Imagine going to work one day and coming back home to your wife missing, the door left wide open and no evidence to give you a clue to where she is or what has happened. I am reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and I am on page 71. It started off with two people who were both writers and moved from New York to Missouri to get married. One day Nick Dunn came home because he got a phone call from his neighbor saying his cat was outside again. When Nick went inside he saw a table tipped over, the iron still on, and the door wide open, all things that his wife, Amy, would never do. While reading Gone Girl, I have been questioning, visualizing, and predicting. One question I have about this book is why Nick has been cheating on Amy. I think he cheated on her because, work was getting harder and he just wasn’t happy with Amy anymore. Nick also has a drinking problem and I could see him driving home seeing the cat and then being confused when he saw the front door was open. He walks inside yelling “Amy” but there is no answer. He then continues walking through the house and comes into the living room and sees the coffee table kicked over and broken. Books were all over the floor and the ottoman was on its back with the feet facing upwards. Then Nick saw a pair of sharp scissors on the floor and he continued to yell “Amy”. Another part that I can visualize is when Nick was at the police station being questioned. I could see him picking up the phone to call Amy’s parents to tell them she was missing and then hearing his father in the other room yelling at an officer, which adulterated the situation even more. He was calling her names. The police officer said, “The nursing home has been trying to contact him all day, your father walked out through an emergency exit and was walking down by the river.” (Page
I really liked the book because I can relate to how Nick can feel. The author’s writing style was really good for me because it makes the book feel like it goes by fast and I like books that feel like they go by fast. The characterization was really good it gave an explanation of who the characters are and how they act. The theme of the book doesn’t camouflage your feelings. The conflict is between Nick and his feelings because ever since his parent’s divorce he doesn’t know how to feel to situations that happen in the book. The beginning plot of the story is when the parents get a divorce. The middle plot of the story is when Nick’s appendix burst and Nick’s mom comes from Kentucky to check in on him, and later Nick’s parents announce that they’re getting back together. The ending plot is when Nick gets in a fight with Dean and Don twins that have bullying Nick and Coby for a while although Nick loses he scared Dean and Don away and he got his bike back that they stole from him. I would recommend this book to a friend. I would recommend this to a friend who can relate to
Nick is the narrator and observer of the story. The only information about him is that he is Mels best friend, Laura...
lingering thoughts of the past. During the chapter, Nick uses a flashback to tell about
Finally, Nick’s inability to involve himself emotional with anyone is also a problem. He is more of a bystander than a participant. He fears of being close to anyone, and mostly just gets along with everything. That is a problem. He needs to find someone to listen to, instead of him always being the listener. This emotional distance, which he has, is not a healthy thing for him and can cause him to end being a loner.
He wasn’t happy being with her anymore. He had cheated on Amy with one of his students at a college, and fell in love with her. Amy found out and soon wanted revenge on him. She decided that she would frame Nick for murdering her. “...I began to think of a different story, a better story, that would destroy Nick for doing this to me. A story that would restore my perfection…” (Flynn 234). She had and stole Nick’s money, left presents for him all over town, and staged a “crime scene” in their living room. When Nick went to the police, they were already suspicious. Nick’s sister Margo realizes what she’s doing and states “She’s keeping Nick running in circles, she’s amusing herself. I’m sure she was happy just knowing what a guilt trip it must be for Nick to be reading all these sweet notes…” (Flynn 256). While Amy was hiding out and enjoying herself, “She was gone, yet she was more present than anyone else” (Flynn 214). Nick would’ve never thought she was willing to go to such great lengths to get back at him. He never really knew her at all, it
The book overall is a very hard book to understand because of the way it was written and the time frame in which the book was taking place in and the complexity of the characters the book has. Nick Caraway is particularly difficult because he is not only a major character to keen into he is also telling the story a year later and reflecting his thoughts on how he behaved. Nick holds the qualities of slow judgement on people he meets but he only does this because it was infused in him at a young age by his father and he is very practical with what to do and how to do it also he has some integrity to him and knows how to handle himself as a man. Nick must be understood because he is not only the man caught in the cross fire
Through Nick’s stream of unconsciousness in the following lines: "Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life,” (p. ) the reader learns how Nick is completely lost as he cannot identify himself apart from the others. Nick continues this idea as he says how he “felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others.” This line shows how Nick justifies his lifestyle as he suggests other have it too.
