Betrayal In Gone Girl

Betrayal is a large topic, to narrow it down we will define it by the traditional dictionary definition, as well as the pop culture definition. Traditionally betrayal is defined as, “to be unfaithful in guarding, maintaining, or fulfilling or to disappoint the hopes or expectations of; be disloyal to.” The pop culture definition according to the Urban dictionary is, “Putting loyalty in someone, and them turning theirs on you. Friends stabbing you in the back. The most hurtful thing anyone can do.” We will narrow it down a bit by focusing on adult betrayal. Between personal interviews and the movie Gone Girl, betrayal not only affects you and the other person, but your body and even the time and space around you. One interview lead to expressions of betrayal by her own mother. It was expressed that the actions were terrible, but the idea of this happening was more hurtful than the actions themselves. The time around her slowed down as well as sped up during the betrayal. She lost all sense of what was real and relied on her brother to pull her through this situation. The other in her story was full of anger and increasingly entered into her own personal space. She expressed feelings of weightlessness and not having a clear idea of
While her experience happened many years ago the tightness in her stomach came back as she told me her story. Her sister is the one who ended up betraying her and she expressed a feeling a unbelievability. As the experience was happening she instantly pushed her sister away figuratively. She created a space that she did not want her sister to even attempt to come into. At first time slowed down while she was trying to grasp what had just happened, then it was blur of anger. She felt her stomach tighten with knots and her heart raced with anger. The audacity of what her sister did was unforgivable. While they have a relationship now they and not as close as they once