Newspapers were how we got updates and the “important” information. The Newspapers we can see in The Shining happen most clearly in No.7 with newspaper and review pieces. This communicates Wendy as informed, well read, and ties in with the amount of books we see her around.
The Sontag identification connects the prop with Illness as Metaphor, which first appeared in The New York Review of Books. The exact prop issue still needs visual confirmation.
Not only is Wendy well read, she’s reading critical theory. Smart women can be trapped in abusive marriages too.
The other newspaper, in blue, deals with the Carter collapse, giving the viewer a sense of time and place, which is topically current for the time the film was made.
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