He walked very slow to the podium, while the courtroom was dead silent. Mike started questioning Nick about the day Myrtle was killed. He asked about what they were doing, where they were going, who was with who, and so on. Mike made sure to ask every question possible to create a picture in the jury’s mind to understand how it all started and how it ended. Under oath, Nick answered all the questions honestly. He told the story that he would tell to Mike when he was younger. After he was done, both lawyers had no further questions for Nick, and as he was getting down from the podium he collapsed from a heart
When he first walks in Nick judges Tom and Daisy's lives based on the appearance of the house, perfect and romanticized, yet he soon learns that this first impression is an overstatement. Nick's use of diction such as 'fragilely bound' (12) and 'French windows' (12) connote that their lives may look perfect on the outside but in reality they're brittle on the inside, since the words fragile and French suggest that their lives are breakable. His choice of diction also suggests an impersonal feel to the house, as if the people inside it are living a bland and dull life. As Nick walks farther in he compares the 'frosted wedding cake of the ceiling' to the 'wine- colored rug' implying both Purity and corruption. He views the cake-ceiling as pure since wedding cakes denote the meaning of innocence and purity but compares the innocence with wine which suggests corruption and impurity. Again, this comparison shows that Tom and Daisy's lives look pure as cake, however in reality their life is as corrupted as wine.
... to find his wife..as characters find what they are looking for they leave the boarding house..thus the audience can predict what's going to happen as they read.." ( Ross 37).
I have never written a book review before so this is going to be little difficult. But I really would like to share my two cents. Does not marriage binds two people together for good or worse. Well, here these two are having normal setbacks like losing the job, money issues, family problems like illness or disability and does not agree with each other opinions. However, they don't want voice it to each other instead they think the other person should understand them somehow. It's confusing I know. Gone Girl is truly unbelievable. when you thought you know what's gonna happen next but it takes u-turn from nowhere. You are left hanging with no thread. Truly, this story is about people who are sociopath and narcissist. They are actually made for
Nick attempts to deceive the reader at the beginning of the novel by describing himself as a man who is inclined to reserve all judgments (3). But Nick actually evaluates everyone based off his own bias judgments. He describes Jordan Baker as an incurably dishonest (57) and careless person (58). Tom and Daisy are careless people who “smash-up things and creatures and then retreat back into their money or vast carelessness” (179), according to Nick’s description. He describes Mr. McKee as feminine (30). Nick also describes George Wilson as a spiritless man (25). He is effectively not reserving his judgments. This deception and lying from Nick is another reason why he is an unreliable narrator, which goes against how Nick generally describes himself as an honest man who reserves all judgments, showing his non-objective stance.
Her husband rejects the idea of her having any social interaction and does not allow her to have contact with anyone other than himself and Jeanie. She attempts to write for entertainment but she becomes too tired and soon the only source of entertainment for the Narrator is the wallpaper. She begins to look for patterns to ease her
... Nick makes a small funeral for Gatsby and Daisy does not attend it. He took the blame for her, and he is dead all because of her, he sacrificed for her. She and Tom decide to travel and take off. Also Nick breaks up with Jordan, and he moves back to Midwest because he has had enough of these people, and hates the people that were close to Gatsby and for bareness, emptiness, and cold heart they have of the life in the middle of the wealthy on the East Coast. Nick realizes, and reveals that Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was ruined by money and un-loyalty, dishonestly. Daisy all she cared about is wealth, she chased after the men that have a lot of money. Even though Gatsby has control, influence, and authority to change his dreams into making it into real life for him this is what Nicks says makes him a good man. Now both Gatsby’s dream and the American Dream are over.
Nick is more of a spectator than an actor in the story. He is just an