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Summary Of The Bitch Is Back By Amy Dunne

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Amy Dunne is so unlikable because she shares traits with the classic male antagonist and she behaves very badly. She so fully betrays the trust of the reader by using her diary entries to manipulate both the reader and the media into believing she was a person that she is not as she puts on the mask of Diary Amy. How does she do this? One might ask, and embodying the “good” stereotypes places it upon women by a patriarchal society. Amy, however is, according to Sarah Appleton Aguiar in her book The Bitch Is Back, the classic “poisonous bitch” and is obviously “insatiably voracious figure” that thoroughly enjoys “devouring the souls of her victims, she seduces, betrays, murders, castrates, and mercilessly abuses those whose gentler and “finer” natures allow her to trample them” (Aguiar 34). …show more content…

Amy says, “I decided murder wasn’t good enough for you. It had to be bigger than that. Still, I couldn’t get the poisonous idea out of my head. I liked the idea of you working up to the murder” (Flynn 183). Amy achieves her goals as the bitch, by manipulating the female archetypes created by the male gaze. She is able to behave as badly as she does by hiding her true nature, and tricking not only the reader at first, but those who do not know her personally into a false sense of comfort through using these personas. The first of these personas we see is through the diary entries placed by Flynn in between the passages during Amy’s apparent disappearance is the emergence of Amy the “cool

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