The Girl on the Train is narrated by three woman: Racheal, Anna, and Megan. This tells the story through a female’s perspective while Gone Girl is narrated by Nick and Amy which tells their story through a female and male perspective. Both novels deal with the idea of a missing woman. The characters past experiences deal with children, moving away from home, their childhood and their parents. These reasons all show to have a more powerful impact on the characters and their spouses than the impact of infidelity does on their marriage.
We live in a society that believes woman are valued for two things: their looks and their roles as mothers. This idea plays a huge role throughout both of these novels. The main focus is on the conceiving of a …show more content…
Some of these reasons include unresolved problems, childhood baggage, career problems, boredom or to validate their manhood or womanhood. In The Girl on the Train, Tom has affairs during both of his marriages. Tom takes the opportunity to sleep with Anna as he can excuse it by saying that Racheal was depressed because of her not being able to have children and that her drinking had increased rapidly. Racheal knew that “Tom’s whole life was constructed on lies” (Hawkins. 2015. Pg 172 ) but loved him anyways. Tom married and started a family with Anna, his former mistress. Tom although in a loving, happy family still had an affair with Megan who was also married. Megan also cheats on Scott with her therapist, who later calls it off and says that it is an inappropriate relationship. The infidelity committed by Tom and Megan both result in their own death. Scott is not that innocent either as he cheats on his missing wife with Racheal but unlike Tom and Megan, Scott realises that he was at fault and that the alcohol, depression and loneliness got to him. In Gone Girl Nick loses his job, Amy is not talking to him and he is dissatisfied with his marriage which brings him to cheat on Amy with a college student named Andie. Where Nick once felt that Amy’s “love was like drugs or booze or porn: There was no plateau.” (Flynn. 2012. Pg 202) he comes to realise that he does not love her anymore. Amy on the other hand sleeps with Desi in order for her story to make sense so that she can return home to Nick after faking her own
We live in a society that believes woman are valued for two things: their looks and their roles as mothers. This idea plays a huge role throughout both of these novels. The main focus is on the conceiving of a …show more content…
Some of these reasons include unresolved problems, childhood baggage, career problems, boredom or to validate their manhood or womanhood. In The Girl on the Train, Tom has affairs during both of his marriages. Tom takes the opportunity to sleep with Anna as he can excuse it by saying that Racheal was depressed because of her not being able to have children and that her drinking had increased rapidly. Racheal knew that “Tom’s whole life was constructed on lies” (Hawkins. 2015. Pg 172 ) but loved him anyways. Tom married and started a family with Anna, his former mistress. Tom although in a loving, happy family still had an affair with Megan who was also married. Megan also cheats on Scott with her therapist, who later calls it off and says that it is an inappropriate relationship. The infidelity committed by Tom and Megan both result in their own death. Scott is not that innocent either as he cheats on his missing wife with Racheal but unlike Tom and Megan, Scott realises that he was at fault and that the alcohol, depression and loneliness got to him. In Gone Girl Nick loses his job, Amy is not talking to him and he is dissatisfied with his marriage which brings him to cheat on Amy with a college student named Andie. Where Nick once felt that Amy’s “love was like drugs or booze or porn: There was no plateau.” (Flynn. 2012. Pg 202) he comes to realise that he does not love her anymore. Amy on the other hand sleeps with Desi in order for her story to make sense so that she can return home to Nick after faking her own