She portrays herself as a loving and devoted wife who begins to feel threatened by her husband. Her diary is fictive in that it is purely inventive Amy is aware that the diary will be found and so she constructs her own version of her marriage and life with Nick. Amy’s blood is found in the kitchen, and Nick struggles to portray himself as a grief-stricken husband desperate to find his wife.įlynn also uses Amy’s diary as a literary device how much do we really know about Amy and Nick’s seemingly perfect marriage? Can we trust what either of them say is the truth?īoth Nick and Amy are unreliable narrators, and Flynn’s inclusion of Amy’s diary further plays with notions of the truth and how we recount and often twist events and memories. Gone Girl falls into many categories of contemporary fiction, but primarily a domestic thriller, it explores the dark heart of a broken marriage as Amy Dunne goes missing and her husband Nick is the prime suspect. This thriller sold millions of copies, and was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. I am starting my compilation with the runaway hit, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Here are a few of my favourite fictional diaries, and I have also included a recently published real life diary too. Diaries are everywhere and always have been, from the musings of Samuel Pepys and Virginia Woolf to fictional favourites such as Bridget Jones and Adrian Mole. I devour them, there’s something that feels forbidden and secret and I always feel a little sense of guilt whilst reading them.
So, instead of attempting (and failing) to write in a diary, I have taken to reading them instead. They capture moments and memories from the mundane and everyday to the extraordinary and historic. However, retweeting and hashtagging and posting a tweet of a hundred or so characters isn’t quite as satisfying as the act of physically writing.ĭiaries are artefacts of the soul. I suppose blogging and twitter are the modern forms of the diary, and I definitely subscribe to using both of those. I’m sure there’s probably a drawer or box in my house stacked with forgotten notebooks and diaries.
Of course this doesn’t materialize and instead, pages are left white and clean as if brand new. New Year’s Day comes, and I vow that I will write in it religiously. In fact, almost every Christmas I have asked for one. Transitioning into adulthood is painful for CeeCee as her anger, doubts, and despair overwhelm her at times, but in the midst of her unwilling journey from child to woman she finds the courage to face her life as well as herself with honesty and a determination to deal with the obstacles that have been thrown in her path.ĭear Diary.is the second book of the Dear approximately the age of ten, I have tried to keep a diary. Born two weeks after her paternal grandmother's death, CeeCee is the spitting image of her, and CeeCee's mother, Allison, devastated by the loss of her mother-in-law who was also her best friend, can't imagine any other name.ĬeeCee fervently wishes her mother had possessed a bit more imagination.Įlsee Caitrin Wilson.a cow name in CeeCee's mind as well as the minds of her classmates.Īs if that isn't enough for a child to handle, CeeCee and her family have to move the summer before she's to start high school, her father develops a disease that's slowly destroying his body as well as her universe, her older brother Mark becomes infatuated with the wicked witch of the southwest, the man she falls in love with loves another, and to top it all off, she can't seem to stop making lists.ĭoes God care? How can a loving God allow those things to happen? Is CeeCee losing her faith? Had she truly ever possessed any? Or is she simply a product of her parents’ blind belief? What if everything she's been taught up until then has simply been a lie? What if God doesn't exist and it's all a hoax?
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