Jack Torrance

John Daniel Edward Torrance, also known as Jack Torrance and Johnny, is one of the main characters from The Shining series.
== Charactah Account ==
An aspiring writer who's career has stalled because of his anger issues and his alcoholism, Jack Torrance is torn between the love of his family, and the resentment he feels against them, which he's been trying to bury rather than deal with. One fall, he accepts the job as caretaker at the legendary Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to use the winter isolation to focus on his writing.
Jack has ambitious plans of becoming a critically acclaimed and famous writer in both versions. The Overlook's brainwashing causes him to shift his ordinary ambitions to a desire to join the Overlook's "management", a position that requires him to kill his own family.
Jack really, really wants to make sure Danny has a better childhood than his own, where he was abused relentlessly by his own father. Unfortunately, due to his own failings and the Overlook's influence, he fails and becomes just as much of a monster.
== Appearance ==
=== Literature ===
* Doctor Sleep
* The Shining
=== Movies ===
* Doctor Sleep
* Ready Player One
* The Shining
=== TV Series ===
* The Shining
== Trivia ==
* Stephen King never liked the 1980 movie. His dislike for the movie was used in Ready Player One where the protagonists have to find the answer to the riddle "a creator who hates his own creation".
* In the novel, Jack gets redemption and burns the Overlook Hotel down; in the 1980 film, Jack doesn't get redemption, he simply freezes to death in the hedge maze while attempting to kill his son Danny, dying as a monster.
* Jack is currently the only Stephen King villain to be both the protagonist and antagonist.
* Unlike the novel, Jack's full name, John Daniel Edward Torrance, is never mentioned in the film series, and is only known as Jack Torrance.
* Jack's role was solely switched as the main antagonist of The Shining film, since he was giving more depth than the Overlook Hotel.
* It is possible that Jack could've also had psychic abilities that were repressed alongside the abuse he endured early in his childhood.
* In the sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep, it was revealed that during his days as an English professor, Jack Torrance had an affair with a student and she had a daughter named Lucy. Lucy would go on to have a daughter of her own named Abra, who possessed a more potent version of the Shining. That would make Jack Abra's grandfather, and Danny Lucy's half-brother (and therefore Abra's uncle). His ghost would appear briefly to assist his granddaughter in the climax.
* In The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 5, there is a parody of The Shining titled The Shinning where Homer is driven insane after Mr. Burns and Waylon Smithers cut off the beer supply and Cable TV, causing him to attempt to kill his family similar to Jack. His wife, Marge poses as Wendy Torrance, his son Bart poses as Danny Torrance (who possesses an ability called the Shinning) and Groundskeeper Willie poses as Dick Halloran. This episode was dubbed as the scariest Simpsons Halloween Special.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Jack Torrance at Stephen King Wiki
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