![]() ![]() ![]() Rebecca was beautiful, popular and glamorous, while the present Mrs de Winter is plain, shy and naïve Mrs Danvers adored the first wife, yet despises the second and even the reader is never told the name of the second wife, but constantly reads the name Rebecca. ![]() Throughout the entire book, comparisons are frequently made between the first and the second wife. It struck me that the protagonist’s first name is never mentioned, as she is referred to only as Mrs de Winter. On their arrival, waiting to greet them at the door is Mrs Danvers, the housekeeper, who won’t let the memory of Rebecca fade away. After their honeymoon in Italy, they happily go to Manderley, in Cornwall, Maxim de Winter’s estate. In April of 1938, the manuscript for Daphne du Maurier’s new novel, Rebecca, landed on the desk of her. After a whirlwind romance, he unexpectedly proposes to her, therefore making her the new Mrs de Winter. In the South of France, a young woman meets a man twenty years her senior, who is recovering after the tragic and sudden death of his first wife, Rebecca. ![]()
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