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Rebecca

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Rebecca	comment	A 1938 novel by English author Daphne du Maurier (who also wrote Jamaica Inn, My Cousin Rachel and the short stories that became The Birds and Don't Look Now).While working in Monte Carlo as the companion for the wealthy Mrs. Van Hopper, our young, unnamed heroine meets the much wealthier Maxim de Winter — a moody, inscrutable widower presumed still to be in deep mourning for his late wife, the beautiful Rebecca, tragically drowned in a boating accident. Thus no one is more surprised than the shy little companion when Maxim not only seems attracted to her but impetuously proposes they wed there and then.The first signs of trouble in Paradise appear when they arrive at Maxim's elegant old Cornish estate, Manderley. The servants have grown too fond of its late mistress and receive their new one coolly. Mrs. Danvers, the current housekeeper and Rebecca's former handmaid, is especially less than thrilled with the prospect of anyone taking Rebecca's place, and has made something of a fetish of keeping her things exactly as she left them — stationery in the desk, clothes in the cupboards — all monogrammed with that bold, decisive initial R.As the novel progresses the shadow of Rebecca hangs more and more heavily over the house, making it increasingly difficult for our heroine to face the challenges not only of running a great estate but within her marriage — especially when it's increasingly clear that the two are related. Gradually, with a not-so-subtle assist from Mrs. Danvers, she begins to despair of ever living up to the perfect, proud, beloved Rebecca......then they find the remains of a boat....In 1940, Alfred Hitchcock directed the film version, his first American project, which starred Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier. It received 11 Academy Award nominations, winning for Best Picture and Best Cinematography (Black and White). It was the only Hitchcock film to win Best Picture, and Hitchcock didn't win Best Director—he never did, in fact, and had to settle for a lifetime achievement Oscar late in life.Other adaptations include a 1938 radio dramatization on Orson Welles' Campbell Playhouse, a 1939 stage play, a 1979 miniseries on The BBC starring Jeremy Brett, a 1983 opera, a 1997 miniseries on ITV starring Charles Dance as Maxim de Winter and Diana Rigg as Mrs. Danvers, a 2008 miniseries on RAI1 and a 2006 stage musical.A new adaptation was filmed for Netflix, directed by Ben Wheatley (High-Rise, Free Fire, Kill List) and starring Lily James as the second Mrs. de Winter, Armie Hammer as Maxim de Winter and Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs. Danvers. It premiered on October 21st 2020, the day before what would have been Joan Fontaine's 103rd birthday.
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Rebecca / int_11b01fc7	type	Happy Marriage Charade
Rebecca / int_11b01fc7	comment	Happy Marriage Charade: Maxim and Rebecca; they are thought to be a glorious couple even by the house servants, and neighbours for miles around speak of them, but their marriage is anything but.
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Rebecca / int_124d7bce	type	Intimate Hair Brushing
Rebecca / int_124d7bce	comment	Intimate Hair Brushing: Mrs. Danvers talks lovingly of brushing Rebecca's hair every night before bed. She even has her hairbrush left exactly as it was when she was alive.
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Rebecca / int_16838478	type	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named
Rebecca / int_16838478	comment	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named: Rebecca was revealed to be dying of a tumor in her ovaries, which mean that she couldn't have children.
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Rebecca / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Rebecca / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: The second Mrs. de Winter describes herself as plain, a bit foolish, and makes out she's not very emotionally strong. Other characters regularly comment on her prettiness, and she is clearly both intelligent and emotionally strong underneath her shyness. Also Maxim. His version of events regarding Rebecca's death is the only one we hear, and there are plenty of things about it that don't make sense. For instance, why does Rebecca (universally considered beautiful, charming, intelligent and vivacious) settle for a loveless marriage of convenience with Maxim when she could have had her pick of men? What 'things about herself' does she tell him that are so awful he can 'never repeat them to a living soul'? Rebecca's motivations are central to our understanding of her... but we never get to hear her side. That said, see Rewatch Bonus on this page for what others say about her even before The Reveal.
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Rebecca / int_1892d512	type	Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Rebecca / int_1892d512	comment	Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Described to the first Mrs. de Winter:
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Rebecca / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
Rebecca / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: According to Mrs. Danvers, Rebecca could wrap her father around her little finger.
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Rebecca / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Rebecca / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Invoked. Near the end of the book, the narrator berates herself for building up images in her head of how people dislike her and then stewing about it, rather than talking to anybody about her feelings. And it turns out Maxim was doing the same thing, and was deeply afraid that his young wife had lost interest in him.
