Foreshadowing In The Book Rebecca

"We can never go back again, that much is certain," (du Maurier). Where can they never go and why not? In the book Rebecca, there are many twists and turns. Rebecca, is a novel wrote by Daphne du Maurier. All throughout the first two chapters of the book, there's plentiful examples of foreshadowing. During the time, these statements are very confusing. Once you read, your eyes are opened more so to the life of the narrator and her husband. From the start of the book, you get an off feeling about Manderley. The estate couldn't have been a happy place for the narrator. Her dream of the home seems more of a nightmare. Du Maurier begins foreshadowing that, during the time the narrator lived in Manderley, she was always compared to Rebecca, and looked down upon by the people who knew her. For the most part, she felt in competition with her. The narrator was always told she was so different from Rebecca. Rebecca was described as a beautiful, strong, and independent women. Something the narrator could never be. It brought out the narrator's insecurities. Her insecurities influenced her to shut out her husband, Maxim, even more than she already had. To show these events would happen, secretly, the author starts the first chapters with, "They were memories that cannot hurt," (du

Something so bad happened at Manderley that the narrator and her husband cannot talk about it. The narrator says, "We would not talk of Manderley, I would not tell my dream. For Manderley was ours no longer. Manderley was no more" (du Maurier). "How strange that an article on wood pigeons could so recall the past and make me falter as I read aloud" (du Maurier). After Maxim was suspected to have murdered his late wife, Rebecca, they are very touchy on the subject of her and Maxim's beloved Manderley. Manderley was burned down shortly after he was suspected to have killed Rebecca. Luckily, no one ever found out that he killed