King establishes the labor the working class executes is a valued part of business through panicked tone. When Jack and Danny are arguing during their violent confrontation, King writes Danny says“‘Any minute now! I know it! The boiler, Daddy forgot the boiler! And you forgot it, too!... Mustn't happen!’ [Jack] cried. ‘Oh no, mustn't happen’” (King 635). King employs the phrases “any minute now”, “you forgot it too!”, and “mustn’t happen!” to create a panicked tone. This panic stems from not completing blue collar labor Jack was assigned to do. When Jack fails to do this work, it results in the destruction of the hotel, and the destruction of himself. This characterizes blue collar work as important, because if Jack completed his job, the Overlook would have not exploded, thus allowing its business to continue on . …show more content…
Greg Smith comments the only work Jack ever produces in the novel is “an enormous pile of papers bearing only the sentence ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’ over and over, but in different patterns so that the sentence mimics various conventional writing forms” (Smith). Since Jack mimics other writing forms, he essentially completes no real work of his own. The phrase “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” is a proverbial phrase which translates to “working all of the time makes a person becomes bored”. This emphasizes blue collar workers, known for executing repetitive tasks for many hours a day, is boring. This, in addition to Jack mimicking other writing styles, emphasize Smith believes Kubrick views blue collar workers as meaningless aspects of