Study Guide

The Danish Girl Chapter 16

By David Ebershoff

Chapter 16

Everyone is busy with Carlisle visiting, but Greta is still trying to find help for Einar/Lili.
She meets with a man named Professor Alfred Bolk, who runs a Women's Clinic in Dresden.
Bolk, despite sounding like something the Swedish Chef says, doesn't seem to be a quack.
He doesn't think Einar is insane or a danger because Bolk has met someone like Einar before: a man who thought he was a woman.
In fact, Bolk has invented a procedure that physically changes a man into a woman.
This particular man—the one Bolk's met before—chickened out, though, so the procedure has never actually been done.
Greta believes this procedure would be perfect for Einar, and she vows to convince him and Lili to go to Dresden.