• M R ANCILIN

Gillian Schieber Flynn, is an American writer known for her psychological thriller novels. In her novels, she gives a strange and suspicious tone to her characters and to her writing. This tone makes the novel more interesting and it attracts the reader’s attention. Gillian Flynn is the author of three successive novels: Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl. Flynn’s novel, Dark Places won Dagger Award and the novels Sharp Objects and Gone Girl were the New York Times bestsellers. Gillian Flynn's third novel Gone Girl is a thriller, mysterious and psychological entertaining tale. The novel tells the story of a Missouri couple Nick and Amy. Amy, the central character grew up in New York with her wealthy parents. She is a beautiful, manipulative, seductive and self-centred psychopath. She could have a narcissistic personality disorder which reveals from her actions. Throughout the novel, she uses strategic calculations on how to deceive other characters and manipulates their behaviour. Amy's manipulations are repeatedly successful because she is very seductive and charming. This paper tends to analyse the narcissistic traits: seduction, manipulation, and rejection of the central character in the novel.

narcissism, manipulation, rejection, seduction.

"Seduction, Manipulation, and Rejectionin Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.837-841, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06175.pdf

"Seduction, Manipulation, and Rejectionin Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp837-841, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06175.pdf