<P> "When Ullman, himself all smiles, relates as a footnote the story about the former caretaker who' seemed perfectly normal' but nevertheless cut up his family with an ax, Jack's obvious interest (as if he's recalling one of his own nightmares) and his insincere congeniality (early signs of a personality malfunction) lead the viewer to believe that the film's definition of his madness will be far more complex ." </P> <P> Stephen King provides the reader with a great deal of information about the stress in the Torrance family early in the story, including revelations of Jack's physical abuse of Danny and Wendy's fear of Danny's mysterious spells . Kubrick tones down the early family tension and reveals family disharmony much more gradually than does King . In the film, Danny has a stronger emotional bond with Wendy than with Jack, which fuels Jack's rather paranoid notion that the two are conspiring against him . </P> <P> In the novel Jack recovers his sanity and goodwill through the intervention of Danny while this does not occur in the film . Writing in Cinefantastique magazine, Frederick Clarke suggests "Instead of playing a normal man who becomes insane, Nicholson portrays a crazy man attempting to remain sane ." In the novel, Jack's final act is to enable Wendy and Danny to escape the hotel before it explodes due to a defective boiler, killing him . The film ends with the hotel still standing . More broadly, the defective boiler is a major element of the novel's plot, entirely missing from the film version . </P> <P> Because of the limitations of special effects at the time, the living topiary animals of the novel were omitted and a hedge maze was added, acting as a final trap for Jack Torrance as well as a refuge for Danny . </P>

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