Look, Theo Decker is gay. Listen, Theo Decker is not happy about the fact that he’s gay. Or more precisely, he’s not at a place where he’s willing to accept his sexuality (we’ve all been there). He’s a tangled knot of trauma and grief, written in such a specific way that I feel like our… Continue reading a close reading of a passage from ‘The Goldfinch’ that makes me feel insane