Symbols, Imagery, Allegory
As a late birthday present, Mimmi gives Salander "a beautiful cigarette case with a lid of blue and black enamel and some tiny Chinese characters as decoration" (9.43). We wish we could tell you wh...
Setting
The Girl Who Played With Fire opens at The Keys Hotel in St. George, on the Caribbean island of Grenada. Lisbeth Salander, it seems, is actually on vacation. But, she knows that all play and no wor...
What's Up With the Title?
She listened to David Bowie singing "putting out fire with gasoline." She didn't know the name of the song, but she took the words as prophetic. (29.121)The title (Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden in Sw...
What's Up With the Epigraph?
Equations are classified by the highest power (value of the exponent) of their unknowns. If this is one, the equation is of the first degree. If this is two, the equation is of the second degree, a...
What's Up With the Ending?
The ending is exasperating, improbable, and painfully fun. To quickly summarize: Salander's super-eeevil father Zala shoots her in the head, and her half-brother Ronald Niedermann buries her, only...