In many novels that depict the story of relationship, a woman meets a man throughout the plot in social institutions such as school, at a party, at the mall, or even online. Soon this couple falls in love, and eventually decides to tie the knot;...

As the biggest literary phenomenon of 2012, Gone Girl, penned by former television critic Gillian Flynn, was at one point a household item, commonplace among coffee tables, airplanes, and offices alike. Ubiquitous among both the older and younger...

Marriage will always have its share of imperfections, subtle and explicit, but the espoused in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl suffer from a bundle of...

Out of the Past (1947), directed by Jacques Tourneur, contributes to the classical detective film genre that flourished throughout the 40s and 50s. Kathie Moffat encompasses the elements of the genre’s femme fatale, who falls in love with a man...

In Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, there is one reason in which the reader never suspects Amy as the criminal, and that is her use of the double unreliable narrator. In most books, the reader immediately can tell when the narrator is inaccurate; they...

The gothic influence is still undeniably present on contemporary fiction. Although this influence is rather obvious in most of cases, it is more complex that it seems in some works, specifically in the creation of certain atmospheres or the...