Marriage Can Be A Real Killer

New York Times bestselling author of ‘Sharp Objects and Dark Places’ released her second bestseller, ‘Gone Girl’ in June 2012. Gillian Flynn’s ‘Gone Girl’ was published by Crown Publishers in New York. ‘Gone Girl’ is a novel about Nick and Amy Dunne’s marriage. Nick loses his journalist job, and moves him and Amy, from New York, which is Amy’s hometown, to his hometown, North Carthage, Missouri. In North Carthage, Nick opens up a bar with his sister Margo using Amy’s trust fund. On their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy goes missing. Eventually, the police point fingers at Nick and place him as the lead suspect because he used her money to start a bar, he increased her life insurance, and he seems very unemotional on camera. In the first part of the book the reader doesn’t know whether Nick is guilty or not. The book is told in first person through Amy and Nick; however Nick’s perspective is from the present while Amy’s is told from past journal entries. We later find out that Nick has been having an affair with a younger woman, Andie, and that Amy is alive and hiding, trying to frame Nick for her “death”.

There are many strengths of the book. One strength would be how the story is both from Nick and Amy’s perspectives, because the reader gets a better understanding of what is going on from two different viewpoints. Another strength would be the suspense to the novel. The reader doesn’t know whether or not Nick is guilty, and therefore makes the reader more interested to read and find out. However, there are a few shortcomings of the book. One shortcoming would be that the reader never gets a feel for what the other characters are thinking, which forces them to make assumptions about what they are feeling or thinking. Another short...

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...honest about his affair, while Amy is dishonest about her “disappearance”. The media works it’s magic, and makes the viewer’s believe that Nick is to blame for what has happened. Both Nick and Amy have lost their jobs to the economy. No one needs print magazines when they can get whatever they need on the web. ‘Gone Girl’ may be a bestseller now, but in twenty years readers will have moved on with bigger and better novels.

Gillian Flynn writes in a very complex and descriptive way. The imagery that Flynn uses is very vivid. The way she describes the setting makes the reader fully imagine what it is like. Flynn also writes in a serious but mysterious tone for this novel. This novel will fulfill most reader’s expectations. As a reader, they can never fully expect what will happen next, keeping interest for the reader all throughout the book from beginning to end.