Billy Weaver is a young man of seventeen getting his start in the business world. He is naive, he is allured by just how cheap the stay is at this boarding house. Ironically, he pays for this stay with his life, a far greater cost than he could have imagined. The landlady has all the characteristics associated with the mother, or the caregiver. She is kind, gentle, and over bearing at times which hint a the possibility of sexual connotations. It is easy to understand why the innocent young man would find himself so blind to the subtle hints of