Theo grabs the painting, and runs home so he can meet with his mother. The man gives him a ring and tells him to go to Hobart & Blackwell, and also insists that Theo leave with The Goldfinch. He runs through the gallery to look for his mother but stumbles upon the man who was walking with the girl. The gallery is bombed, and Theo is surrounded by shrapnel and several dead bodies. His mother decides to head downstairs so they can make the meeting on time, but Theo asks to stay behind so he can keep looking at the girl. Theo's mother shows him The Goldfinch, a painting by Carel Fabritius that she loves, but he is more interested in a girl that he sees across the gallery. On the way over it starts to rain, and they run into the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see an exhibit on the Dutch Golden Age of painting. They call a cab, but his mother gets carsick and they decide to walk to his school. Theo has been suspended, and his mother isn't pleased. That morning, they rush to his school from their tiny Manhattan apartment for a conference with his principal. The novel jumps from his life at 22 to the day of his mother's death ten years earlier. The novel is a coming-of-age story and a recollection of his life after his mother's death. The Goldfinchis the story of Theodore "Theo" Decker.
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