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This 10 page paper discusses the novel "Hotel" by Arthur Hailey, and the challenges faced by the fictional St. Gregory. It also discusses how those challenges relate to the real world hospitality industry. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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to a hotel) that somehow suddenly turn into extraordinary-even deadly-situations. This paper discusses his 1965 novel Hotel, unique aspects of the hotel and how it relates to hotels today. The
Novel The action in the novel takes place over the course of one blistering hot week in New Orleans, from Monday evening through Friday. Like all of Haileys novels, Hotel
traces a number of plots that finally intersect at the climax of the book. In Airport, we had a little old lady stowaway on a plane that was the target
of a bomber; the plane was flown by a pilot torn between his wife and his girlfriend. All of these plots were traced independently, but finally they all came together
as the bomb exploded and put the aircraft in jeopardy. Here, the three main stories deal with a takeover bid for the hotel, a scandal involving a regal guest who
is the perpetrator of a hit-and-run; and the antic adventures of a hotel thief who hopes to make a good score. They all converge in a falling elevator. We can
see the way in which Hailey brings the threads together in one excerpt, when the hotel thief, Keycase Milne, inadvertently wakes his intended victim. As the young man demands to
know what hes doing in the room, Milne thinks fast, pretends to be drunk, and insists that its his room: "This s 614?" he slurs; the other man says, "You
stupid jerk! Its 641!" (Hailey, 1965, p. 174). Milne apologizes, then asks if the other man wants the paper, no charge. Predictably, the man throws him out (Hailey, 1965). But
Milne has managed to extricate himself from the room without the man calling security, or discovering that Milne is in fact a thief. Milne waits outside the door, listening intently,
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