Larsson vs. Blomkvist

Larsson develops Mikael Blomkvist's character very similar after his own life. Other authors have practiced this same method as well. Larsson was a journalist for a magazine called Expo which criticized extreme rightist within the Swedish Government. Like Larsson, Blomkvist is also a journalist exposing major corporations or business men for fraud or some kind of cheating. The Swedes have come to have divided opinions on Blomkvist. It is prevalent in Larsson's novel that his own voice and opinions seep through Mikeal Blomkvist's character. Like Blomkvist, Stieg Larsson enjoyed exploiting persons that cheated the law, even though he was haunted and often threatened for his job. Another conflict in the novel aside from the investigation of Harriet Vanger, is the controversy over a political business head that has committed gross slander along with illegal trafficking. Blomkvist is trying to prove the man is guilty. Blomkvist is set up and later sent to jail for his writings. Larsson passes his knowledge and life style into the hands of Mikael Blomkvist in the novel making them very parallel.