Stereotypes In The Film Amazing Amy's Gone Girl

Throughout history, women of all varieties have been repeatedly tyrannized by their male counterparts, unable to advocate for themselves and misguided to believe that they are to figuratively linger under the thumb of their partner. This notion is one largely illustrated in the film at hand; Gone Girl. Amy is a woman who, throughout her life, abided by her friends, family and even the world to be the person they forged her to be. Growing up, Amy was known to the world as “Amazing Amy”; a character in a book based on Amy that was written by her parents that illustrated the illustrious life of a young woman. The sole difference was; “Amazing Amy” was purely a list of shortcomings Amy has faced in her childhood. “Amazing Amy” attracted audiences

Amy may possibly be an absolute sociopath but these measures were only taken to escape the boxes she was enclosed in such as “Amazing Amy” and “cool girl”. Amy’s rationale was debatably reasonable in her thoughts where she says “I am happy that I am dead. Now my lazy, lying, cheating, oblivious husband will go to prison for my murder. Nick Dunne took my pride, and my dignity, and my hope, and my money. He took and took until I no longer existed. Now that is true murder, so let the punishment fit the crime”. In this scheme, Amy advocates solely for herself, regardless of what others may think of her. Now dead to the world, her motives were purely self-serving, defying the stereotype of the loyal, devoted wife that Nick expected her to be. She no longer surrounded her life with Nick and his well-being, thus challenging and undermining patriarchy. Though, this feat could not have been accomplished unaided, which leads to the next

Amy recognized that the world undermined women, but even more so undermined husbands suspected of murder much more actively. Throughout the film Nick was consistently picked apart by women of all kinds in the media, the neighbourhood, and even within his family. As a segment of Amy’s devious strategy, she manipulated, for lack of a better term, what is known as the “girl code”. Amy encountered a local woman who she would tell tales, both true and false, of Nick’s abuse. This local woman would then come into play and illustrate Nick as a monster to the media. Amy knew the type of person Nick was, so she foresaw that he would act nonchalant, leaving the media to diagnose Nick as an uncaring, supposed psychopath unable to express emotion for his wife’s disappearance. During Nick’s case, a local woman took a harmless picture with Nick where he nervously smiled, because it would have been rude not to. Predictably, this picture was exploited by the media to portray that Nick was joyous of his wife’s disappearance. Furthermore, the media found out about Nick’s infidelity. To no surprise, female news anchors tore Nick to shreds. What could possibly be worse than this? Worse than a missing role model? A pregnant missing role model. When it was discovered that Amy was pregnant, females everywhere were enraged. Nick continuously became more disliked until, without