Who strangled Danny in The Shining?
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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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We identified in previous chapters that Jack strangled Danny in the fatherly love scene and with these new details it would seem that he also sexually abused his son during this event..
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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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If you haven't worked it out yet, Redrum is a palindrome of murder and after it's scrawled on the door in The Shining, Danny's mother notices that in the mirror, redrum actually reads murder. If Danny's mother hadn't woken up in the scene above, the young boy almost certainly would've killed her in The Shining.
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