A lot has been written about the novel Rebecca, most of which, to be honest, I probably haven’t read. I do know it’s well acknowledged that Max de Winters isn’t exactly Mr Perfect, while the unnamed narrator seems to have gotten away with her foibles, for want of a better word. The afterword in my edition, for example, says that in fact Max de Winters kills not one wife but two, with the narrator enduring a slow death via their exile in Switzerland, after Manderley has been burned to the ground. In this analysis, she’s painted more or less as an innocent victim turned reluctant accomplice.
Bad guys and slippery language in Rebecca
Bad guys and slippery language in Rebecca
Bad guys and slippery language in Rebecca
A lot has been written about the novel Rebecca, most of which, to be honest, I probably haven’t read. I do know it’s well acknowledged that Max de Winters isn’t exactly Mr Perfect, while the unnamed narrator seems to have gotten away with her foibles, for want of a better word. The afterword in my edition, for example, says that in fact Max de Winters kills not one wife but two, with the narrator enduring a slow death via their exile in Switzerland, after Manderley has been burned to the ground. In this analysis, she’s painted more or less as an innocent victim turned reluctant accomplice.