Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, a high-tension novel about Nick Dunne and his wife Amy, who disappears in suspicious circumstances on their fifth wedding anniversary. As the story moves between Nick’s perspective and Amy’s increasingly fearful diary entries in the lead-up to the day she disappeared, the evidence all seems to point toward Nick being guilty, and he is quickly caught up in a veritable media storm. However, all is not as it seems, and it eventually becomes clear that the true culprit is the last person anyone would ever have suspected… Gone Girl was one of the top-selling novels of 2012, and was adapted into a film of the same name starring Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck two years later.
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AMERICAN AUTHOR
Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1971.
Notable works:
Sharp Objects (2006), novel
Dark Places (2009), novel
Gillian Flynn began her writing career at U.S. News & World Report and then Entertainment Weekly as a journalist before losing her job at the latter in 2008. Since then, she has focused on fiction, with her novels Dark Places and Gone Girl being published in 2009 and 2012, respectively, and garnering scattered television and film credits in between and afterward.
Her novels have brought a traditionally overlooked archetype into the limelight: the female villain, particularly of the diabolical and sociopathic sort. Considering the conventional female role is one of reliance on male leads (although in more recent years many writers have also made a conscious effort to challenge this trend by creating complex and independent, but nonetheless ‘good’, female characters), Flynn’s writing poses an interesting counterpoint. That is, no one really expects female characters to inhabit a truly, unapologetically villainous role – in this respect, Flynn writes against the grain of the many mystery writers before her.
NICK DUNNE’S WIFE DISAPPEARS, AND ALL THE EVIDENCE POINTS IN HIS DIRECTION
Genre: novel
Reference edition: Flynn, G. (2014) Gone Girl. New York City: Broadway Books.
1stedition: 2012
Themes: infidelity, mystery, family, psychology, society of the spectacle, manipulation
On the morning of Nick Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary, his wife, Amy, disappears, leaving behind only signs of a struggle. Initially his small town of Carthage, Missouri, is on his side, but his reactions to the