Theo Decker is a thirteen-year old boy who lives in New York with his mother. He adores her and she adores him, but he gets very nervous when she, one day, has to stay home from work in order to meet with his school – for what reason, he doesn’t know. He can only suspect why he’s in trouble. Before they head to school, they go to the museum for a quick visit, because Theo’s mother loves art. That’s when Theo’s life changes forever. […]
Read the first half, put the second half off until you can’t sleep
Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch follows Theo Decker, a 13‑year‑old boy living in New York who survives a terrorist attack at the Met that kills his mother. When Theo awakes from the attack, he provides companionship to a dying man, who gives him cryptic instructions, and, when leaving the scene of the attack, Theo steals the beautiful painting The Goldfinch. The novel follows Theo as he is taken in by a wealthy friend, then sent to the Las Vegas suburbs to live with his good‑for‑nothing father, […]
If You Love Something, Set It Free. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
What does it mean to love something? Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch is mostly about love and what we will do to have it, in all it’s many manifestations. This story is not about right or wrong, good choices or bad, at it’s heart, The Goldfinch is about what we will do to hold near the things we love. The Goldfinch is a wild (though sometimes overlong) ride through a life of frivolous delinquency, unintentional criminality, lapses in honesty, breaches of ethics, and misunderstood attractions. For Theo Decker, there is no thing so […]