Jack Torrance

John "Jack" Torrance is a former protagonist and antagonist in Stephen Kng's novel The Shining, The Shining movie and Stephen King's The Shining mini-series. He's also an author and huspand of Wendy Torrance, father of Danny Torrance and Lucy Stone and grandfather of Abra Stone.

Quotes
Main article: Jack Torrance Quotes

The Novel
In the novel and the mini-series, the ghosts overtake Jack's body to kill Danny easily. However, Danny communicates with Jack himself and reminds that the boiler has been neglected. Hallorann, Danny and Wendy get to escape, but Jack, the hotel and the ghosts explode.

The Movie
In the movie, Jack's death is really different.

Jack kills Hallorann with an axe and starts chasing Danny, shouting: "Danny boy!" and "I'm right behind you!". Danny is able to hide from Jack and Jack soon freezes to death.