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Jack has encounters with ghosts of previous staff of the hotel, who insist he has always been working there and he must kill his family. Apparently, the Hotel believes if it can harness the boy's 'shining', then it can gather enough power to 'break free' of the building in which it has somehow become trapped. The Hotel is haunted by the ghosts of those who died violently within it and is itself host to a being of unknown origin, who wishes to coerce Jack into killing Danny. A flashback scene in the novel shows his drunk father brutally bashing Jack's mother with a cane. It is later revealed that Jack's father, also an alcoholic, was abusive towards his family. Danny receives guidance from an imaginary friend he calls 'Tony.' Danny is also comforted by meeting the hotel's kindly cook, Dick Hallorann, who shares Danny's telepathic abilities. He moves to the hotel with Wendy and Danny, who is telepathic and sensitive to supernatural forces. He accepts a position maintaining the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado for the winter, hoping this will salvage his family, re-establish his career, and give him the time and privacy to finish a promising play. He finally decides to quit drinking after a drunk driving crash in which he and a friend run over an abandoned bicycle in the road and realize they could've killed a child. Later, his drinking nearly ends his marriage to his wife, Wendy, after he breaks his son Danny's arm in a blind rage.

He is a writer, former teacher, and debate team coach whose alcoholism and volatile temper costs him his teaching position at Stovington Preparatory School, when he assaults George Hatfield, a student and former member of the debate team, whom he catches vandalizing his car. He also has three older siblings: Brett, Becky, and Mike.

Jack grew up in Berlin, New Hampshire, where his father, Mark Torrance, worked in the Regional Community Hospital.

Jack tennesse movie#

Premiere magazine also ranked Torrance on their list of their 100 greatest movie characters of all time. In 2008, Jack Torrance was selected by Empire magazine as one of the 100 greatest movie characters. The American Film Institute rated the character (as played by Nicholson) the 25th-greatest film villain of all time. He was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the novel's 1980 film adaptation, by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries, by Brian Mulligan in the 2016 opera and by Henry Thomas in the 2019 film adaptation of Doctor Sleep. John Daniel Edward 'Jack' Torrance is the main antagonist in Stephen King's horror novel The Shining (1977). Lucy Stone (née Reynolds illegitimate daughter)