1. Family Issues
1.1. Authority Issues
1.1.1. Hierarchies
1.1.2. Who should Jack listen to? What stops him from
2. Violence
2.1. Alcoholism
2.1.1. "Dear God, he could use a drink. Or a thousand of them. (chp 3)"
2.1.2. His view on alcoholism is something different than wendy would want. Blaming it on something else - something he can't control like it isn't his fault for what later comes in the book
2.1.2.1. It had nothing to do with willpower, or the morality of drinking, or the weakness or strength of his own character. There was a broken switch inside, or a circuit breaker that didn't work. (chp 14)
2.1.2.2. "All your old drinking habits, too. Chewing Excedrin. Wiping your mouth all the time. Cranky in the morning. And you haven't been able to finish the play, yet, have you?" (chp 29)
2.2. Through Isolation
2.2.1. "He murdered his little girls with a hatchet, his wife with a shotgun, and himself the same way" ( chp 1)
3. Isolation
3.1. From society
3.1.1. From Family
3.2. From Family
3.2.1. Danny's isolation causes himself to veer into new ways to find self-reassurance
3.3. From civilization
3.3.1. The overlook hotel history with the previous care-keeper - murdering his wife and two daughters, should be a foreshadow of the book
3.3.1.1. "During our first winter I hired a family instead of a single man. There was tragedy. A horrible tragedy." (chp 1)
4. Escaping Reality
4.1. Seeing 'things'
4.1.1. "Great splashes of dried blood, flecked with tiny bits of grayish-white tissue" (chp 12)
4.2. Discerning Reality
4.2.1. Tony - (REDRUM) and fear is combined with a fear of divorce. Jack's isolation from him and Wendy cuase Danny to lead to new ways to find comfort and safety
4.2.1.1. The greatest terror of Danny's life was DIVORCE, a word that always appeared in his mind as a sign painted in red letters which were covered in hissing, poisonous snakes." (4)
4.2.1.2. "Danny told me. Danny knew. The same way he sometimes knows when things are misplaced, or when people are thinking about divorce." (chp 3)