My wrists wrapped in ropes, my vagina damaged, my bruises: the body I present to them is textbook” (Flynn 500). The fact that Amy would do this to herself is terrifying enough, but even more so is the way she describes the way she mutilated herself as if it were a "textbook," as if she knew exactly what it would "look like." ” a rape victim or summer, at least enough to fool a medical examiner and that is the most despicable act of all. As Robert Palmer says in his criticism of Amy in his essay "Gone Girl and the Specter of Feminism", Amy's actions are seen as a way to alleviate the plight of real-life rape and kidnapping victims.