Gone Girl (Week 6)

October 30, 2015

Wow, this book just gets better and better. Unfortunately for Nick, things are not looking good. As clean his conscience is, he's really starting to look like the culprit of this crime. Well, in actuality... his conscience isn't so clean. The media is NOT on his side. His passive-aggressive personality, full of irresponsibility and lack of remorse (towards Amy's disappearance seemingly) is coming to light, framing him as an obvious sociopath. Amy's friends are even turning on him, calling him out on national television and asking what he has done to Amy. On top of his reputation disintegrating, they find out that Amy is pregnant prior to her disappearance, and Nick didn't really want kids in the situation they were in prior to Amy's disappearance, due to the job situation. Just the type of information the entire public needed to find out.

Honestly, whatever happened in regards to Amy's disappearance seems staged. Nothing is quite adding up. The crime scene looked ridiculously wrong, totally made to look hasty. Amy's anniversary clues are not making sense to Nick, and he's struggling to figure out what they all mean. The last few clues. Nick really looks like he is guilty, but I don't believe he is. I mean, yeah, he's not showing emotion, he gets aggravated easily, and wait, did I mention that he's cheating on his wife? With his 23-year-old student from his Composition class?? Yeah... that sounds pretty bad. He even told her (her name is Andie) that he doesn't really love his wife. The media doesn't know about that yet, though. And on top of all of that, Amy's diary shows that she was afraid of her own husband, going out to buy a gun as protection from him. That's what the gun was for!!! It all looks terribly bad. If and when the police find Amy's diary, consider Nick finished, because it's disturbing. Amy looks like a victim of emotional abuse, as much as Amy tried to get Nick's attention day after day. Whether Nick is guilty or not, it seems like he will get charged and arrested anyway. I mean, I guess I kinda feel bad for him, but then again, he should've been taking better care of Amy. So really, in an intangible way, Nick's lack of consideration for Amy's well-being could play a major role of the cause of this situation...