MAYA vs AMY DUNNE !!!!

Isn't will be intrstng to watch a battle b/w our Maya and Gone girl Amy Dunne??? But who will win??
Let me know 😉



Or will they become friends on tr similarities??? One cannot know!! 😃

Maya is quite a smarty pants but she's no match to Amy's astute brain. Amy will eat her alive. 😆 She actually staged murder, abduction & rape all by herself whereas Maya needed Samay. Amy is extremely charming giving no idea, whatsoever, to anyone what her little brain thinks of. Maya is much more emotional and totally foolish at times.

Originally posted by: HadhSeJyada

Copied from another thread.

No.

Amy DID NOT have the perfect parents.

Her mother had several miscarried or still born babies. All named "hope" as far as I can recall.

The mother was so twisted she used to celebrate each and every dead kid's birthday with Amy telling how perfect they were, all while reprimanding Amy for her imperfections.

To her parent's she was just business. A way to make money.

Imagine the social pressure on Amy to live up to the "amazingness"?

Amy wasn't even affluent.

She worked as a writer who made quizzes for a magazine. She was laid off weeks after Nick. They had money problems.

Her parents too lost their business during recession. Hence she had to give up her trust fund for them.

She gave up all the remaining money she had to Nick to open the bar.

She might have been born with a silver spoon but her life wasn't perfect either.

Please get your facts cleared before speaking

Warm welcome.

Coming to Maya and Amy, They are way way way different.

The only few similarities is that Maya too has a sick guy trying to woo her with extreme stuff, like Amy had Desi.

Maya's childhood and till she met Arjun, were really really really awful, but that doesn't make Amy's life any good. They both had suffered, though on different levels.

Amy wasn't as insecure as Maya either. Maybe that's because Maya had to deal with way more shit than her.

Maya "loves" Arjun but Amy hates Nick and wants him to be slave to her. They both are controlling, yea.

Amy suffers not from psychopathy but from Borderline personality disorder and narcissim.

Whereas, we see Maya, who is suffering from psychosis, becuase of her delusions regarding Arjun (I feel she's healing and recovering from that because of her now being aware of Arjun's feelings towards her), Obsessive compulsive disorder, Major depressive disorder, psycho motor agitation, and plenty more.

People calling them a psychopath are very very very wrong on so many levels.

Ps: It's Amy "Dunne", not "Dune"

Originally posted by: HadhSeJyada

Copied from another thread.

No.

Amy DID NOT have the perfect parents.

Her mother had several miscarried or still born babies. All named "hope" as far as I can recall.

The mother was so twisted she used to celebrate each and every dead kid's birthday with Amy telling how perfect they were, all while reprimanding Amy for her imperfections.

To her parent's she was just business. A way to make money.

Imagine the social pressure on Amy to live up to the "amazingness"?

Amy wasn't even affluent.

She worked as a writer who made quizzes for a magazine. She was laid off weeks after Nick. They had money problems.

Her parents too lost their business during recession. Hence she had to give up her trust fund for them.

She gave up all the remaining money she had to Nick to open the bar.

She might have been born with a silver spoon but her life wasn't perfect either.

Please get your facts cleared before speaking

Warm welcome.

Coming to Maya and Amy, They are way way way different.

The only few similarities is that Maya too has a sick guy trying to woo her with extreme stuff, like Amy had Desi.

Maya's childhood and till she met Arjun, were really really really awful, but that doesn't make Amy's life any good. They both had suffered, though on different levels.

Amy wasn't as insecure as Maya either. Maybe that's because Maya had to deal with way more shit than her.

Maya "loves" Arjun but Amy hates Nick and wants him to be slave to her. They both are controlling, yea.

Amy suffers not from psychopathy but from Borderline personality disorder and narcissim.

Whereas, we see Maya, who is suffering from psychosis, becuase of her delusions regarding Arjun (I feel she's healing and recovering from that because of her now being aware of Arjun's feelings towards her), Obsessive compulsive disorder, Major depressive disorder, psycho motor agitation, and plenty more.

People calling them a psychopath are very very very wrong on so many levels.

Ps: It's Amy "Dunne", not "Dune"

Originally posted by: CaputDraconis

Interesting. I've not read GG but the childhood pressure being put on Amy viz., living up to the "amazingness" of the Amy from the books sounds like bollocks to me. Amy was a well-read Harvard grad if I'm not wrong. It's the NORM in every Asian/S.Asian household. Parents expect such high levels of competency and put abnormal amounts of pressure on the kids to perform well. Heard of Tiger Mom Amy Chua and tiger parenting? Most kids slip into depression in the long run but nobody goes on to wreak havoc like Amy does to Nick. She could have simply divorced the guy if he was cheating on her, what was the need to plan such an elaborate set up to trap him forever? Nah, she just behaved like an over-entitled brat suffering from an extreme case of narcissistic personality disorder rather than anything else in the movie.

