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Gone Girl, by author Gillian Flynn, is written in a first-person narrative style that encompasses two points of view (that of Nick Dunne and Amy Elliott Dunne). The characters must deal with an event set in motion by Nick's infidelity, Amy's need for revenge, and her desire to teach Nick a lesson.
The author uses short sentences and paragraphs, as well as liberal use of an active voice to quickly move the plot along and create a mood of urgency and anxiety, which urges the reader to continue reading.
The main characters in the novel are married, and each has obstacles they must overcome. Nick Dunne must face the problem of a missing wife. He must solve his wife's disappearance to free himself from a possible murder rap. Amy Elliott Dunne's challenge is to stay hidden and not get caught in all the lies and manipulations that she has placed into motion to fake her disappearance.
Gone Girl is divided into three parts:
It follows a 7-point story structure.
It is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary, and Nick reels you in early on with his silent thoughts about his wife, Amy. He asks, ''What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?'' What have they done to one another? What is going on with this relationship? Inquiring minds want to know.
Amy's disappearance on the day of their wedding anniversary is the event that propels the characters into a suspenseful and tension-filled search for the truth.
The tension begins to build as Nick follows a set of cryptic clues left by his wife. These clues lead to a surprise discovery of a shed filled with expensive items purchased by credit cards in Nick's name and one last clue. This clue clarifies for Nick that his wife's disappearance was of her own doing and that she wants to frame Nick for her murder.
Nick must now convince the police and the media that he did not kill his wife. He cannot prove that he has been set-up, so he makes the choice to start using the media to convince his wife to return to him, pretending that he thinks she has been kidnapped and misses her.
Nick's pleas convince Amy to return; however, Amy is trapped in a house with Desi Collings, an old boyfriend who is obsessed with her whom she has asked for help in hiding. Nick is arrested for her murder and then released on bond.
Amy murders Desi Collings after self-abusing herself to make it look like he had been raping her. She then takes a car and drives home, walking up to the front door of their house, as the media watches. Nick now has proof he did not kill his wife but cannot prove she set him up.
Amy is pregnant with Nick's child and tells him if he wants to be in his child's life, he must admit to the credit card purchases he made and destroy the book he just finished titled My Psycho Wife. Nick agrees to her terms and stays with her to protect his child. Nick states, ''I needed to save my son, to try to unhook, unlatch, debarb, undo everything that Amy did.'' Toward the end, he refers to Amy as his ''...forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax.''
Gone Girl was written in a first-person narrative style by Gillian Flynn. Gone Girl is divided into three parts:
It follows a 7-point story structure. The 7-point structure is as follows:
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