The maintenance man at the Overlook Hotel. Watson is the one to show Jack the hotel’s boiler and warn him that “it creeps.” Watson is a crass man, who swears too much and looks at Wendy with “lecherous” eyes, and he seriously hates Ullman, the hotel’s manager. It was Watson’s grandfather who first opened the hotel in 1910, and Watson knows all about the hotel’s history. Jack asks Watson about Grady, and he is more than forthcoming with information, telling Jack that Grady went insane and murdered his own family. Watson also tells Jack about Mrs. Massey and the ghost of room 217, but Watson adamantly denies having ever seen a ghost in the hotel.
Watson Quotes in The Shining
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“She creeps,” Watson said. “You tell that fat little peckerwood Ullman, he drags out the account books and spends three hours showing how we can’t afford a new one until 1982. I tell you, this whole place is gonna go sky-high someday, and I just hope that fat fuck’s here to ride the rocket.
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Watson Quotes in The Shining
The The Shining quotes below are all either spoken by Watson or refer to Watson. 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:
).
Chapter 3
Quotes
“She creeps,” Watson said. “You tell that fat little peckerwood Ullman, he drags out the account books and spends three hours showing how we can’t afford a new one until 1982. I tell you, this whole place is gonna go sky-high someday, and I just hope that fat fuck’s here to ride the rocket.
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