Originally posted by: Darciny

I believe Amy is a psychopath. She definitely does not suffers from Borderline personality disorder. A person with BPD suffers from extreme mood swings and often has a track record of impulsive decisions. Their actions also have no consistency in them. Amy on the other hand, was cold, calculative and cunning. She was charming but lacked conscience. She was all the things which generally a person with BPD isn't.

I think someone who has more knowledge of these things will be able to throw more light on it. But as per my knowledge, Amy definitely isn't suffering from BPD

Amy was called a mind f**king sociopath in the book. While I am no expert on psychology and stuff, I think she was definitely more of a socio/psychopath than a sufferer of personality disorder. She had one persona throughout her life - that of dominance- unless she pretended to be a cool girl. She clearly told she was pretending. Does an MPD patient can detect that?

I agree with Caput. Her parents had high expectations from her. They wanted her to pursue chello, tennis etc. They plagiarized her childhood through the amazing amy books but I really don't think that compelled her to be a menacing sociopath. They were passive aggressive but not at all cruel. Moreover she wanted her and Nick to be like her mom and dad. They were apparently a perfect 10/10 couple in her eyes. She was dangerous right from the childhood. She framed her high school bestie Hilary Handa for stalking & attacking and made sure she was on restraining order.

Oh btw, her mother celebrated all the 6 Hopes' birthdays but she never contended that they were perfect. It was Amy's perception. Amy thought they were perfect.

Originally posted by: FleurBleue

Amy was called a mind f**king sociopath in the book. While I am no expert on psychology and stuff, I think she was definitely more of a socio/psychopath than a sufferer of personality disorder. She had one persona throughout her life - that of dominance- unless she pretended to be a cool girl. She clearly told she was pretending. Does an MPD patient can detect that?

I agree with Caput. Her parents had high expectations from her. They wanted her to pursue chello, tennis etc. They plagiarized her childhood through the amazing amy books but I really don't think that compelled her to be a menacing sociopath. They were passive aggressive but not at all cruel. Moreover she wanted her and Nick to be like her mom and dad. They were apparently a perfect 10/10 couple in her eyes. She was dangerous right from the childhood. She framed her high school bestie Hilary Handa for stalking & attacking and made sure she was on restraining order.

Oh btw, her mother celebrated all the 6 Hopes' birthdays but she never contended that they were perfect. It was Amy's perception. Amy thought they were perfect.

Originally posted by: HadhSeJyada

Copied from another thread.

No.

Amy DID NOT have the perfect parents.

Her mother had several miscarried or still born babies. All named "hope" as far as I can recall.

The mother was so twisted she used to celebrate each and every dead kid's birthday with Amy telling how perfect they were, all while reprimanding Amy for her imperfections.

To her parent's she was just business. A way to make money.

Imagine the social pressure on Amy to live up to the "amazingness"?

Amy wasn't even affluent.

She worked as a writer who made quizzes for a magazine. She was laid off weeks after Nick. They had money problems.

Her parents too lost their business during recession. Hence she had to give up her trust fund for them.

She gave up all the remaining money she had to Nick to open the bar.

She might have been born with a silver spoon but her life wasn't perfect either.

Please get your facts cleared before speaking

Warm welcome.

Coming to Maya and Amy, They are way way way different.

The only few similarities is that Maya too has a sick guy trying to woo her with extreme stuff, like Amy had Desi.

Maya's childhood and till she met Arjun, were really really really awful, but that doesn't make Amy's life any good. They both had suffered, though on different levels.

Amy wasn't as insecure as Maya either. Maybe that's because Maya had to deal with way more shit than her.

Maya "loves" Arjun but Amy hates Nick and wants him to be slave to her. They both are controlling, yea.

Amy suffers not from psychopathy but from Borderline personality disorder and narcissim.

Whereas, we see Maya, who is suffering from psychosis, becuase of her delusions regarding Arjun (I feel she's healing and recovering from that because of her now being aware of Arjun's feelings towards her), Obsessive compulsive disorder, Major depressive disorder, psycho motor agitation, and plenty more.

People calling them a psychopath are very very very wrong on so many levels.

Ps: It's Amy "Dunne", not "Dune"

Waw you have some gr8 points!! Wel i editd it to 'Dunne', thnku fo pointing out 😃