What if you were constantly competing with someone who is dead? Sometimes competing with death is the hardest task, especially when the person was such a seemingly amazing character. It can feel as if they haunt you every day, in every way possible. This is just what happens for the timid narrator of the gothic romance novel, Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier. The narrator falls madly in love with maxim de Winter, a mysterious man with a dark, questionable past with an ex-lover, Rebecca, who has recently passed away. The Narrator who is not given a name is a very shy, young and innocent young adult. She is married to maxim de winters. Rebecca was maxims ex-wife who passed away, she was very outgoing and experienced. The Narrator and Rebecca are both married to maxim, but Rebecca didn’t love maxim, while Narrator is madly in love with him. In addition, Rebecca was outgoing and beautiful, while Narrator is shy and awkward.
One similarity between the two characters is that the Narrator and Rebecca were and are both married Maxim de Winters. Although for different reasons, they were. In the book Rebecca …show more content…
His wish is her command. She is infatuated with his wisdom and wit, he inspires her. Rebecca simply thought men were all on a string and she could fiddle with them however she wished because they all were crazy over her beauty, she never loved maxim, she loved the reputation. While getting married to Maxim, Rebecca wasn’t sincere about their love at all, she said that when they’re in public that’s the only time they will love each other and that she’s going to cheat whenever she wants for the price of her taking care of Manderly. She doesn’t care about Maxim whatsoever. “I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say” (5.1). Mrs. De Winters recalls her first moments with Max and she is professing her intense, burning love for
One similarity between the two characters is that the Narrator and Rebecca were and are both married Maxim de Winters. Although for different reasons, they were. In the book Rebecca …show more content…
His wish is her command. She is infatuated with his wisdom and wit, he inspires her. Rebecca simply thought men were all on a string and she could fiddle with them however she wished because they all were crazy over her beauty, she never loved maxim, she loved the reputation. While getting married to Maxim, Rebecca wasn’t sincere about their love at all, she said that when they’re in public that’s the only time they will love each other and that she’s going to cheat whenever she wants for the price of her taking care of Manderly. She doesn’t care about Maxim whatsoever. “I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say” (5.1). Mrs. De Winters recalls her first moments with Max and she is professing her intense, burning love for