I believe that goldfinch had two stories in one book that should have been two books.

It’s possible that because she was an acclaimed writer, her editor might not have wanted to change too much, but I would have taken out a huge chunk of the book.

Want to know this crazy theory I have? Her book was actually the story with pippa and her brother.

And the stuff that happened in Las Vegas and the stuff with the opiate abuse and the whole story line with Boris? That was all someone else’s story. My theory is that she might have met someone who she stole a journal from, and she added stuff from this journal into her own book. Possibly the journal belonged to a dead junkie.

The writing style is completely different from the rest of the book and in my opinion, the only part of the book that was any good. It was also too real. Unless Tart struggled with heroin addiction, I feel like she couldn’t have described the feeling that Theo felt in the hotel room.

The stolen masterpiece is a metaphor for the stolen story.

In an interview she said that she was going to focus more on Platt (pipas brother) which tells me that she doesn’t even realize how incredibly boring that character is and doesn’t realize that the real story was between Theo and Boris.

Makes sense though that she would have wanted to focus more on platt and his mom. Being from a wealthy family and being wealthy herself, she obviously would have more to say about them than the very interesting Boris, who seems so real I have a hard time believing he was purely fictional.

This is just a crazy theory I came up with while reading this monster of a story. Could be totally off.. but it’s interesting to think about