Monologue In Gone Girl

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. Using interior monologue literary technique throughout the first and second half of the book, Flynn reveals more about their hidden anger as they boil inside without showing it. Interior monologue is defined to be:
Monologue comes from Greek word monos means alone and logos means speech. It is a literary device, which is the speech or verbal presentation that a single character presents in order to express his/her collection of thoughts and ideas aloud. Often this character addresses directly to audience or another character.
The mono thoughts are obvious in Amy's diary that intends to manipulate readers to think that Nick is guilty. Both Amy and Nick use first person narration in their storytelling process and it highly reveals their anger that they kept inside for most of their miserable marriage years. “People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips. (100)". Amy makes it obvious in this previous quote about how suppressed her emotions are that might be even since her

childhood.
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. This Amazing Amy initiates the second major literary technique used by Flynn. Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense. Amy grows up to be a double faced and cunning woman who lives a life full of deception whose main philosophy in life is "The bigger the lie, the more they believe it."(55.115-117).
When Amy takes off her Amazing Amy pre marriage mask, the result does not make Nick happy as he starts to have a full understand of his wife messed up mind and how he knows so little about her. Nick starts the novel with a creepy description of Amy's head and what is going on inside it as if he claims that his mind is blown by her manipulative character in an interior conversation with his own confused self. "I'd know her head anywhere. And what's inside it. I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her thoughts. (1.2-3)" Nick her uses metaphorical technique describing Amy's thoughts as material objects he can examine. Gone Girl is also criticized by Metro to be a "book about how well one person can truly know another" . One main point about Amy's manipulative character comes from her being used all the time by her parents as Amazing Amy, a fictional character that provides more and more money but still not appreciated enough for it as it is symbolized in a cheap gift of a "cuckoo clock" that is given to her by her parents and it drives her angry as she thinks she deserves more than that.
Moving to the deception Nick Dune, who is just as manipulative as his wife, a man of charm who keeps on hiding things until his wife head explodes out of anger. Nick's faithfulness to his wife no longer exists as he dives into an affair with a younger college girl. When Amy finds out she is directly driven into anger and the desire of revenge knocks on. 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.
Besides this affair, one main reason of their angry relationship is the financial condition. 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 "no jobs, we have no money, there's nothing holding us here. Even you have to admit that. Even I have to? As if I am already being resistant. I feel a burst of anger that I swallow. This is what we're going to do. We are going to do the right thing."(100)
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."
"You already did, Amy." I see the rage flash over him, a shiver. "Why in God's name do you even want to be with me? I'm boring, average, uninteresting, uninspiring. I'm not up to par. You spent the last few years telling me this." "Only because you stopped trying," I say. "You were so perfect with me. We were so perfect when we started, and then you stopped trying. Why would you do that?"
"I stopped loving you." (56.7-10)
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 by Joan Smith 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" 10 Sunday Times."
At this point of Gone Girl, all these internal and external factors and reasons result in one major theme which is revenge as a logical result of anger. Amy is considered to be a master of revenge as she starts a set of actions in order to make Nick pay for what he did. On their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy disappears and her husband is found guilty and a number one suspect by society for her disappearance. As a reader, doubting Nick's innocence exist but later on, Nick tries to come clean trying to prove how mentally disordered his wife is. "I could feel Tanner's doubt. I needed to really show him Amy's character. Her lies, her vindictiveness, her score-settling. I needed other people to back me up—that my wife wasn't Amazing Amy, but Avenging Amy. (37.25)"
As an introduction of another literary technique in Gone Girl, the Punch and Judy puppets show is used as an allusion but as a symbol at the same time. It is an allusion of a crime story and symbols the one that Amy tries to frame Nick for. The story of the Punch and Judy is about a couple and their child: one day, Punch kills his child. When Judy discovers her husband’s crime, she gets killed by her husband. Punch later has to kill all of the people who suspect him of murder, including a doctor hangman, the devil, and a police officer. Punch’s weapon is a club, which is included in a Punch and Judy puppet. This allusion and symbol is used to reveal the angry thoughts of Amy and her mad plotting system that she uses against Nick to seek revenge.
On Amy's dark journey of revenge, she firstly disappears on purpose leaving behind her clues that would make her husband look guilty. Amy leaves her blood stains everywhere, a fake diary of how scary and violent her husband has become and fake pregnancy test. Amy is disguised as Nancy and even tries to commit suicide in order to frame Nick as a murderer. After things get out of control, she calls her obsessed ex-lover, Desi Collings, who tries to hold her captive. Avenging Amy takes advantage of the situation to have a chance of going back home so she begins plotting to kill Desi and frame him into a rape.
Amy actually knew exactly what she was doing because Desi would be easily believed to be a captor or a rapist because of his history that is filled with obsessions, mental disorders and even suicides. Nick on Desi "He talked as if they were engaged, he knew the number and gender of their children" (11.126)
In a conversation with Gillian Flynn, she reveals her thoughts about Amy being an extreme. "She plans, she follows through, she excels, she doesn't settle, she dreams big. She is fully awake and aware. She just takes these qualities to an extreme"(472)
Amy's goals of revenge are confused as she plans for something and ends up doing something else as she did not plan to kill Desi Collings earlier but it can be seen that her passive angry nature evolves to an aggressive level where she starts to express it in violence as the situation becomes more complicated. Amy would clearly do anything to get herself out of troubles even if that would mean she kills someone and one main goal of the mess Amy creates is to teach people lessons. She believes that Nick needs one as she claims what follows:
"But it's so very necessary. Nick must be taught a lesson. He's never been taught a lesson! He glides through life with that charming-Nicky grin, his beloved-child entitlement, his fibs and shirkings, his shortcomings and selfishness, and nobody calls him on anything. I think this experience will make him a better person." (32.13)
When it comes to lessons, Nick is actually taught one as Amy succeeds in making him conform to her word. She goes back home with more lies and people would definitely believe the poor victim of rape and violence. Nick is stuck with her under her threats and totally surrenders. A superficial look would make readers believe that Amy wins but a deeper one reveals that anger destroyed this couple as their love is completely gone living a life of games and hatred and by using revenge to solve the situation, Amy expressed her anger but she also destroyed whatever remains from this fairytale.
“My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?'
He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you.
But he said, "Because I feel sorry for you."
"Why?"
"Because every morning you have to wake up and be you."
Psychologically speaking, Amy suffers a disorder in her personality that makes her keen on seeking revenge. It's called Borderline Personality disorder as explained in the book Punishment and Revenge in Boardline Personality Disorder "In general punishment and seeking revenge can be experienced by everyone. Sometimes there are times when people cannot handle their anger so they would start being evil but sooner they realize that they became too wrong that they go back and apologize. People with BPD cannot make their apologies and if they do, they would go back to their natural actions in no time once their emotions are triggered with anger."(3)
BPD is directly related to psychological damage as its main cause is the background behind it.

