There's so much crammed into the pages of Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Goldfinch . In short, the story is about a young boy growing up in New York City, but the more than 700-page novel is also about beauty, loss, fate and the…

While the film adaptation of "The Goldfinch" is a little thinner on the details of Theo's decision, the book is crystal clear.

The Goldfinch movie flopped. But its problems go back to its Pulitzer-winning source material.