Research Paper On Gone Girl
Yours Truly, The Gone Girl
Authored by The New York Times bestselling novelist Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl is an alarming look at the downfall of a corrupt marriage characterized by infidelity, discontent, resentment, and, ultimately, psychopathy. The couple’s toxic relationship culminating in tragedy, Nick Dunn arrives home on his fifth wedding anniversary to find his house ransacked and his wife Amy missing. As the police dive into a high stakes investigation in the presumed kidnapping of Amy, the public, police and even the reader begin to question Nick’s love and devotion to his wife as every piece of evidence uncovered seems to highlight Nick’s flaws. Implementing a new technique in modern literature, Gillian Flynn manipulates the reader’s …show more content…
In part one with this strategy adopted, Nick Dunn narrates the daily events of the manhunt for his wife in the present tense and, in alternating chapters, the reader is given an excerpt of Amy’s diary from the past about her relationship with Nick leading up to her disappearance. Piling incriminating evidence against Nick, Amy’s diary entries paint her as a devout, loving wife who began to fear the ever brooding, verbally abusive, Nick Dunn even directly stating within her diary, “I catch him looking at me with those watchful eyes… and I think: this man might kill me. So if you find this and I’m dead, well… Sorry, that’s not funny (Flynn 205)”. Every journal passage digs Nick a deeper hole, and paired with his own personal confession of infidelity and his proclamations of discontent with his wife, readers reach the seemingly sound conclusion that Nick kidnapped, or worse, murdered Amy. In the beginning of part two, Gillian Flynn flips the tables on the reader, erasing every preconception of the lovely Amy Dunn: the diary entries, all counterfeit, were written by Amy with the sole intention of framing the real victim of the novel, Nick. The use of Amy’s diary in the novel is to exploit the reader’s emotional attachment to the helpless Amy Dunn caught in an unhealthy relationship and to discredit
Authored by The New York Times bestselling novelist Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl is an alarming look at the downfall of a corrupt marriage characterized by infidelity, discontent, resentment, and, ultimately, psychopathy. The couple’s toxic relationship culminating in tragedy, Nick Dunn arrives home on his fifth wedding anniversary to find his house ransacked and his wife Amy missing. As the police dive into a high stakes investigation in the presumed kidnapping of Amy, the public, police and even the reader begin to question Nick’s love and devotion to his wife as every piece of evidence uncovered seems to highlight Nick’s flaws. Implementing a new technique in modern literature, Gillian Flynn manipulates the reader’s …show more content…
In part one with this strategy adopted, Nick Dunn narrates the daily events of the manhunt for his wife in the present tense and, in alternating chapters, the reader is given an excerpt of Amy’s diary from the past about her relationship with Nick leading up to her disappearance. Piling incriminating evidence against Nick, Amy’s diary entries paint her as a devout, loving wife who began to fear the ever brooding, verbally abusive, Nick Dunn even directly stating within her diary, “I catch him looking at me with those watchful eyes… and I think: this man might kill me. So if you find this and I’m dead, well… Sorry, that’s not funny (Flynn 205)”. Every journal passage digs Nick a deeper hole, and paired with his own personal confession of infidelity and his proclamations of discontent with his wife, readers reach the seemingly sound conclusion that Nick kidnapped, or worse, murdered Amy. In the beginning of part two, Gillian Flynn flips the tables on the reader, erasing every preconception of the lovely Amy Dunn: the diary entries, all counterfeit, were written by Amy with the sole intention of framing the real victim of the novel, Nick. The use of Amy’s diary in the novel is to exploit the reader’s emotional attachment to the helpless Amy Dunn caught in an unhealthy relationship and to discredit