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

Maurier). Something in Manderley deeply hurt or disturbed the narrator to the core, showing later on, something in/from Manderley hurt the narrator deeply. On page three, she states, "The house was sepulcher, our fearing suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection," (du Maurier). In other words, there's something at Manderley that must be still hidden. Something so bad, it could've been life changing for the narrator.
Later on you begin to realize, there's more to the story.

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

Rebecca.
From the previous paragraphs, it's obvious that there's a secret that burned down and is now gone with Manderley. All throughout the first two chapters, the narrator speaks of something being gone, that she doesn't have to worry about now because it's gone with Manderley. Some examples are, "There was Manderley, our Manderley, secretive and silent as it had always been" (du Maurier). The narrator even says there's something secretive and always had been. "The house was sepulcher, our fearing suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection," (du Maurier). In their days of Manderley, they were suffering due to something that is now covered up by the ruins of Manderley. Finally there is, "Well, it is over now, finished and done with. I ride no more tormented, and both of us are free," (du Maurier). Maxim, in fact, did kill the very adored, Rebecca. A very select few people know that Rebecca did not commit suicide, like ruled by court. Maxim got away with murder. Like the fact his secret of killing Rebecca was buried, so was Manderley.
By just the first eight pages, there's foreshadowing on events that could give the book away. Manderley was a dark place, filled with so many secrets that it had to come crashing down at some point. Somehow, the narrator and her husband managed to get away with murder, but paid a huge price. If the foreshadowing hadn't taken place in the first two chapters, I wouldn't have been able to better understand the book and predict it's plot.