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Rebecca / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
Rebecca / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: "Rebecca" and its two reprises, sung by Mrs. Danvers when showing the second Mrs. de Winter Rebecca's room, when trying to make her commit suicide and when she learns Rebecca had cancer, where this becomes a Sanity Slippage Song. Also "Eine hand wÃ¤scht die and're Hand" ("One hand washes the other") for Jack Favell, crossing over to Sidekick Song territory as he explains his extortionist philosophy.
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Rebecca / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
Rebecca / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: Maxim de Winter. A reclusive, introverted aristocrat and handsome widower, prone to broodiness and mood swings, and still seeming in the thrall of his late wife. And is tormented by the knowledge that he is her murderer, living in fear of being exposed each day, isolated from his friends and family by being one of the only few individuals to have seen past his monstrous wife's facade. Also Rebecca herself.
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Rebecca / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Rebecca / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: The second Mrs. de Winter keeps imagining herself as the heroine of a conventional romance novel, instead of a gothic romance. Justified Trope since the first act of the novel plays out like a straightforward romance novel, except what should be the happily ever after ending is actually the beginning of the story at Manderley.
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Rebecca / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Rebecca / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: Rebecca to the people she was openly nasty to.
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Rebecca / int_23a0a0d0	type	Dragon Their Feet
Rebecca / int_23a0a0d0	comment	Dragon Their Feet: Mrs. Danvers was once Rebecca's closest ally and confidant, and posthumously claims her vengeance by burning down Manderley.
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Rebecca / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Rebecca / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Beatrice is famous for never sugarcoating her opinions and to tell people face-on she doesn't like them. Fortunately, she takes an immediate liking to the second Mrs. de Winter.
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Rebecca / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
Rebecca / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: The second Mrs. de Winter attempts this twice. The first time she dresses up to look like a woman on a magazine hoping to impress her husband, at which he's a little alarmed. The second time backfires horribly when she is tricked into dressing up for the costume ball in the same costume Rebecca wore at the last Manderley Masquerade. She fails to realise that Maxim likes her modesty and unpretentiousness - the opposite of his much hated first wife.
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Rebecca / int_275d19ee	type	Birds of a Feather
Rebecca / int_275d19ee	comment	Birds of a Feather: The heroine and Maxim are this. Conversely, Rebecca and Favell get along too well for Maximâ€™s comfort.
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Rebecca / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Rebecca / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The widely adored Rebecca was an utterly selfish, narcissistic bitch who was nice to people to their faces but laughed and jeered at them behind their backs.
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Rebecca / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Rebecca / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Maxim turns into a male example after he confesses to murdering Rebecca, though it's less of a defrost and more of a rapid dissolve into a puddle.
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Rebecca / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Rebecca / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Averted in the book with Mrs. Danvers, and played straight if one subscribes to the film's heavy suggestion she's a lesbian (or at the very least had Single-Target Sexuality toward Rebecca).
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Rebecca / int_2bc77899	type	I Am Not Pretty
Rebecca / int_2bc77899	comment	I Am Not Pretty: The second Mrs. de Winter thinks she is bland and childish, but others find her reasonably attractive.
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Rebecca / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Rebecca / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Discussed throughout the novel, with the narrator always thinking that Rebecca is conquering from beyond the grave. In the end, Rebecca loses her power to hurt the new couple, but Mrs. Danvers destroys Manderley and causes the bleak ending described in the prologue right when the couple were happy for the first time.
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Rebecca / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Rebecca / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: In the novel Rebecca is hinted to have had male and female lovers while married to Maxim. Mrs. Danvers contends that she loved no man at all.
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Rebecca / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Rebecca / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Danvers is quite disgusted by Favell's claim that Rebecca loved him and would have made him her husband, and considers the very suggestion an affront to Rebecca's honour — she claims Rebecca loved no man whatsoever.
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Rebecca / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Rebecca / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Mrs. Danvers to Maxim de Winter and the second Mrs. de Winter.
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Rebecca / int_3555a597	type	Sympathetic Murder Backstory
Rebecca / int_3555a597	comment	Sympathetic Murder Backstory: Maxim murdered Rebecca. But she was a horrible person, and she manipulated him into doing it.
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Rebecca / int_35884ee7	type	Villainous Incest
Rebecca / int_35884ee7	comment	Villainous Incest: Rebecca and Jack.
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Rebecca / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
Rebecca / int_35e077	comment	Fourth-Date Marriage: Maxim gets to know the female protagonist during his holidays in Monte Carlo. They get married then and there.
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Rebecca / int_389f6c7b	type	Sugary Malice
Rebecca / int_389f6c7b	comment	Sugary Malice: Seems to be Jack Favell's main business after blackmail. The second Mrs. Dr Winter soon dislikes him due to his constant insinuations.
