Across literary works, the term "occupant" is employed with a fluid range of meanings—from the strictly literal to the metaphorically evocative. In some texts it designates a physical inhabitant of a space, as when Melville portrays a solitary man "the motionless occupant of a naked room" [1] or when Burnett delineates the newcomer in a residence with no family ties [2]. In other contexts, it acquires a more abstract dimension: Carlyle and Jefferson use it to denote the initial holder of a title or position [3, 4], while Whitman imbues it with emotional nuance, describing a dwelling whose "heart... was dark and cheerless" [5]. Even in legalistic or forensic narratives, the word serves to specify rightful possession, as seen in Galdós's reference to adverse possession [6]. Thus, "occupant" functions both as a marker of physical presence and as a symbol of deeper personal or legal circumstances across various literary landscapes.