With the scene concluding Jack has finally managed to take control and step out in front of Wendy, here in the bathroom. The color coding in the white room instantiates the theme of the violence of human nature underlying the patina of civilization. It is significant that the film ends outside the house 'in nature', but nature appears metaphorically in the hotel in the form of the recurring bathroom motif. In one, Jack encounters the ulcerous woman; in another he receives his murderous instructions from the previous caretaker. There also Wendy hides from him when he begins his rampage. The bathroom suggests interiority, and it is comparable to the unconscious to which jack descends and to the past into which he retreats. If the house if a metaphor for the psyche, then the bathroom comes to figure as a site of bodily guilt and disgust. It signifies gross materiality (the hag), the compulsive fated horror of the past (the previous caretaker), and the violence lurking beneath polite family life (the attack on wendy and Danny).

Jack is on the left (left is EVIL). Wendy wears a crown. On her right shoulder is the oval shape from the BEDROOM mirror / CENTER of the maze / ROOM 237.