We feel for the bright and sparkling girl who has lost a part of herself in the throes of love. Up until we find out Amy is alive, we have read her diaries and feel for her.
I won’t reveal much more of the plot, but I will say that Flynn’s use of the diary is integral to Gone Girl’s success.
#Dear diary book series series#
Amazing Amy, the fictional angelic little girl whom her parents created for their series of books, Diary Amy, the Amy that was pregnant and frightened of her husband, and the real Amy the Amy who has pretended all along to be the “Cool Girl” but has grown to hate her husband and is willing to show us just how much. What follows from this final entry is (spoiler alert!) the fact that Amy is very much alive, and has framed Nick. This diary that Amy has written and made sure will be discovered by probing police has been a work of fiction itself. “I catch him looking at me with those watchful eyes, the eyes of an insect, pure calculation, and I think: This man might kill me.” She later writes that she is pregnant, and afraid for her life. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into a river, if necessary. I don’t feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I feel like something is going wrong, very wrong, and that it will get even worse. “He promised to take care of me, and yet I feel afraid. She carefully threads details into her diary that she knows will be read, and that will paint Nick in the worst possible way: In her diary, Amy is a work of perfection, innocently blinded by love. She portrays herself as a loving and devoted wife who begins to feel threatened by her husband. Her diary is fictive in that it is purely inventive Amy is aware that the diary will be found and so she constructs her own version of her marriage and life with Nick.
Amy’s blood is found in the kitchen, and Nick struggles to portray himself as a grief-stricken husband desperate to find his wife.įlynn also uses Amy’s diary as a literary device how much do we really know about Amy and Nick’s seemingly perfect marriage? Can we trust what either of them say is the truth?īoth Nick and Amy are unreliable narrators, and Flynn’s inclusion of Amy’s diary further plays with notions of the truth and how we recount and often twist events and memories. Gone Girl falls into many categories of contemporary fiction, but primarily a domestic thriller, it explores the dark heart of a broken marriage as Amy Dunne goes missing and her husband Nick is the prime suspect. This thriller sold millions of copies, and was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. I am starting my compilation with the runaway hit, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Here are a few of my favourite fictional diaries, and I have also included a recently published real life diary too. Diaries are everywhere and always have been, from the musings of Samuel Pepys and Virginia Woolf to fictional favourites such as Bridget Jones and Adrian Mole.
I devour them, there’s something that feels forbidden and secret and I always feel a little sense of guilt whilst reading them. So, instead of attempting (and failing) to write in a diary, I have taken to reading them instead.
They capture moments and memories from the mundane and everyday to the extraordinary and historic. However, retweeting and hashtagging and posting a tweet of a hundred or so characters isn’t quite as satisfying as the act of physically writing.ĭiaries are artefacts of the soul. I suppose blogging and twitter are the modern forms of the diary, and I definitely subscribe to using both of those. I’m sure there’s probably a drawer or box in my house stacked with forgotten notebooks and diaries. Of course this doesn’t materialize and instead, pages are left white and clean as if brand new. New Year’s Day comes, and I vow that I will write in it religiously. In fact, almost every Christmas I have asked for one. Since approximately the age of ten, I have tried to keep a diary.
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