Here we are reintroduced to The Lobby, but from a different viewpoint. The Lobby will become a living space for the Torrances.
We are also experiencing Kubrick using directional movement as a way to show difference.
Ullman and Watson walk towards the camera and we see the banding checkerboard styling of the floor, the contrast of art deco and Native American imagery, and bear traps styled as chandeliers.
Jack is shown seated reading a Playgirl magazine (featuring a story on why parents sleep with their children), and is situated where guests were placed as he walked in (from the left, and walked away from the camera) in No.3.
The dialogue is mind-numbingly banal but it’s important that it is because Kubrick plays the unreliable narrator in a few ways.