"Nothing official," said Jack Torrance with a helpless shrug.

Jack Torrance is portrayed in a less sympathetic manner in the 1980 film.

Jack Torrance had been extremely susceptible to the flu in the last year.

But he, Jack Torrance, had never felt that way about George.

"I didn't see that at all," Jack Torrance said quite clearly.

The thought came into Jack Torrance's mind full-blown, edged in bright, warning red.

But the bottle came down squarely on Jack Torrance's head, the glass shattering violently inside the straw.

Jack Torrance was in it alone.

Then the mallet began to rise and descend, destroying the last of Jack Torrance's image.

A writer, Jack Torrance, takes a job as an off-season caretaker at an isolated hotel.