I talked about this with my girlfriend, being curious what a girl thinks about this. It was interesting conversation, girls keep succeding to amaze me... Funny thing was, she was not confused or perplexed about the story and its sensible parts, like i have been. She just accepted the things given by the writer and did not think twice about them. No "why this, and why that, could this be, or could this be not".have kept away from this thread up until now, and rereading once again I am reminded why I wanted to stay away.
I don't see Eli and Oskar as having a sexual relationship. To me this is more like the relationship between two brothers, or a brother and a sister, or a parent and a child. People need the acceptance and physical affection that comes with love, apart from sexuality. I sometimes think the latter is only a vehicle for the former, forcing solitary creatures to seek out the affection that they really need. That is what Eli is doing in this story, seeking out the love and acceptance that she so desperately needs. Eli is a supernatural creature, capable of performing miracles, but Eli hates herself because she is a vampire. That Oskar loves Eli, and continues to accept Eli, all evidence to the contrary comes as a kind of miracle to for Eli. "I am this loathsome thing, and yet Oskar loves me."
As for the future, I think Lindqvist was wise to end the novel where he does. I can't see a happy prognosis for Eli and Oskar, if only because Eli lives in a different "time zone" from the rest of humanity. As Oskar notes in the novel, Eli will never grow up, Eli will always be a child.
I do not know, that only she approaches the story so cool, or girls in general.
Anyway, she was on a different opinion than me, but the her point was, that in the end it is irrelevant what it is, or is not, because she saw the whole thing as Eli's move to turn Oskar into a new Hakan. I could not convince her of the opposite.
