# The Shining - jarring moments (and not in a good way)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 3, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-shining-jarring-moments-and-not-in-a-good-way/406600 "2007-06-03T19:00:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-shining-jarring-moments-and-not-in-a-good-way/406600/41 "2007-06-04T16:49:42Z")

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[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]  
I’d have done her.  
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Great, now you Robbin Williams and Paul L. Smith can get into a three-way brawl for her affections :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-shining-jarring-moments-and-not-in-a-good-way/406600/42 "2007-06-04T17:36:39Z")

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[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn]  
Which character is driven evil in _DC_? Certainly not Dolores. She responds to a lifetime of abuse, and finally goes over the edge when she finds out her daughter has been sexually abused by her husband, and all the college money she’d scrimped for was gone.

She was definitely not evil.  
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There was additionally the mean old lady, who Dolores still respected and the reader came to understand more fully over the course of the book.

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