Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Nick and Amy Dunne are celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary on a hot July morning in North Carthage, Missouri. When Nick’s witty and attractive wife vanishes, bookings are made and gifts are wrapped. Husband-of-the-Year Nick’s embarrassing daydreams about the slope and contour of his wife’s head aren’t helping himself, but excerpts from Amy’s diary show that the alpha-girl perfectionist could have made anyone tense. The town’s golden boy parades an unending string of lies, deceptions, and inappropriate behaviour under increasing pressure from the police, the media, as well as Amy’s fiercely devoted parents. Nick is certainly bitter and curiously secretive, but is he actually a murderer?
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
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It’s a murder mystery in this novel. The subject of this novel is a potential murder mystery. The story is portrayed from the perspective of Nick, an individual who is currently married to Amy. Nick was raised in a less-than-ideal environment by an unloving father who harbours extremely outdated and virulently anti-feminist beliefs. He does, however, have a close bond with his devoted mother and twin, so there’s that. The first section of the novel is told from her old diary, and the book is written from the perspective of Nick’s wife as well. As a result, Nick from the present and Amy from the past are telling us the story. Amy is the lone child and beneficiary of a trust fund of two authors who produced children’s books about her upbringing that brought her millions of dollars.
The book opens with Nick waking up to find Amy making crepes for him on their fifth wedding anniversary. This is the morning of the Event. Then, when Nick gets home from work, he discovers Amy missing and the scene of a battle. What happened to Amy, is she still alive, and did Nick kill her are the subjects of the remaining chapters of the novel.
As the book draws to a close, the reader grows increasingly frustrated by his inability to capture her confessions on a recording device and the extremely gullible police’s lack of concern. Then, horror of horrors, she uses those tiny sperm to sentence Nick AND THE BABY to a lifetime of misery with her. Naturally, Gillian ends the book there, leaving us to wonder whether she miscarries and whether Nick ever exacts retribution. Because such is The Story—the tale of a couple whose daily lives are marked by ups and downs that never stop, by manipulation taken to the nth degree. The fact that Nick still loves Amy and truly enjoys being with her in a strange, twisted way serves as the author’s escape route. His situation is not that horrible. He will never be able to unwind, sleep soundly like he is so proud of, or turn away from his wife ever again. But hey, at least they occasionally have fun, right?
