A former maid at the Overlook Hotel. According to Hallorann, Delores had a “little shine to her” but didn’t know it. She was a “lazy goof-off” and spent most of her time hiding in a linen closet, smoking cigarettes and reading. Because of her shine and intuition, every time Ullman made his rounds, she was busy cleaning, her cigarettes and magazines safely hidden. Delores cleaned room 217 the day after Mrs. Massey committed suicide and saw the ghost of the woman’s bloated corpse in the bathtub. Delores told the other maids and a few guests about her experience, so Ullman fired her. Delores told Hallorann about her experience in room 217, Hallorann suspects, for no reason other than being drawn to his own shine. Like the sour-faced woman and Howard Cottrell, Delores Vickery is another example of shining in the novel, and she underscores how “a shine knows a shine.”