"I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me."
-Nick Dunn, Gone Girl
"Tempest in a teacup" is an idiom that means a disturbance/great commotion over something of little matter. Basically, it's a term used to describe exaggerating things out of proportion.
In the beginning of Gone Girl, most of the conflict between Amy and Nick, the stuff that's making them hate each other/their marriage, is based on things like small miscommunication, deceptions, disappointment. In this day and age, that's not abnormal. Many couples become unhappy with one another, like Amy and Nick, but they don't react the way these two do. Nick lies to and cheats on Amy for being too cold. Amy tries to sentence her husband to the death penalty for cheating on her. While both of these crimes are extremely unfair to the other, the punishments certainly do not fit the crime. The way that they react to each others' faults, mistakes, and failures is the epitome of a "tempest in a teacup".
I also really liked the image above representing the idiom. I felt like it represented both the idiom and Amy and Nick. On the exterior, they seems normal, maybe a little cold like the porcelain mug. But on the inside, there is a storm brewing. Both Nick and Amy are excellent liars and under their seemingly perfect exteriors, there is an insane amount of deceit, hatred, and narcissism. They lie to hide the fact that they are flawed, Nick through the masking and hiding of emotion, and Amy through ceaseless deceptions.
From the beginning of the novel, we know that Nick is hiding something. His dreams about his wife's bloody body, his mysterious second cell phone ringing, and that creepy smile during the press conference held for his missing wife don't suggest that he is entirely innocent. Nick doesn't only lie to the police,Amy, and his family, he lies to us, the readers, as well. When we find out he has a mistress, his motives seem even more questionable than before. On the other side, we don't get to see Amy's darker side and true personality until around the middle of the book, but when we do, we find that Amy has been deceiving everyone and hiding who she is on the inside. Below her pretty exterior, Amy is a woman scorned who is intent on getting revenge but she's exceptionally good at masking it.
-Nick Dunn, Gone Girl
"Tempest in a teacup" is an idiom that means a disturbance/great commotion over something of little matter. Basically, it's a term used to describe exaggerating things out of proportion.
In the beginning of Gone Girl, most of the conflict between Amy and Nick, the stuff that's making them hate each other/their marriage, is based on things like small miscommunication, deceptions, disappointment. In this day and age, that's not abnormal. Many couples become unhappy with one another, like Amy and Nick, but they don't react the way these two do. Nick lies to and cheats on Amy for being too cold. Amy tries to sentence her husband to the death penalty for cheating on her. While both of these crimes are extremely unfair to the other, the punishments certainly do not fit the crime. The way that they react to each others' faults, mistakes, and failures is the epitome of a "tempest in a teacup".
I also really liked the image above representing the idiom. I felt like it represented both the idiom and Amy and Nick. On the exterior, they seems normal, maybe a little cold like the porcelain mug. But on the inside, there is a storm brewing. Both Nick and Amy are excellent liars and under their seemingly perfect exteriors, there is an insane amount of deceit, hatred, and narcissism. They lie to hide the fact that they are flawed, Nick through the masking and hiding of emotion, and Amy through ceaseless deceptions.
From the beginning of the novel, we know that Nick is hiding something. His dreams about his wife's bloody body, his mysterious second cell phone ringing, and that creepy smile during the press conference held for his missing wife don't suggest that he is entirely innocent. Nick doesn't only lie to the police,Amy, and his family, he lies to us, the readers, as well. When we find out he has a mistress, his motives seem even more questionable than before. On the other side, we don't get to see Amy's darker side and true personality until around the middle of the book, but when we do, we find that Amy has been deceiving everyone and hiding who she is on the inside. Below her pretty exterior, Amy is a woman scorned who is intent on getting revenge but she's exceptionally good at masking it.