Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
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Setting
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest begins right where The Girl Who Played With Fire ends, just after Salander returns from the dead to bury an axe in her murderous father's face. Blomkvist finds...
What's Up With the Title?
The English language title refers to the major plot of the story – Lisbeth Salander, with lots of help from her friends, takes on the hornet's nest of lies and deceit which has made her life mise...
What's Up With the Epigraph?
In The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, each of the novel's four parts begins with an epigraph. The epigraphs are full-page essays. These essays suggest that Stieg Larsson was doing some serious...
What's Up With the Ending?
We are pleased to report that the ending is happy. We're talking happy like a Shakespearean comedy happy. Shakespeare's gender-bending Twelfth Night comes to mind. That play begins in chaos and con...