TUESDAY

Danny is then seen stopping outside Room 237. In the novel by King, the room number is 217 : The number of the room King stayed in a hotel - the Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado - which inspired the novel. In the film this was changed to 237 as the hotel where the film�s exteriors were shot - the Timberline Lodge in Mount Oregon actually had a room 217.

Without being prompted, Danny knows of something in Room 237, but not of what it is. On the patterned carpet he plays with his toys, and something unseen rolls a ball down the corridor to Danny�s feet : an open invitation. And the carpet, patterned in the colours of the Navajo and Apache tapestries that adorn the walls and shaped like a huge, infinite maze, invite Danny in, but offer no way out.

Moving on from this, Wendy and Jack have their first confrontation. Notable for the first sign of a domestic disagreement and a lack of harmony between the two. Jack also utters the first swearword of the film - placed quite late into the film as if to suggest, through swearing an escalation of the divide between the two.

However, this couple are blatantly dysfunctional anyway : they only shown affection to each other once, and then it is brief and fleeting. Like many a marriage, they were poorly matched but desperate for love, and are now stuck together by circumstance whilst their paths divide. In some ways then, The Shining can be seen as a parable about the collapse of a relationship, and the rise of divorce.

In addition, this scene sees the first sign of the Overlook feeding Jack�s state of mind. It�s probably a continuity error, but after Jack tears off the piece of paper he was �working� on in his sterile creative endeavour, a later shot reveals that the typewriter has been refilled off-camera. Has the hotel refilled this for him? Given the appearing / disappearing chair that sits behind Jack�s shoulder in the scene - and comments regarding a handful of deleted shots in the scene by editor Gordon Stainforth - probably not, but it would be a nice touch if it did.