Applying this to Flynn's Amy, It is clear that she suffers the same disorder that makes her eager to punish other people and especially Nick thinking that she is always right not matter how messed up her actions are.
As a comparison, In Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Captain Ahab is obsessed with seeking revenge on the great white whale and keeps chasing it, Moby Dick. His long struggle with the whale in the heat of the sea results in the death and destruction of the entire crew except for one person who tells story. The idea of seeking revenge brings destruction and would even lead to losing

lives.
Taking about destruction, one theme highly influences the ideas of Flynn's angry plot which is violence. This violence did not appear immediately but came later as a result of suppressed anger throughout the whole novel. Many scenes represent the violent nature of different characters and make it an irony of how some decent educated persons can be this angry and violent. After a while of introducing hidden anger that is kept inside, Flynn invites readers to the next logical level when things get out of control. Rape and murder are two main violent scenes in Gone Girl. Amy faces two raping situations from two ex-boyfriends, Desi Collings and Tommy O'hara, who later are realized to be victims of Amy's plotting and false words. Amy used this violent lies to get rid of her enemies and actually hurts herself in the process of faking a rape. In similar violent situation that is derived by anger, hurts and cuts her body to leave blood stains everywhere in Nick's mansion. Amy is believed to have a self-destructive nature and that she is willing to seek revenge no matter what happens. Moving to murder, events peak as Amy actually kills Desi collings. readers might sympathize with Amy when they receive information about her rape by Tommy as it is a very normal for a girl to be this evil after going through such heavy violent and destructive situation
Finally, how things go might be thought as total injustice as Amy gets away with whatever she does but in fact she loses whatever she has with Nick as a result of their suppressed anger that resulted in more anger that accelerated to be an aggressive one.