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Amy Elliott Dunne
Nick’s twin sister, Go, is the co-owner of The Bar in downtown Carthage, and Nick’s first and best friend. Go is unconventionally attractive and marches to the beat of her own drum—a little bit of a punk, she loves making lewd and shocking jokes. Go is fiercely independent and has few romantic entanglements—Nick speculates that she, like him, bears the scars of their misogynistic and cruel father’s years of emotional abuse. Because of how close Nick and Go are, they have long endured rumors and taunts of “twincest,” and they are as a result often hyperconscious of the ways in which they both construct and dismantle the boundaries between them. When Amy disappears, Go is, like Nick, not sufficiently distressed—she and Amy never took a liking to one another. Go feels some sympathy for Amy, and even begins to believe that her brother may have killed her—but once Nick solves Amy’s treasure hunt and reveals that Amy has orchestrated the disappearance, and all the strange inconsistencies and pointed clues discovered in its wake, Go is squarely on her brother’s side. She discourages from engaging in stupid behavior like contacting his mistress, Andie, throughout the investigation, but is only able to control her brother so much—unlike Amy, she is not an efficient manipulator, and truly wants her brother to be happy. In the end, when Nick finds himself trapped in Amy’s web, Go experiences a breakdown of sorts, overcome with pain and sadness on behalf of her brother in a fit of despair that not even the numb Nick can see to muster.
Margo “Go” Dunne Quotes in Gone Girl
The Gone Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Margo “Go” Dunne or refer to Margo “Go” Dunne. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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3. Nick Dunne, The Day Of (2)
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“Don’t let [Amy] worry you.” Go lit a cigarette. She smoked exactly one a day. “Women are crazy.” Go didn’t consider herself part of the general category of women, a word she used derisively.
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27. Nick Dunne, Six Days Gone (2)
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“This is going to be a real test for you, Nick,” [Go] murmured, not looking at me. “You’ve always had trouble with the truth—you always do the little fib if you think it will avoid a real argument. You’ve always gone the easy way. […] You’re still fibbing like a little boy. You’re still desperate to have everyone think you’re perfect. You never want to be the bad guy.”
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31. Nick Dunne, Seven Days Gone (2)
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I looked at the puppets. “So she’s giving me the narrative of my frame-up.”
“I can’t even wrap my brain around this. Fucking psycho.”
“Go?”
“Yeah, right: You didn’t want her to be pregnant, you got angry and killed her and the unborn baby.”
“Feels anticlimactic somehow,” I said.
“The climax is when you are taught the lesson that Punch never learns, and you are caught and charged with murder.”
“And Missouri has the death penalty,” I said. “Fun game.”
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Margo “Go” Dunne Quotes in Gone Girl
The Gone Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Margo “Go” Dunne or refer to Margo “Go” Dunne. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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3. Nick Dunne, The Day Of (2)
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“Don’t let [Amy] worry you.” Go lit a cigarette. She smoked exactly one a day. “Women are crazy.” Go didn’t consider herself part of the general category of women, a word she used derisively.
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27. Nick Dunne, Six Days Gone (2)
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“This is going to be a real test for you, Nick,” [Go] murmured, not looking at me. “You’ve always had trouble with the truth—you always do the little fib if you think it will avoid a real argument. You’ve always gone the easy way. […] You’re still fibbing like a little boy. You’re still desperate to have everyone think you’re perfect. You never want to be the bad guy.”
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31. Nick Dunne, Seven Days Gone (2)
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I looked at the puppets. “So she’s giving me the narrative of my frame-up.”
“I can’t even wrap my brain around this. Fucking psycho.”
“Go?”
“Yeah, right: You didn’t want her to be pregnant, you got angry and killed her and the unborn baby.”
“Feels anticlimactic somehow,” I said.
“The climax is when you are taught the lesson that Punch never learns, and you are caught and charged with murder.”
“And Missouri has the death penalty,” I said. “Fun game.”
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