In Gone Girl the marriage between Nick and Amy was very interesting. Both Amy and Nick describe their first few years in a positive light. They seemed very much in love, yet toward their third and fourth years, things quickly went downhill. The marriage failed, but why? Whose fault was it? In the beginning of the book Nick gives off very good signs that he isn't trying to bring the marriage back together as each anniversary get progressively worse. But we then see Amy could just be very annoying. If Amy was annoying I think Nick was doing great by not lashing out at her for so long, but he showed no signs of wanting her to stop being annoying which is why it is mostly Nick's fault. If one side in a marriage is unable to express his/her feelings toward their partner then they can't possibly have a good marriage. In the events that Amy disappears he shows great distress showing that he didn't give up completely on the marriage.
Amy could also have failed in her part by letting this whole ordeal get worse. What she did was let the marriage get worse by thinking it would just blow over. This could have led to her going missing because she thought it was better to just be understanding while Nick was in his dark phase. But we figure out Nick is not what we found him as in the beginning of the story. Nick becomes a character we don't want to hate but are forced to because of what he does. Nick skips the anniversary and goes to a strip club, cheats on Amy, and much more. When we see Nick be suspected of killing Amy it isn't too far fetched because he comes off as very creepy on the very first page when he says, "You could imagine the skull quite easily." One doesn't normally talk about skulls or how perfectly shaped a skull is unless you're a little morbid. This book had characters that ended up being contributors to the very own problems they were involved in.
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