Character Analysis Of Amy's Gone Girl

An important section of Amy’s character development comes from page 233 to midway 234 in Gone Girl. Until this point it was established that Amy was a incredibly genius woman who framed her husband for murder taking a year to do so. She frames him because of his infidelity with a young student of his. The first lines of 233 are, “You know how I found out? I saw them. That’s how stupid my husband is.” This gives Amy sympathy from the reader. She was betrayed by her husband who was so incompetent that she saw him with his mistress. This betrayal to Amy makes her the lost, confused and broken housewife. Amy continues with how she was listening to old scratchy albums and even admits that she was not lying about how Nick and she did this together. I felt sad for Amy, here she was reminiscing with music that gave the gumption to go see Nick spontaneously. Go to The Bar, enjoy drinks, and walk around before kissing in sugar cloud snow. It

Amy admits she thought they were foolish, and that now she is unfortunately one of them. “One of the women with endless stories that make people nod sympathetically and think: Poor dumb bitch”(234). This line is the important in the creation of Amy and killing off Diary Amy. We know that Amy does not end with mediocrity, as normal people do not frame their husbands. Amy, broken and turned into her nightmare does not stay a “Poor dumb bitch.” Amy gets her revenge and teaches Nick a lesson. She becomes a woman to be feared, and I at this point fear and admire her because she turns her life into what she wants. Amy becomes a strong, crazy, delusional, psychopathic ‘bitch,’ and because she chose it over staying the ‘poor dumb bitch’ she is a justice seeking woman who was wronged as opposed to an insane Joker like character who does crazy things for fun and without reason. Amy is a fallen saint who the reader likes and roots for at this