Essay On Rebecca Manderley

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We’ve all been there: the dreaded moving day. The day you leave everything familiar behind for a great unknown. For most, moving just means relocating from one house to another. Unfortunately for the narrator in Rebecca, moving means leaving everything she’s ever known for man she’s known for just over a week. She cannot prepare herself for the change that’s about to come: a completely new lifestyle, unlike anything she’s experienced before. Her life is turned upside down when she goes from being a companion and servant of an elder woman to the mistress of one of the most adored estates in England. This estate isn’t just any other mansion, it’s the beautiful and prized Manderley. Manderley plays as large a role as many of the main characters …show more content…

We first see her unfamiliarity start to show when she goes to the library in the morning and expects a fire to be lit. She’s unaware that the fireplace is always lit in the morning room; in fact, she hadn’t even seen such room before. Her confusion in finding rooms suggest that she is very lost in this new lifestyle. It is not only rooms she is unsure of, but also objects and routines in Manderley. For example, when she goes to set down a number of books she received from Beatrice for her wedding, she accidently knocks over an expensive china cupid and it shatters on the floor. Instead of admitting to breaking it, she tries to cover up her accident. She says this about her initial reaction, “I glanced hurriedly at the door, like a guilty child,” (Maurier 139). This emphasizes that she is not prepared the lifestyle at Manderley because had Maxim or any owner of an estate broken it, they would have simply had the maids take care of it. The narrator acted as a maid or employee would have if they broke it, like a scared child that fears being yelled at. The cupid was placed there with the intention of proving that the narrator was too immature for the wealthy

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