Patrick / “The Lanky One” Character Analysis

Ove refers to Patrick as The Lanky One. He's Parvaneh's husband and works as an IT consultant. Ove finds Patrick ridiculous and infuriating: though he's over six feet tall he drives a tiny automatic Toyota, he doesn't know how to drive properly, and he knows nothing about performing basic house maintenance like unjamming windows or bleeding radiators. He falls off a ladder while trying to unjam a window and spends much of the novel in body casts. He's particularly awkward and has a habit of making observations that are either extremely obvious to Ove or beyond Ove's comprehension, as when he tells Ove that his house looks like a scene from the show Dexter.