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Honestly, towards the end of Part One I had completely given up hope for Nick. The evidence was so strong against him and when he went out to the shed and thought nonononono  I believed we would find Amy’s decaying body inside. Then I flipped the page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So yeah, that was my basic reaction to part two of Gone Girl. Everything I had thought I knew about Amy was a total lie. She had literally created a character to take her place, to mess with the reader’s mind and turn them against Nick the way the police and the media betrayed him. When I started the book, I was first on Nick’s side. He seemed kind of messed up but Amy seemed really demanding and manipulative. As part one went on, however, I grew to pity Amy more and more. By the end I thought Nick had to have done it and that maybe Gillian Flynn had known that the reader would think that the killer would not be Nick because that was too obvious so that then the least obvious thing to do was to make Nick the killer. That’s how good Amy’s scheme was. I had to justify that to myself. The woman is so messed up, so evil, I was literally crying over how disturbed I was by her.

I was the most creeped out by this section of Amy’s confession:

“I remember always  being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and making face, and I would try to do that too, but I wouldn’t understand why. I would sit there with tight elastic thread of the birthday hat parting the pudge of my underchin, with the grainy frosting of the cake bluing my teeth, and I would try to figure out why it was fun.”

But looking back on it, it’s just kind of sad. Clearly there is something wrong with Amy. Probably due to the way she was raised, but it has to run deeper than that. She actually is insane. A sociopath or something. She is smart and meticulous but has no real grasp on her emotions. Which is actually pretty good for her, since the only times she messes up are when those tiny shreds of humanity come out.