Mrs.De Winters and Rebecca comparison In the novel “Rebecca” by Daphne Du Maurier there is a romantic mystery surrounding Mr. De Winters and Rebecca who mysteriously drowns. Although not everything is as it seems. He remarries and the new wife gets the feeling that she is not welcome at Manderley. The fact that Rebecca the old wife supposedly haunts Manderley does not bode well with the new wife. The heroine is a sweet, shy companion of Mrs. Van Hopper. The two go to breakfast, dinner,and parties together. She is not used to talking to an older man such as Mr. De Winter. She is very shy around Mr. De Winter and very respectful when it comes to talking about Rebecca which he does not talk much about. When Mrs. Van Hopper tells her they are moving to New York she goes to tell Mr. De Winter the news. He is shocked and asks her to come to Manderley as his new wife. …show more content…
De Winters does not like to speak her name. He claims she drowned out in the bay, but when a diver finds the boat a lot of suspicion arises. Jack, Rebecca's cousin, starts to accuse him of murdering her. Suspicion arises and it is assumed that her death was suicide, but Jack pulls out a letter that reads, “I’ve got something to tell you and I want to see you as soon as possible. Rebecca.”(354). He said a person would not write a letter like that before committing suicide. He tells Maxim that she had multiple affairs. Which leads to rebecca telling Maxim that she is pregnant and it is more than likely not his. This in turn leads to an accidental murder due to jealous rage. She was a very sensual person who lead a very sinful
Miss Hancock is a strange yet charming character, who is classified as both round and dynamic. Miss Hancock is flashy, bizarre, with “too much enthusiasm.” But she is more than simply that. After a discussion on “The Metaphor”, she asks Charlotte talk about her own metaphor on her mother. Here, a different side of her is shown. “She
“Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen” (“Brainy Quotes” 1). In Edith Wharton’s framed novel, Ethan Frome, the main protagonist encounters “lost opportunity, failed romance, and disappointed dreams” with a regretful ending (Lilburn 1). Ethan Frome lives in the isolated fictional town of Starkfield, Massachusetts with his irritable spouse, Zenobia Frome. Ever since marriage, Zenobia, also referred to as Zeena, revolves around her illness. Furthermore, she is prone to silence, rage, and querulously shouting.
In the small, desolate town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, Ethan Frome lives a life of poverty. Not only does he live hopelessly, but “he was a prisoner for life” to the economy (Ammons 2). A young engineer from outside of town narrates the beginning of the story. He develops a curiosity towards Ethan Frome and the smash-up that he hears about in bits and pieces. Later, due to a terrible winter storm that caused the snow itself to seem like “a part of the thickening darkness, to be the winter night itself descending on us layer by layer” (Wharton 20), the narrator is forced to stay the night at Frome’s. As he enters the unfamiliar house, the story flashes back twenty-four years to Ethan Frome’s young life. Living out his life with Zenobia Frome, his hypochondriac of a wife whom he does not love, Ethan has nowhere to turn for a glance at happiness. But when Zenobia’s, or Zeena’s, young cousin, Mattie Silver, comes to care for her, Ethan falls in love with the young aid. Mattie is Ethan’s sole light in life and “she is in contrast to everything in Starkfield; her feelings bubble near the surface” (Bernard 2). All through the novella, the two young lovers hide their feelings towards each other. When they finally let out their true emotions to each other in the end, the consequence is an unforeseen one. Throughout Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton portrays a twisted fairy tale similar to the story of Snow White with the traditional characters, but without a happy ending to show that in a bleak and stark reality, the beautiful and enchanting maiden could become the witch.
Mrs. Danvers bond with the late Mrs. De Winter is not just a typical servant/mistress relationship, nor even friendship; it is stronger and more passionate than mere companionship. In Chapter Fourteen when Mrs. Danvers finds the narrator looking in Rebecca’s room, she demonstrates adoration for everything that was Rebecca’s: “That was her bed.
Viramontes sets a disconcerting tone by introducing that it is night time and Sonya, the young girl, has lost her key and cannot let her younger brother, Macky, and herself into their apartment. The first few paragraphs succeed in showing that Sonya is responsible and protective of her brother despite her age as she chases after him to keep him out of the street.
Character list Annemarie is one of the main characters in this book. She is a 10 year old German girl who lives in Copenhagen, Denmark with her mom, dad, and young sister Kirsti. Annemarie tells the story from her point of view. “It was only in the fairy tales that people were called upon to be so brave, to die for one another. Not in real-life Denmark” Annemarie struggles to find the definition of courage, but with the big journey that awaits uphead she soon finds out.
In Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca, Rebecca de Winter, the first wife of Maxim de Winter, imposes her presence posthumously into Manderley. Rebecca’s power over the de Winters is compared to an ivy “held place in [the] lost garden…and would soon encroach upon the house itself”, who had “thrown her tendrils about the pair and made them prisoners” (Du Maurier 3). Although the reader never sees Rebecca as a living character, her lust for power over Maxim is ever present. Rebecca’s power over the narrator and Manderley is well represented by Mrs. Danvers, a ghastly housemaid who remains loyal to the original Mrs. de Winter. Mrs. Danvers, who is like a puppet for Rebecca, states, “sometimes, when I walk along the corridor here, I fancy I hear her just
Hurston displays contrasting relationships between Janie and other main characters of the novel to reveal the degradation of women through gender roles. As soon as the novel begins, Hurston presents the reader with a disparity between the motives of men and women. In identifying the belief that men are realistic whereas women are idealistic, Hurston introduces the reader to the distinctions between men and women that will emerge throughout the novel. Janie’s mother figure, Nanny, draws attention to gender roles early on in the novel as she attempts to bring Janie to her senses about men and relationships. When Nanny catches Janie kissing Johnny Taylor, a man from the lower-class, she attempts to marry Janie as soon as possible to keep her from a “trashy nigger” since she claims Janie is a woman after her kiss.
Margaret is an intelligent, articulate, and ambitious woman who desires to rise up in social status by marrying a man of higher social rank. She attends to those above her, in hopes of elevating her status as she becomes closer to the upper-class. As a minor character, she plays a small yet crucial role in advancing Don John’s plot to slander Hero and spoil her wedding. As a lower-class character, Margaret serves as a foil to the rich girls, particularly Hero, who embodies every attitude and mindset Margaret does not. But she also offers an alternative perspective on the upper-class characters in the play. Because Margaret is victimized because of her social ambitions, punished for wanting to rise above her ...
Since Ma’s kidnapping, seven years prior, she has survived in the shed of her capturer’s backyard. This novel contains literary elements that are not only crucial to the story, but give significance as well. The point-of-view brings a powerful perspective for the audience, while the setting and atmosphere not only affect the characters but evokes emotion and gives the reader a mental picture of their lives, and the impacting theme along-side conflict, both internal and external, are shown throughout the novel. The author chooses to write the novel through the eyes of the main character and narrator, Jack. Jack’s perception of the world is confined to an eleven foot square room.
Dorothea Brooke is a very bright and beautiful young lady that does not much care for frills or getting ahead in society. She wants more than anything to help those around her, starting with the tenants of her uncle. She desires to redesign their cottages, but Arthur Brooke, her elderly uncle with whom she and her younger sister Celia Brooke lives with, does not want to spend the money required. So Dorothea shares her dream with Sir James Chettam, who finds her fascinating, and encourages her to use the plans she has drawn up for the tenants on his land instead. He falls in love with her, but does not share his feelings for her quickly enough. Edward Casaubon, an older scholarly clergyman asks Dorothea to marry him, she does not accept until she finds out Sir James means to seriously court her, then turns around and tells Casaubon yes. What she does not te...
No one can start the next chapter of their life if they will keep re-reading the last one. Rebecca is a famous well-known novel written by Daphne de Maurier, published in 1938. The story is about unknown lady used to work as young traveling companion to a wealthy woman called Mrs.Van Hopper, when they are in the hotel she meets Mr. Maxim de Winter and he proposes to her and she accepts. Furthermore, he is the owner of Manderly and there she meets the sinister Mrs. Danvers, she was Rebecca’s devoted housekeeper additionaly Rebecca is Maxim’s first wife but she dies. So, they have to investigate who killed Rebecca and how she was killed. Then it turns out that Rebecca dies of cancer, and Mrs. Danvers has disappears and burns herself in Manderly. The director of the movie Rebecca is Alfred Hitchcock and it was released in 1940 by Selznick international pictures. There are several similarities and differences between the novel and the movie.
In Fenstad’s Mother, by Charles Baxter, character is a very essential element to the story. The main character, Harry Fenstad, is a complicated person, but it is his mother, Mrs. Clara Fenstad, who I feel is a more important and complex person. In this brief paper, I will explain why it is my opinion that both of these characters play a crucial role in the story by complementing and developing each other’s character.
In the novel Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier tells the story of a gothic estate through the memory of an unnamed heroine. The unnamed narrator speaks of her time at Manderly and how she came to be there. She gets asked to become Maximilian de Winter’s wife while she's out on a job in Monte Carlo. Little did she know that in becoming his wife was she about to be made to live in the shadow of her new husband’s late wife Rebecca. Through Maxim’s secrecy in regards to Rebecca, and the head housekeeper Mrs. Danvers’ fondness of her, she begins to doubt her potential to be Maxim de Winter’s wife.
Aubery Tanqueray, a self-made man, is a Widower at the age of Forty two with a beautiful teenage daughter, Ellean whom he seems very protective over. His deceased wife, the first Mrs. Tanqueray was "an iceberg," stiff, and assertive, alive as well as dead (13). She had ironically died of a fever "the only warmth, I believe, that ever came to that woman's body" (14). Now alone because his daughter is away at a nunnery he's found someone that can add a little life to his elite, high class existence; a little someone, we learn, that has a past that doesn't quite fit in with the rest of his friends.