Answered Questions of 'The Shining'

For years, this has stumped so many people. However, on only my second-viewing; I feel confident that I have the meanings to the endless questions people have about this classic 1980 psychological horror film: The Shining.

Jack Torrance was Charles Grady.

In the beginning of the film when Jack is being interviewed for his job at The Overlook Hotel; Mr. Ullman tells him a grim and gruesome story about Charles Grady, a man who murdered his two daughters of ages eight and ten, as well as his wife and then he killed himself. Later in the film, however, when Jack talks to the ghost who is supposedly the man who killed them is now named Delbert. This has confused people for ages, but here's what I think:

Delbert and Charles Grady are not the same person; rather, they're brothers. I believe that Jack was Charles Grady in the past, and this would explain the final shot of the film being Jack in the 1921 photograph at The Gold Room. He was reincarnated from Charles Grady to recommit the same murders again. Delbert Grady would be Charles' brother. This explains why he is so kind to Jack and why he unlocks the freezer for him to go re-commit the crime. This takes care of what is often thought to be a gaping plot hole. This also shows that the final shot has a deeper meaning than anticipated. Remember just a month after they moved into the hotel that Jack tells Wendy: "I feel like I've been here before. That I knew what was going to be around every corner." Well, he has. Albeit in another lifetime.

Another plot "hole" it could explain is that when in the beginning Mr. Ullman gives the daughters ages as eight and ten, which would be impossible for twins to be two years apart. This would mean that Charles Grady (Jack) murdered his two daughters of different ages. While Delbert (His brother) describes his two daughters as 'running around somewhere'. They are running around trying to prevent Danny from the same ultimate fate. They could have shown themselves in a dead state to scare Danny into knowing what may happen to him.

I honestly feel this makes the best sense of any theory relating to The Shining, and that it was Stanley Kubrick's original intention.