I. The female characters in Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl have some significant characteristics which make them different from a traditional woman.
A. Flynn creates the female characters such as Amy Elliott Dunne and Margo Dunne who are the “stronger women characters [and] living in the realistic world” (Faludi 226).
1. Amy and Margo are not the traditional women because they do not spend their lifetime on cleaning house, finding husband or raising a child.
2. Amy is different from the traditional woman who does all the household chores by herself, desperately seeking for a husband and wants to be a mother.
a. Amy may do some chores such as cooking and taking care of clothes but she hires a housekeeper to do most of the chores.
b. She does not mind
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Nick’s mother can be another example of independent woman.
1. Nick’s mother earns her independence after her divorce her abusive husband. (67)
2. While living with Nick’s father, Nick’s mother does not have any power or independence.
3. Nick informs that after his mother divorce his father, she is able to get a job.
4. His mother is “a forty-year-old woman [who] [looks] for a work for the first time” (127).
IV. The female characters including Amy Dunne, Sharon Schieber and detective Boney can be considered as modern intelligent women.
A. Amy can be the representative of an intelligent woman because of her educational background, her ability to plotting a crime and understanding human behavior.
1. Amy graduates from Harvard University, master’s degree in psychology.
2. According to her educational background, she is capable of studying and understanding human behavior.
a. Nick repeats several times how clever Amy is.
b. For instance, she “[is] clever, withering [and] sarcastic” (24) and her works “[are] smarter – she [has] a master’s in psychology” (50).
c. She seems to love working and using her knowledge.
d. She mentions that she is a writer who writes “personality quizzes” (11) for magazine and she is proud of her