This is Nick and Amy's house on the river, in Missouri. Nick states,"It's a rented house right along the Mississippi River, a house that screams Suburban Nouveau Riche... The kind of house that is immediately familiar: a generically grand, unchallenging, new new new house." (Flynn 4) This house is where everything in the book starts, and where everything ends. It tears up Nick and Amy's relationship when they move to Missouri , but this home is where they glue their relationship back together.
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This is an image of what Nick saw when he came back home. He understood that there was a problem with Amy as soon as he found a hot iron sitting unattended, "Amy was not there. Amy was gone." (Flynn 33). He describes the situation stating there were a pair of sharp scissors, a hot iron, and many knocked over items, which was completely unnatural. This scene shows the setting perfectly, because it was where the issues started happening: their home.