
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Did Jack Torrance have the shine?

Jack and Danny Torrance Both Have the Shining in Kubrick's Film.
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What did Wendy do when Jack was choking her?

He says he's needs to teach her a lesson, and then he begins choking her. She could go for the knife, but it slips her mind. She tries to get Jack's hands off her throat.
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What was the bear thing in The Shining?

Similar to the Beetle switch, however, the bear was actually a dog in the novel. Kubrick opted not to go further into the backstory, instead, he used the scene as just another building block in his nerve-wracking Jenga tower of tension. Check out Rob Ager's video below for further analysis of Kubrick's famous scene.
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Why is Room 237 haunted in The Shining?

The room was inhabited in the past, by a Lorraine Massey who would usually seduce young bellboys who would visit her room. One time Danny Torrance visited this room after a ball strangely rolled to him from its open doors. Later, he claimed that a "crazy woman" tried to strangle him.
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Why did Danny write Redrum?

Danny even manages to anticipate what is about to happen by writing “redrum” on the bathroom door because this is where the murder will take place. The separation of Danny's alter ego voices into manifestations of Tony and Jack, through the presence / absence of his wagging finger, fits very well throughout the film.
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Did Jack strangled Danny in The Shining?

Combine this with the revelation that it was Jack who strangled Danny in the Overlook and a simple truth is revealed … Jack Torrance was and still is a violently abusive father. No wonder little Danny was afraid to go to the hotel and had nightmares about what was coming.
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Why is Tony called Tony in The Shining?

Tony (his name taken from Danny's middle name, Anthony), is at first to Danny an imaginary playmate, then a source of fear, and finally a source of strength. Towards the end of the novel Tony reveals himself to Danny: "'Danny ... you're in a place deep down in your own mind.
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Why is Danny called doc in The Shining?

Thanks to his abilities (and a cat who seems to know when someone in the building is about to die), Dan is able to help dying patients pass on into the next world with peace and comfort. His knack for always being around when a patient dies earns him the nickname Doctor Sleep - Doc, for short.
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Why did Jack go insane in The Shining?

The evil spirits that inhabited the Overlook Hotel would eventually drive Jack insane by way of drowning him in his alcoholism, past trauma, and fears of becoming as abusive as his father.
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Is Rose the hat human?

Rose O'Hara, also better known as Rose the Hat, is the main antagonist of Stephen King's 2013 novel Doctor Sleep and its 2019 film adaptation of the same name. She is a sorceress and the semi-immortal leader of a nomadic tribe of quasi-demonic vampires known as the "True Knot".
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Why does Jack say here's Johnny?

Jack Nicholson ad-libbed the line "Here's Johnny!" in imitation of announcer Ed McMahon's famous introduction of Johnny Carson on U.S. network NBC-TV's long-running late night television program The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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Who is the man in the bear suit in The Shining?

Roger isn't mentioned in the 1980 film, but the character being depicted in the gay liaison who is dressed in a bear costume may be a throwback to this scene, Wendy is the one who witnesses the sexual activity between the two men in the film.
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Is The Shining sexist?

According to Cheatsheet and a number of other portals like BBC and Rolling Stone, writer Stephen King called the movie a misogynistic portrayal of women. King further backed his statement by saying that Wendy in the film only exists to do stupid things and scream from time to time.
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Who was the woman in Room 237?

Lia Beldam is best known for playing the super sexy babe in the bathtub in room 237 -- whose flesh rots off while in Jack's arms -- in the Stanley Kubrick's 1980 masterpiece "The Shining." Guess what ...
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Who possesses Danny in The Shining?

DANNY TORRANCE: Tony is a little boy that lives in my mouth. Danny's possession by Tony includes his soft-spoken voice deepening with some harsh gloom and a bouncing puppetry pointer finger.
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What was wrong with Danny in The Shining?

Stephen King said he had been asked what happened to Danny Torrance after the events of The Shining, and he decided to write its sequel Doctor Sleep, which portrays Danny as an adult. In the novel, the adult Dan Torrance is depicted as an alcoholic drifter who is haunted by the memory of his father.
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Why was room 217 changed to 237?

Kubrick agreed to change the infamous room number from 217 to 237 (which does not exist) in the movie because the hotel was worried people would not want to stay in the room in the future. Ironically, room 217 is most often requested at Timberline Lodge, according to the hotel's website.
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What does the woman in the bathtub mean in The Shining?

The old woman rising from the bathtub represents Jack waking up from his nap as an ugly, evil person, and the shot only comes late in the scene because Danny only realizes too late that he was fooled by his father's reassuring demeanor.
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Was Jack a ghost in The Shining?

Interestingly, in the 1997 Shining miniseries, which King himself wrote, there's a brief epilogue in which a graduating Danny is visited by the ghost of Jack, beaming with pride, suggesting that Jack's spirit was fully freed when the Overlook blew up.
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Is The Shining Based on a true story?

The Shining was a fictional tale but the setting was inspired by the true hauntings within Colorado's Stanley Hotel. Stephen King's The Shining book was the basis for Stanley Kubrick's 1980 masterpiece film.
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What does the boy in The Shining say?

In The Shining, Jack feverishly types "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over. Here's the proverb's meaning and origin explained.
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Is Doctor Sleep Related To The Dark Tower?

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There are a few homages to The Dark Tower throughout Doctor Sleep, but the more easy to catch ones are the names of background companies. These are explicit references to King's magnum opus. The first is the name of the bus company that Dan Torrance rides into Frazier, Tet Transit.
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