The story takes care to set up rich history, details, and imagery before getting to the twists. I know I will pick it up again when I get the chance.Įxpect a slow, meandering pace when reading Rebecca. It’s not often that I recommend someone read a book twice, but Rebecca is just that captivating. After finishing Rebecca, I realized that so many scenes were packed with symbolism that doesn’t become clear until readers have finished the book. While Rebecca is gone in physical form, her spirit lives in this text. The late Rebecca’s presence haunts every passage and plays a direct influence on the current events on the story. There’s not fantastical elements in this book, but du Marier edges closer and closer to a ghost story with every scene. There’s an ample amount of content and symbolism that intertwines with the real life of the author, too, but for the sake of being spoiler-free, I’m going to leave that out. I felt like I was playing detective to see if I trusted the narrator’s perceptions. As readers, we’re invited to question her perception and think twice about her descriptions of action and body language. She is so absorbed with the staff of the house comparing her to Rebecca that it is often unclear if moments are real or imagined. The book features one of the most unreliable narrators that I’ve ever encountered in fiction. Rebecca is a thrilling combination of the romance and suspense genres. Manderly keeps years of history behind its doors, but beneath the grandeur, unimaginable secrets lie waiting. Danvers, cannot help but notice all of the ways the narrator differs from the late Rebecca.
Everyone at Manderly, most notably the leering Mrs. While generations of people have walked these halls, the narrator finds herself most haunted by Maxim’s previous wife, Rebecca, who died the previous year. Manderly has been in the de Winter family for a thousand years. Maxim takes the narrator back to live at his gorgeous manor home Manderly. A romance soon forms between the pair, and with the older, wealthier, and more mature Maxim proposes to the naive and lovestruck narrator. The novel follows an unnamed young woman who is working as a lady’s companion in Monte Carlo when she meets the widowed English Aristocrat Maxim de Winter. I’m happy to add another book to my list of five star reads. I had no idea what awaited in these pages, and even if I did, I’m not sure that it would’ve prepared me for the experience of reading this text. This novel was a required read for one of my English Literature courses this semester, and I’d admittedly never heard of it before. I wasn’t sure what to expect when reading Rebecca. Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is a masterclass in riveting imagery, suspenseful scenes, and fascinatingly unreliable characters.
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