Gone Girl Characters

Misunderstood man or malicious murderer? Abused child or abusive husband? Loving spouse or lonely adulterer? Throughout Gone Girl, Nick Dunne appears to be many things. Some of them we know to be t...

You couldn't ask for a clearer portrait of the All-American Girl than Amy Elliott Dunne. She's funny, smart, has a great personality, and in the appearance department, she's a total number one stun...

Andie Hardy is a home wrecker worthy of being the subject of an angry country music song. A student in Nick's magazine writing class, she enters into an affair with him about a year before the book...

When Nick first hears the name of Tanner Bolt's wife, Betsy, he initially pictures "a diminutive blonde Southern-belle white girl" (41.75). In reality though, she's a tall, slender black woman who...

Sheesh, what is it with all these characters having relationships with people that are stalkerish, possessive freaks? Desi Collings, please join Amy Elliott Dunne and Andie Hardy in the Dysfunction...

Rhonda Boney is so tough, so thoroughly committed to the law, that if she and Law and Order: SVU's Olivia Benson went up against each other on Fictional Chick Detectives Death Match, we think Boney...

An ex-prosecuting attorney turned talk show host, Ellen Abbott is the vicious front woman of Ellen Abbott Live, a cable show that caters to the stories of women who have been killed, kidnapped, and...

We actually don't even really know if Greta is the real name of the blonde, abused woman Amy meets at the Hide-A-Way cabins. Amy thinks it "sounds made up" (36.32) when she introduces herself the d...

When we first hear of Hilary Handy, she's a potential suspect for Amy's disappearance. According to Amy's parents, she was kind of an Amazing Amy groupie back in high school—she was not only Amy'...

Desi's mom, Jacqueline, is a huge clue that something is super wrong with her son. For one thing, when she first met Amy, she whispered good luck in her ear and "coldly" (11.126) kissed her cheek....

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale… of Jeff, the Hide-A-Way Cabins' very own fish smuggler. On the surface, he seems pretty harmless—initially, Amy describes him as "a hippie dropout of...

Nick and his sister, Margo (better known as Go), are definitely the Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia of Gone Girl, a twintastic team working together to navigate the dangerous universe under Darth...

Mama Maureen appears in a very brief portion of the book, but the role she plays is pretty crucial: her battle with stage-four cancer is the motivating factor for Nick's return to North Carthage. S...

If there's any good in Nick, it comes from Go and his mom. If there's anything bad, nasty, or unrespectable about him—and you know there is—it comes from his dad. After a childhood filled with...

Noelle may call herself Amy's best friend, but she's really one of the most important pawns in the master plan to undo Nick. Noelle isn't particularly smart, which is precisely why Amy chooses her....

Rand and Marybeth Elliott are the kind of parents who should really have their own corny 1950s-style family sitcom. Their marriage is completely perfect—as Amy describes it, "They have no harsh e...

Sharon Schieber is the top-rated network newswoman who gives Nick the game-changing interview that lures Amy back home. She's basically everything Ellen Abbott dreams about being at night, mostly b...

Did you know that there's such a thing as kidnapping investigation groupies? Yeah, neither did we. Shawna Kelly, however, enlightens us to the existence of flirty, middle-aged women who prey on the...

North Carthage is a town filled with economic discontent and failed dreams, and no one personifies these misfortunes more than Stucks Buckley. At one time, Stucks was an aspiring baseball player, b...

Remember Billy Flynn, the hotshot celebrity lawyer played by Richard Gere in the film version of the musical Chicago? That's our man Tanner Bolt, the choice attorney of jerk husbands suspected of k...

Like Hilary Handy's story of Amy's frame-up back in prep school, Tommy O'Hara's tragic tale of being framed for rape reveals Amy's manipulative tendencies. Amy dated Tommy briefly between when she...