The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Analysis

Desert SnowIn the Prologue, Henrik Vanger, and Detective Inspector Gustaf Morell are given a clue that Harriet now lives in Australia. Just like every year since Harriet's been gone, Henrik gets a...

Sweden, Switzerland, England, and Australia; November 1, 2002 – December 30, 2003Break out the "herring and the aquavit" (1.52), the bacon pancakes, and, of course, Salander's staple, Billy's...

Lisbeth Salander, our brilliant private investigator-hacker-vigilante, is – yes – the girl with the dragon tattoo. Said tattoo resides on "her left shoulder blade" (2.16). As noted in o...

Eighteen percent of the women in Sweden have at one time been threatened by a man.Forty six percent of the women in Sweden have been subjected to violence by a man.Thirteen percent of the women in...

Three main things happen in the ending. Two of them involve revenge on diabolical financier Hans-Erik Wennerström, and the other involves love and heartbreak. Some readers and reviewers find t...