“I killed feminism. Why did I do that? Rats. I did not mean to do that,” Gillian Flynn reports thinking upon completion of her gothic-edged, thriller novel, Gone Girl, a runaway bestseller in 2012. After twenty-four hours hovering under the covers, however, Flynn decided that she was quite comfortable with what she had done.
Why did Flynn think that she had “killed feminism”? Well, the novel, and notable film of the same title (2014), for which Flynn wrote the screenplay, couldbe seen as a scathing allegory of contemporary feminism. Of course, that is not all it is—it is a true page turner that, despite its substantial length, could probably be read in one day, although other duties might have to be set aside. It is the mesmerizing stuff of mystery and mayhem that we see sketched in real
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