Additionally, in lines 11-54, of the passage, du Maurier uses literary devices including diction, detail, and imagery to create a shift in the mood from a mystery to a nightmare through her portrayal of the nature on her path that leads to Manderley. The narrator states,“Nature had come into her own again and little by little in her stealthy, insidious way had encroached upon the drive with long tenacious fingers” (lines 19-21), which illustrates an image in the reader’s mind of the appearance of the path. An image that could be created in the reader’s mind is the nature growing at an intrusive rate and intruding upon the drive. Du Maurier uses words such as “stealthy”, “insidious”, “encroached”, and “tenacious” to describe the appearance of
