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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is a psychological thriller targeted towards teenagers and young adults that portrays frightening portraits of psychopathy. The novel is in a narrative format, with a couple of journal entries. The point of view changes from Nick Dunne to Amy Dunne multiple times, both in first person point of views. The themes of Gone Girl are revenge, dissatisfaction, and manipulation. Revenge is shown in Gone Girl as one of the main reasons why Amy Elliott Dunne took action. The root of Amy’s desire for revenge is the disloyalty of her husband, Nick Dunne, for he cheated on Amy with a young student from his magazine writing class for over a year. For years, her target of her revenge has been her husband, showing the extreme amount

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