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The goldfinch by donna tartt7/7/2023 ![]() Young Theodore Decker, having escaped the terrorist explosion, then escapes foster care in The System. ![]() The novelist herself uses the painting as a guide to navigate irreconcilable dualities–good and evil, hope and despair, safety and danger, perfection and flaw, life and death, a wager and a sure bet. The Goldfinch‘s captivating allegory The Goldfinch, a novel by Donna Tartt The book is about the boy and the painting finding their true home. He and the painting are survivors, and he holds on to it for dear life, as a talisman and a burden. In the fictional world of the book, the young hero takes the painting from the Met during a terrorist attack. The painting of the bird is real–a small, rare 17th-century Dutch masterpiece housed in the Mauritshuis in the Hague. ![]() The reason I tore through Donna Tartt’s bestselling, mega-sized novel The Goldfinch is the almost Dickensian tale of a boy unmoored from his family and drifting through households and locales in a surreal state of drug-and-alcohol-induced stupefaction, all the while holding on to that invaluable painting, “The Goldfinch,” packed in a pillowcase. ![]() Forget about the eponymous Fabritius painting. ![]()
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