Jack's siblings despised their father for his abuse. However, this affection would end at age 09 after Mark's treatment towards his wife left her concussed and hospitalized. He saw his father's loud arrivals home as a means to break the silence, and would bond with him in spite of the abuse. Although Jack's father, Mark Torrence, was mentally and physically abusive towards every member of his family throughout Jack's childhood, Jack seemed to have developed a love for the earlier years of their relationship. Jack grew up in a middle-class catholic setting on the United States East Coast. He looks the same in the Doctor Sleep novel. He is also described as being “moderately tall”. The only defining attributes that are touched on in the novel is Jack’s longer hair, and reddish blonde color. Jack's alcoholism and violent temper had lost him a job as a teacher of literature at a prestigious New England prep school. In the novel, Jack Torrance is a loving but troubled father who cares deeply for Wendy and Danny but does not know how to show it properly. Biography Personality The Shining (book) Personality & Appearance
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