Genre
Novel
Setting and Context
Set in Sweden in the context of crime
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Humorous, intriguing, fascinating, traumatic
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central characters are Jim and Jack.
Major Conflict
The main conflict is that a bank burglar takes the strangers in an apartment hostage for several hours after a failed robbery.
Climax
The climax comes when the cops discover the real identity of the bank robber. According to the cops, the robber is a woman who lost her home, job and husband. Therefore, frustrations drove the woman into robbery. Jack recalls that the same woman tried to commit suicide when she threw herself under the bridge, but she survived.
Foreshadowing
The cashless bank robbery foreshadows the robber’s hopeless life.
Understatement
The ability of women robbers is understated. The discussed bank robber is a 39-year old woman. After she robs the bank, she realizes that it is cashless, and she runs away. She enters an apartment and takes hostage the occupants for hours before the police arrive.
Allusions
The story alludes to life frustrations that push people to crimes.
Imagery
The images of the bank robbery and hostages in the apartment depict a sense of sight which helps readers see how the robbery is executed.
Paradox
The main paradox is that the older cop is the father of the younger cop. Paradoxically, the son doubts his father's ability to execute the investigation concerning the bank robbery.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between crime and daily life challenges.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
The cashless bank is personified as hopeless.
