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bought the stuff in the woodshed and hid the stuff in the woodshed, and that you did once think I was framing you, but now you love me and I love
you and eve rything is good.’
‘What if I refuse?’ She put her hand on her small, swollen belly and
frowned. ‘I think that would be awful.” Flynn 569
Quote above shows, Amy forces Nick to make affidavit. Nick retracts any statement is made by himself concerning on his misplaced belief that his wife
traps him and also ready to admit Nick’s role in the credit cards if Nick refuses clearly, Amy can do anything crueler to Nick.
d. Nick’s desire to be better
“Shut up, Amy. I mean it.’ ‘Just like your dad. We’re all bitches in the end, aren’t we, Nick? Dumb bitch, psycho bitch.’
He grabs me by the arm and shakes me hard. ‘I’m the bitch who makes you better, Nick.’ He stops talking then. He is
using all his energy to keep his hands at his side. His eyes are wet with tears. He is shaking.
‘I’m the bitch who makes you a man.’ Then his hands are on my neck.
” Flynn 548 The first night the return of Amy, a quarrel is happening between Nick and
Amy. Nick ’s attitude toward Amy as Nick’s father attitude toward his wife. The
men are in the end always assume that his wife is a stupid bitch. Amy also says that she is a bitch who can make Nick better, be a husband who is really in charge
and hoping not cheating again. Emotionally, Nick tries to kill his wife. “Who will I be then? The question wasn’t recriminatory. It wasn’t like the
answer was the pious: Then you’ll be a killer, Nick. You’ll be as bad as
Amy. You’ll be what everyone thought you were……..As a man, I had been my most impressive when I loved her
– and I was my next best self when I hated her. Amy was exactly right. So maybe there was no good end
for me.” Flynn 550
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When Nick tries to kill his wife, his mind think that he will be a more innocent and everyone will condemn him because he kills his wife. He is realized
that he should be a man, a husband must love his wife, and he will be a worst if he hates his wife. There will not be a good thing if he chooses to kill his wife.
“it was my responsibility. Just as Amy took the credit for making me my best self, I had to take the blame for bringing the madness to bloom in
Amy. Men capable of being uxorious. Men capable of keeping her sane. Amy’s story could have gone a million other ways, but she met me, and
bad things happened. So it was up to me to stop her. Not kill her but stop her.
” Flynn 551 The quote above shows that Nick is finally realized, he becomes
responsible husband for his wife. What has been done by Nick for infidelity, primarily, making her stress.
e. Have a child; Amy is really pregnant
