.Look at your daughter.She""s going to a big party tonight.And she""s got to wear a dress that""s two years old.How do you expect her o get anywhere?In reality, Alice has a modest, middle-class upbringing and poor family without, in her opinion, proper social graces, but she is supportive of her father""s self-pitying plight and sympathetic o the affliction brought on him by her status-conscious mother.The film was a well-meaning, but often misguided effort that had confusing and mixed messages about male superiority, the exploitation of Mexican workers, and racial equality (for both blacks in the Maryland sequences, and Hispanics in the Texas sequences).Carroll), where he is old: "Nobody slept here for years."Lockwood cannot sleep, for the wind blows the shutter against the window all through the night.When he rises from his dusty bed to close the shutter, he hears a strange, ghostly, female voice, desperately crying: "Heathcliff."]As in many of his films, director Kubrick explores he dimensions of the genre to create the ultimate horror film of a man going mad due to many factors (including alcohol abuse), aspiring writer Jack Torrance (Nicholson), while serving as an off-season caretaker of an isolated, snowbound resort (the Overlook) with his family: wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd).