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A woman accused of stalking Amy in high school and threatening to kill her. Like Tommy, Hilary reveals Amy’s penchant for framing people when they wrong her in the smallest of ways. Hilary eventually reveals that she and Amy were truly friends—until Amy became jealous of her, and began setting her up to look like a stalker.
Hilary Handy Quotes in Gone Girl
The Gone Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Hilary Handy or refer to Hilary Handy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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17. Nick Dunne, Four Days Gone (1) Quotes
I felt a surge of angst. What a fucking day. Boney was out to get me, Noelle was insane, Shawna was pissed, Hilary was resentful, the woman at the security company was a bitch, and my wife had stumped me finally. It was time to end this goddamn day.
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The theme of misogyny reverberates throughout the novel as Flynn examines the ways in which a culture of rampant misogyny within American society affects all of her major characters. Whereas Go and Amy experience an internalized sense of misogyny which leads them to despise, on some level, themselves or other women, Nick Dunne falls prey to the dismissive and righteous language of misogynists despite his best efforts to try to keep from becoming more and more like his cruel, woman-hating father. After a trying day, Nick blames his exhaustion and misery on all of the women he’s interacted with over Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident exp
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Hilary Handy Character Timeline in Gone Girl
The timeline below shows where the character Hilary Handy appears in Gone Girl. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
11. Nick Dunne, One Day Gone (2)
...the years, been stalkers and strange fans, including one of Amy’s own high school classmates, Hilary Handy, who threatened to kill Amy and take her place as Rand and Marybeth’s daughter.
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15. Nick Dunne, Three Days Gone
...Rand are frustrated by the police’s refusal to look into one of Amy’s old stalkers, Hilary Handy, who lives five hours away in Tennessee. Marybeth pleads with Nick to drive there...
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17. Nick Dunne, Four Days Gone (1)
...drive back to the hotel. Back at headquarters, Nick decides to dial the number for Hilary Handy—one of Amy’s high-school stalkers. Hilary tries to hang up on Nick, but he calls...
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...Thinking of all the women who have messed with him throughout the day—Boney, Noelle, Shawna, Hilary, the woman at the security company, and even Amy—Nick thinks there’s only one woman he...
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39. Nick Dunne, Eight Days Gone (3)
...own “murder” of Amy is a lie—as is Tommy O’Hara’s “rape”—Nick begins to wonder if Hilary Handy, too, was falsely accused of stalking Amy. He tries calling Hilary again, and talks...
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Hilary explains that she was a transfer from Memphis in her freshman year of high school....
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Soon after, Amy accused Hilary of pushing her down a long flight of stairs—Hilary did no such thing, and always...
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47. Nick Dunne, Ten Days Gone (3)
...Nick up, but every time the two of them offer the detectives evidence of Amy’s destruction—Hilary Handy and Tommy O’Hara, the labyrinth clues—the cops find a way to bend the narrative...
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59. Nick Dunne, Thirty Days After the Return
...Amy has covered her tracks too well. Go thinks maybe Jacqueline Collings, Tommy O’Hara, or Hilary Handy could help expose Amy—but Boney knows that the public loves Amy too much to...
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