The Importance Of Imagination In Rebecca By Daphne Dumarier

Imagination is the actions of forming new ideas, or images not present to the senses. It creates a form of what is real and what is not real, and sometimes can separate a person from reality. In the novel Rebecca by Daphne duMarier, Daphne portrays the narrator as having a very imaginative mind. One of the biggest key roles played upon the character is imagination, and the narrator shows imagination can conjure up unnecessary events in a person’s mins The narrator In the novel lets her imagination take over her mind, causing her to change the way she behaves, causing her to become self conscious, and altering her relationship with the people around her, and as well as her husband.

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With the narrator being the new wife to such an important man she starts to become self conscious of the people around her, feeling as though she is boring, and rather unexciting and people know that about her. Before meeting ,and marrying Maxim the narrator was a common girl working as a companion for a woman, and with her now around more prominent people she becomes nervous and scared because she doesn’t want to be perceived as “that common girl Mr. de Winter married.” In once scene of the novel during the Party thrown by the narrator and Maxim, the narrator imagination takes over her mind as she thinks the party guest are judging her because she’s so different from Rebecca in a bad way. In the novel Rebecca the narrator imaginative mind takes over when “ But his friend would shake his head, puffing at his pipe. “This new one’s not like our Mrs. de Winter, she’s different altogether.” and the woman next to them in the crowd would agree, other people too, all saying “that’s right,” and nodding their heads.” (220). During that scene, it shows she is so self conscious about her self she makes up a conversation claiming she is nothing like Rebecca back in the old days during the Manderly estate

She feels Rebecca is always haunting, watching, and laughing at her because she will never be the real “Mrs. de Winter”. (quote.) In that scene that shows the narrator believes Rebecca is haunting her because she knows Maxim will always love Rebecca more than she loves the narrator. The narrator imagination of Rebecca always haunting the newly wed couple because she believes Maxim is still in love with Rebecca which in the end makes her more self conscious, feeling she made a mistake in marrying Maxim, because he will never love her like he loves Rebecca. Rebecca will always stand in the way of their