The narrator is affected tremendously by the death of Rebecca de Winter through attempting to fill Rebecca’s shoes. When the unknown narrator moves into Manderly with Maxim de Winter, she constantly walks in Rebecca's shadow hoping to live up to her legacy. She is repeatedly afraid to disappoint the servants as well as Maxim causing her to doubt every decision she must make. The words flying around the main character’s life caused her to acknowledge how different she was from Rebecca. Impressing Maxim as well as being overly kind to the servants has become Mrs de Winter’s main objective. She wants all of the people to think of her as equal to Rebecca. Every time she walks around Manderley, she thinks, “Rebecca must have had tea with Maxim here,
