Don’t judge a person just by his or her first look, that’s the moral of the story. This story is about Bill, the protagonist, meets a terribly nice lady, but later at the end of the story finds that she actually is a horrible person. In the short story Landlady by Roald Dahl, Bill learns a moral that don’t just trust a person on the first encounter, and don’t get deceived by their kindness outside.
The main theme of the story is deception and trick. The main example in the story is when Bill Weaver travels to Bath, London for a business trip, but when he found a hotel to live in, he met the owner of the hotel. She was an extremely nice and kind woman and offered him a fantastic room to live in and with a cheap press. Then something interesting happened, when the women asked Bill to sign a paper for renting the room, Bill saw two familiar names on the paper. Then he remembered that these are the two people that disappeared a couple years ago. Then Bill asked why the parrot and the other animals in the room seemed so quiet and to his surprise the women said she stuffed all of them when they passed away.
This creeped Bill out. This shows that the author is trying to pass and tell the moral that never trust anyone just because they’re generous and nice.
All in all, this story tells us people are trustworthy on the outside but treacherous on the inside. Just like in the story, Bill justed the women because she offered him a good room at a cheap price, offered him food and water, and all these kind things to do. But at the end, she was an evil and treacherous woman.