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Examples Of Foreshadowing In The Landlady

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Roald Dahl shows the effectiveness of foreshadowing in the short story, “The Landlady”. When Billy was sitting alone he noticed, “His landlady wasn’t there, but the fire was glowing in the hearth, and the little dachshund was still sleeping soundly in front of it.” (Dahl 3). It is unusual that the dog is still sleeping soundly, this hints at the fact that something is not normal with the dog, the dog would usually be barking. It foreshadows that something mysterious has happened to the dog. Roald Dahl uses more foreshadowing in the story later on. When Billy and the landlady were chatting over tea he realized, “Now and again, he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell that seemed to emanate directly from her person…he wasn’t quite sure what it
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