Dark Places: A Novel by Gillian Flynn | Summary & Analysis

Dark Places: A Novel by Gillian Flynn | Summary & Analysis

This is a Summary & Analysis of Dark Places. Bestselling author Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places, is an odd investigative text with an unusual protagonist and an unfortunate set of circumstances. While some readers will not be pleased with the generally bleak outlook of the book and the atypical nature of many of its characters, others will be pleased to see the slice of a very different life that it presents. Yet more will be gratified to see how the conventions of the investigative genre of which the book partakes are subverted even as the book holds closely enough to them to fit.

Dark Places follows Libby Day as she uncovers the truth of the grisly multiple-murder of her mother and sisters at the beginning of 1985. At the prompting of Lyle _ of the Kill Club, she investigates various aspects of her own and her family’s past, encountering entirely unpleasant people along the way and responding to them in kind. Her brother, Ben Day, who had been convicted of the murders is in fact innocent of them, but resolving the issue brings peace neither to Libby or to the others involved.

This companion to Dark Places also includes the following:
• Book Review
• Story Setting Analysis of Dark Places
• Story elements you may have missed as we decipher the novel
• Details of Characters & Key Character Analysis
• Summary of the text, with some analytical comments interspersed
• Discussion & Analysis of Themes, Symbols…
• And Much More!

It is not the most conventional read, but it is an entertaining one, compelling in its writing.

This Analysis of Dark Places fills the gap, making you understand more while enhancing your reading experience.