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Rebecca / int_3a967286	type	Handsome Lech
Rebecca / int_3a967286	comment	Handsome Lech: Favell.
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Rebecca / int_3ad27180	type	The Chain of Harm
Rebecca / int_3ad27180	comment	The Chain of Harm: Maxim is initially very gruff and patronizing toward his second wife, regularly calling her a fool with various degrees of debatable affection. Then we learn Rebecca was similarly patronizing and demeaning toward him- raising the possibility that Maxim accidentally internalized some of her worst traits. Notably, he stops doing it once he no longer has to carry Rebecca's death inside him like a secret.
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Rebecca / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Rebecca / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The novel begins some time after everything has happened, with the de Winters living a grim, inconsequential existence overseas. Or, at least, they have a mundane existence but at least they have each other's company.
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Rebecca / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Rebecca / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: The musical, much like the 1941 movie, does this to Maxim by eliminating his murder of Rebecca. By extension, this removes the potentially psychotic element from his wife's decision to help him, helping to make her more sympathetic and heroic after The Reveal. It portrays her as becoming a confident woman that doesn't take Mrs. Danvers's bullying any longer so that the audience can root for her. She and Maxim are seen as very happy together and kiss at the end, which is much clearer than the ambiguous future of their relationship in the novel.
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Rebecca / int_403b6f3	type	Fainting
Rebecca / int_403b6f3	comment	Fainting: Deliberately or not, the heroine faints at the court room at the very moment her husband was about to break under pressure.
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Rebecca / int_40cad744	type	Flower Motifs
Rebecca / int_40cad744	comment	Flower Motifs: Roses for the new Mrs. de Winter. Rhododendrons and azaleas for Rebecca. The rhododendrons are particularly interesting: they are notoriously invasive, with a tendency to crowd out any native plants by depriving them of food and sunlight, ensuring their takeover of large areas. Moreover, they have a reputation (of uncertain validity) for "poisoning the soil," meaning that even once the rhododendron has gone, no other plant can thrive where it used to be. Sound familiar?
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Rebecca / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Rebecca / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Manderley is burnt to the ground by Mrs. Danvers, in a sense ensuring Rebecca has one last laugh over Maxim from beyond the grave. But having come clean with each other regarding Rebecca, the framing device suggests that Maxim and the heroine are, if not happy together, then at least content, having overcome Rebecca's shadow and earned something of a happy ending.
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Rebecca / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Rebecca / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Mrs. Danvers spends the whole novel talking about how "Mrs. de Winter" did things. After her attempting to goad the second wife into a suicide and humiliating her, she gets a smackdown when complaining about how the second wife ordered lunch over the phone: "I am Mrs. de Winter now." Even better, the second wife doesn't even have to raise her tone.
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Rebecca / int_432e2c83	type	Caretaker Reversal
Rebecca / int_432e2c83	comment	Caretaker Reversal: In a psychological sense between Maxim and the narrator. After everything's out in the open between them, Maxim becomes tired and passive in many of their interactions, while his wife becomes quick-thinking and in some ways very manipulative on his behalf.
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Rebecca / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Rebecca / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Mrs. Danvers proudly showing the furs Maxim brought Rebecca.
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Rebecca / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
Rebecca / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Manderley. The prologue to the novel includes Purple Prose describing it and its grounds. It may be based on Milton Hall◊, which du Maurier visited as a child, or else Menabilly, Du Maurier's home of twenty-six years.
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Rebecca / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Rebecca / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Mrs. Danvers in the musical. In the novel she escaped the burning house, but in the musical she commits suicide.
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Rebecca / int_4a0ec47a	type	Cheshire Cat Grin
Rebecca / int_4a0ec47a	comment	Cheshire Cat Grin: After what happened at the ball, the narrator gets freaked out by Mrs. Danvers, who sports a rather creepy smile.
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Rebecca / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Rebecca / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In the novel.
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Rebecca / int_51326b34	type	Dramatic Sit-Down
Rebecca / int_51326b34	comment	Dramatic Sitdown: When Maxim asks the narrator to marry him, she has to sit down.
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Rebecca / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
Rebecca / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: Maxim is a widower in his forties or fifties when he marries the heroine, who is in her early twenties. As much as they love one another, and even without the spectre of Rebecca haunting them, there is a lot of insecurity on both sides due to the age gap. Maxim occasionally wonders whether he is too old to relate to her, and if she would have been better off with someone her age, while the heroine is resentful of being treated like a child, and feels inferior to Maxim due to her youth and naivete. Invoked in the 1939 radio play version. Orson Welles, who both adapted it and voiced Maxim, was only 24 years old, so he added a line where Maxim ruefully admits to being old enough to be his second wife's father to make sure the audience understood the age gap between the characters.
