The biggest thing that did it was the night of the party when Mr. De Winter was in the cottage acting all suspicious, having him pace around and stammer really added to the whole truth coming out. Other suspenseful moment would be the moment when they were going to find out why would Rebecca kill herself. Mr. De Winter and Jack Favell thought because she was pregnant. Hitchcock portrayed this by having the scene of Jack Favell accusing Mr. De Winter that he killed Rebecca because she was pregnant and saying that he knows that she went to the doctor. The mood heightens when they all go to the doctor that Rebecca went to that night and mood heightens even more when the doctor gets out his log book. This was able to put the audience on edge because everybody was thinking “was Rebecca really pregnant?”, but the answer ended up being that she had cancer which was even more of an explosion then her being pregnant. Another theme that Hitchcock used often was having an ordinary person in an extraordinary circumstance. Hitchcock like using this because it let the audience better relate to the
The biggest thing that did it was the night of the party when Mr. De Winter was in the cottage acting all suspicious, having him pace around and stammer really added to the whole truth coming out. Other suspenseful moment would be the moment when they were going to find out why would Rebecca kill herself. Mr. De Winter and Jack Favell thought because she was pregnant. Hitchcock portrayed this by having the scene of Jack Favell accusing Mr. De Winter that he killed Rebecca because she was pregnant and saying that he knows that she went to the doctor. The mood heightens when they all go to the doctor that Rebecca went to that night and mood heightens even more when the doctor gets out his log book. This was able to put the audience on edge because everybody was thinking “was Rebecca really pregnant?”, but the answer ended up being that she had cancer which was even more of an explosion then her being pregnant. Another theme that Hitchcock used often was having an ordinary person in an extraordinary circumstance. Hitchcock like using this because it let the audience better relate to the