Faulkner leaves the reader free to guess what the landlady's past might have been, which can, in turn, make the story mean different different things for different people. Readers don't know what led her to be drawn to keeping young men and stuffing them into her home. "'Seventeen?' She cried. 'Oh, this is the perfect age!'” Did she lose two of her boys? Did they die? story leaves us with these questions. I have come to the conclusion that the landlady in “The Landlady” had kids who were teenagers when they died. As a result, the landlady feels she has to open this Bed and Breakfast to attract teenagers so that he could love them just as he loved his children. However, there is a certain irony in this conclusion. If his teenage children died, why would he want to continue killing young boys that he wants to keep forever? the lady of the house would have liked to keep them alive as long as possible and, then, to preserve their bodies after death, these actions of stuffing the bodies are an expression of love it's definitely not what many would call "normal." Usually people show their love by going on dates, giving flowers to the other person, and doing activities together that make their love even stronger. In these stories, killing people and embalming them is how these two women demonstrate their love. Dahl and Faulkner have maintained the reader's interest by including these twisted minds in theirs