Characters
The girl's part-time job.
What is an advertising model?
The age of the narrator when he first met the girl.
What is 31 years?
The frequency at which the boyfriend claims he burns barns.
What is one barn every two months?
Why did the girl have so many boyfriends?
So she could live off of their money.
Describe the car the boyfriend owned.
A German silver-gray sports car.
Total number of barns in the narrator's area.
What is 16.
The time it will take for a barn to completely burn to the ground.
What is 15 minutes?
Talk about oranges.
Wealth
Girl peels them and throws them away --> reflects how she goes from rich guy to rich guy.
Location where the girl met her boyfriend.
Where is Algiers, Algeria?
The length of the course the narrator took to check out the barns.
What is 7.2 km?
What the boyfriend meant by "barn burning."
What is the murder of the girl?
Talk about apples.
Garden of Eden --> apples can symbolize evil, or foreshadows how the narrator is unknowingly going to get himself involved in something complicated.
The topic the girl was studying when the narrator first met her.
The time it took for the narrator to run the course (to check out the barns)
What is 31 minutes 30 seconds?
Thoughts on "how the boyfriend picks barns to burn- specifically ones that cause "no grief to anyone."
Girls that don't really have any friends; girls that are easy to take advantage of.
The girl has "no real friends." The list of names that she has was just that: a list of names.
The reason behind the boyfriend's actions.
Jealousy.
Relevance of the fox and gloves.
I see this as how the story mirrors their situation right now, how the girl = fox, narrator = glove maker. The narrator is continuing to play the third wheel/bystander, not wanting to seriously help the girl. He gets this feeling that the boyfriend is bad news, yet he still does nothing about it.
The scale of the map the narrator bought.
What is 20000:1?
What does the narrator being obsessed with the barns in his area tell you about his true feelings?
Thoughts on the relationship between the narrator and the girl.
A hint of jealousy? A bit of stalking, trying to figure out what the girl's boyfriend was going to do.
Despite having a wife, his relationship with the girl is probably more than just friends.
Doesn't want to be a third wheel.
Girl trusts narrator a lot.
Narrator makes an attempt to find the girl.
Barn burning still haunts the narrator.
Meaning behind sharing a joint.
According to one of the articles we read back in January, this can illustrate how the narrator is getting a chance to know the boyfriend better, and is the scene where he learns about the boyfriend's hobby of "burning barns," something that he has never told anyone else.