Once Gone By Riley Barke Quotes

Analysis of Character: Riley Paige, the main character of the thriller “Once Gone” possesses many great qualities, but also some traits that aren’t exactly positive. She is a grown adult, so her mind and decision making are that of an adult. At some points in the story, she is pathetic and indecisive. She is very reckless, trying to play the part of a hero, but it is just seen upon readers as stupid and incredibly dimwitted to do. She is introduced as a clever veteran detective who is the best in her field. She can solve most cases and her mind works extremely fast. Her mind is like a puzzle, she can piece together evidence and clues that will eventually lead to her solving the case. However, her “cleverness” throughout the story was a short fuse. After the fuse ended, Riley was just overall an
As I have mentioned in the first paragraph, she is an, “incredibly reckless moron who likes to do her own thing. For instance, she has never, not once, called for backup when she went out of her way to find the murderer.” This is a vital thing to know, regardless of how much experience you have in the business! It’s quite baffling to see how Riley, an experience veteran, doesn’t know the basics. She prefers to do things on her own whim, risking her life and many others so, this is also another negative trait of Riley; she is selfish. Incredibly selfish. One way she is selfish is that even knowing her partner in crime, Bill is married and trying to fix his marriage, she still has the AUDACITY to call him up drunk and embarrassingly ask him to come over and hang out. Obviously, Bill was furious, which is the right response. But there’s more. Another example is how she fails to realize she is hurting her daughter and believes she is doing the right thing by hiding things from her! That is extremely selfish of Riley because her innocent daughter is hurt from this but Riley still doesn’t do a thing to fix