Gone Girl Case Study

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This stage of Amy life is similar to Erikson’s fifth stage approach. In this stage, a child becomes a young adult, which responses to role confusion or identity crisis. During this stage, the young adult starts to feel discomfort with others, which lead to stereotyping themselves, their ideals and enemies. (Erikson, 1950, 262-263). Now for Amy, this stage was her feeling threatened by another student, because she was achieving things she wasn’t. She felt someone else was taking her stardom, which was why she took things into her hands and got Hilary out of her life.

Another person Amy had framed was Tommy O'Hara's tragic tale of being framed for rape. She framed him because her ego was hurt when Tommy started to make up excuses not to meet Amy and started dating another girl. Tommy was another powerful example of Amy's needing to control people, and how far she'll go to overpower them (Flynn, 2014, p. 276-277).

Then came Nick, Amy’s husband, now Amy framed him for murdering her. Ok so Nick has an affair, Amy finds out and comes up with a plan to frame Nick. She sets her plan into a process by writes seven years' worth of diary entries, carefully composes the treasure hunt for their fifth anniversary, and begins a friendship with the pregnant Noelle Hawthorne, whose pee she uses to fake her own pregnancy. To set her craziness on the morning of the fifth wedding anniversary, Amy cooks Nick breakfast and tells him she still loves him in order to make it look like the past anniversaries. After Nick leaves she cuts her arm with a knife, cleans up her own blood to make it look like cleaning evidence, and then she trashes the living room just enough to make it look suspicious. Amy is beyond psychotic at, this time, she goes into so much extreme to make Nick pay for what he did. (Flynn, 2014)

Now in this chapter of Amy’s life, we are able to compare her to Erikson’s sixth stage. Which is also the last stage of the approach I can use with Amy’s case. Well during the sixth stage a young adult should begin to share themselves more intimately with others. The explore relationships leading toward longer-term commitments with someone other than a family member (KARKOUTI, 2014). In Amy’s case, this stage was all Nick, and because he betrayed her by having an affair it didn’t go as well she would have wanted.

To sum it up Amy is a very disturbing person. The possibility of her is having bipolar disorders in addition having a crazy childhood because of her relationship with her parents and with her husband. She can go to any extreme in order to have the life she wants.

References

ERIKSON, E. H. (1950). Childhood and society. New York: W.W.Norton.

Flynn, G. (2014). Gone girl: A novel.

Funder, D. C. (2013). The personality puzzle by David C. Funder, 6th ed. S. l.: Cram101.

KARKOUTI, I. M. (2014). EXAMINING PSYCHOSOCIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT THEORIES: A GUIDELINE FOR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE. 135(2), 257-263. doi:10.1111/ijpp.12144