Marriage In Gone Girl

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The novel Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is an amazing example of what not to do in a marriage, the novel also speaks about topics that revolves around marriage like trust,control ,fidelity ,lies , revenge ,and manipulation.The novel starts off with the story of the perfect two and it shows how fast a marriage can fall apart.This novel shows couples to be honest with each other and to communicate,the husband in the novel starts losing the love he had for his wife and he lets it win him over. This book is about all the ways marriage could possibly go wrong,the marriage in this story is full of lies, manipulation, mistrust, and a lack of communication.The story starts off with Amy and Nick Dunne being happily in love, and Nick waking up to …show more content…

This is a clear example that if there are no standards in a relationship than how is a relationship gonna work out? Think of it this way his Amy would have taken a little more control on her husband from the beginning of the marriage ,their marriage wouldn't have started falling apart as fast because she could have been able to tell that something was wrong when he wasn't meeting up to the standards. lies were the major mistake in this marriage, Nick should have told Amy from the first day he cheated instead of having Amy believe that he was being faithful. Nick did not only lie to his wife but to his sister,Amy's parents, and his friends. The lies aren't only in the marriage he also lies to the police when they question him about the disappearance of his wife,this shows that once lies start it's almost impossible to stop because he started off with a little lie about having drinks with a women that was not his wife and the lies escalated to lying about the diatls in a crime

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