Manipulation In Gone Girl

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In Gone Girl, anger is mainly derived by many reasons and one of the main reasons is deception and manipulation. This main factor drives protagonists to their breaking point where their anger speaks loudly. Amy and Nick represent an angry married couple who manipulate and deceive each other and their whole society. Amy is the perfectly cool girl who is funny, smart, pretty and successful and was always referred to be the fictional Amazing Amy. Being compared to a fictional character that was originally created by her parents pressured her since her childhood to be something she is not and to try to achieve everyone's high expectations of her. Amy grows up to be a double faced and cunning woman who lives a life full of deception whose main philosophy …show more content…
When they left New York City on a demand of Nick without even consulting Amy, they both lose their jobs and Nick starts to turn on Amy's money for funding his business and conflicting rage grows between them p100…….

And ever since this point, Amy and Nick's marriage has changed a lot since they first met as it became boring and all the sparks and wildness of this perfect couple are gone. "I can ruin you nick quote ……….
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As a natural reaction of a jealous woman who thinks her husband does not like her anymore and has already changed his mind about their marriage, Amy starts a series of manipulative actions as a result of her anger in order to protect herself and avenge her side.
For a wider glimpse, Gone Girl is believed to be a thriller that even manipulates the reader. In the first half of the book, it tries to make you think that Amy is total innocent and as it develops you start to see more about how Nick is being framed into something he did not commit and how Amy is a brilliant cunning murderer. "There are hints that all is not as it seems. One version of events hides another in a novel that clearly manipulates the reader" Joan Smith, Sunday

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