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Mr. Mulholland was one of the landlady’s previous guests and victims. Throughout the story, it becomes clear that he checked into the landlady’s Bed and Breakfast several years ago and has been missing ever since. The story implies that his disappearance was reported far and wide in the newspapers, which is how Billy became familiar with his name. The landlady describes how both Christopher and Gregory—another one of her victims—never left the Bed and Breakfast, and how they are still “on the fourth floor, both of them together” (implying that she killed and stuffed them, just as she did with her pets). This confuses and surprises Billy, because he thought that he was the only guest, but it doesn’t yet cause Billy to suspect that the landlady might have been responsible for their disappearances.
Christopher Mulholland Quotes in The Landlady
The The Landlady quotes below are all either spoken by Christopher Mulholland or refer to Christopher Mulholland. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks.
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“Well, you see, both of these names—Mulholland and Temple—I not only seem to remember each one of them separately, so to speak, but somehow or other, in some peculiar way, they both appear to be sort of connected together as well.”
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“Left?” she said, arching her brows. “But my dear boy, he never left. He's still here. Mr. Temple is also here. They're on the fourth floor, both of them together.”
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“I stuff all my little pets myself when they pass away. Will you have another cup of tea?”
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Christopher Mulholland Character Timeline in The Landlady
The timeline below shows where the character Christopher Mulholland appears in The Landlady. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The Landlady
...the visitor’s book, Billy notices that there have only been two previous entries. The first name—Christopher Mulholland—“rings a bell,” and Billy begins to wonder where he has heard it, thinking maybe...
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...the landlady appears with “a large silver tea-tray in her hands.” Billy asks her if Christopher and Gregory were famous athletes, which would explain why their names sound familiar. She says...
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Billy begins asking the landlady questions about her Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple in order to try and work out why he recognizes their...
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...newspapers, and he is determined to find out why. He begins to remember the name “Christopher Mulholland” in the context of a news story he read about a schoolboy who went...
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As the landlady speaks fondly about Mr. Mulholland , Billy asks if the guest checked out only recently. Confused, the landlady answers that...
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...is seventeen, and she cries out, saying: “Oh, it’s the perfect age!” She explains that Christopher was the same age when she met him, and that Gregory was a little older....
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...his name, she can just look in the book, as she frequently does with “ Mr. Mulholland and Mr. … Mr. …” She trails off, and Billy reminds her that the guest...
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