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The Landlady Analysis
The Narrator would stalk the old man in his sleep waiting for his Evil Vulture Eye to open, when it opened, he striked. Although in “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl, the Landlady killed three kids by poisoning them, then stuffing them, the Narrator killed him and lost his sanity like a true evil madman unlike the Landlady. The Landlady acted quite quire, she didn’t necessarily lose her sanity. The Narrator also dismembered the old man’s limbs and body parts. Still, going back to the Landlady, she stuffed the kids after they were poisoned. The Landlady didn’t slice down every part of your body to make it more brutal.
The Narrator loved the old man as well. Killing someone you love for having low sanity takes some evil that you need to release inside

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