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Rebecca / int_56725578	type	Driving a Desk
Rebecca / int_56725578	comment	Driving a Desk: As unconvincing as usual when Olivier is driving Fontaine around.
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Rebecca / int_58dd1c53	type	Cobweb of Disuse
Rebecca / int_58dd1c53	comment	Cobweb of Disuse: When the narrator finds the abandoned beach house, it's full of cobwebs.
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Rebecca / int_59ddd555	type	Psycho Lesbian
Rebecca / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Mrs. Danvers, though in the film version, this was put only in subtext. In the musical, she dies wearing Rebecca's nightgown, which she has never washed since Rebecca wore it last.
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Rebecca / int_5b95535a	type	Love Forgives All but Lust
Rebecca / int_5b95535a	comment	Love Forgives All but Lust: An interesting variation: The female lead spends the first half of the book moping because she thinks her husband is still in love with his (dead) first wife instead of her. Cue wangst. But then it's revealed that he hated his first wife, and he actually murdered her. Murder? No problem! He doesn't love that minx; he loves me! (To be fair, it's presented like his first wife was The Vamp with absolutely no moral code and masterfully provoked him to do it... but still.)
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Rebecca / int_5c0902e7	type	Boyish Short Hair
Rebecca / int_5c0902e7	comment	Boyish Short Hair: Rebecca, by the end of her life, apparently.
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Rebecca / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Rebecca / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Mrs. Danvers has a frightening one that she likes to shoot at the second Mrs. de Winter.
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Rebecca / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Rebecca / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Mrs. Danvers adored Rebecca, whom she is implied to have raised since childhood, and is zealously loyal to her late mistress' memory. Rebecca herself is said to have felt the same way about Danvers, but also kept some very important secrets from her.
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Rebecca / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Rebecca / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: The main source of tension. The second Mrs. de Winter spends most of the book failing to live up to the memory of Rebecca, her husband's first wife, who had drowned accidentally. She is explicitly told, often, that she doesn't measure up, by Mrs. Danvers, Rebecca's personal maid. The second Mrs. de Winter becomes more and more desperate in her attempts to live up to Rebecca's memory, because Mrs. Danvers has her convinced that that is what Maxim, her husband, wants. Just when the second Mrs. De Winter (she is never given a first name, and the book is a first person narrative) is near a breakdown, and Mrs. Danvers suggests that she throw herself out of a window, it is revealed that Maxim never really loved Rebecca, and in fact, came to hate her, because she was cruel, cold, manipulative, and unfaithful. Not only that, she had taunted him one night until he murdered her, by telling him she was pregnant with another man's child, which she intended that he would support. It doesn't end there, and Maxim is vindicated, so they can go on with their lives together.
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Rebecca / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Rebecca / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Mrs. Van Hopper is relentlessly unpleasant. Rebecca, as it turns out.
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Rebecca / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Rebecca / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: Debatably in the case of Rebecca herself, since her character derived from hearsay, but otherwise the main characters fit quit nicely: The narrator (Phlegmatic), Maxim (Melancholic), Mrs. Danvers (Choleric), Rebecca (Sanguine). Alternatively, Favell also counts as sanguine.
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Rebecca / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Rebecca / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: The second Mrs. de Winter's original name being "Daphne" implies that she was supposed to be one, though there are articles suggesting that the real author insert is Rebecca (a lot of descriptors she uses for herself in these letters are similar to the descriptions of Rebecca in the novel). Of course, it could be both of them.
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Rebecca / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Rebecca / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Massive subversion; Rebecca was a sociopathic bitch who cheated on Maxim with a series of lovers, and wasn't even loyal to them either. Our young heroine, who had earlier aspired to be just like her predecessor, is glad that she's dead.
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Rebecca / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Rebecca / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: Rebecca, in the film version and The Musical; she stumbled and hit her head. This would be because of the Hays Code. In the book, she goads Maxim into shooting her.
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Rebecca / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Rebecca / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Deconstructed. Favell is casually rude, blunt, and lecherous. He's perfectly willing to sleep with Rebecca, despite her being married and his behaviour toward the narrator is downright predatory. He even attempts to capitalise on his cousin's murder with Blackmail. Nevertheless his accusations against Maxim are completely correct. Shame he's so obnoxious that when he presents his case to the magistrate, nobody believes him...
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Rebecca / int_6b7dc9e4	type	Unknown Character
Rebecca / int_6b7dc9e4	comment	Unknown Character: The main character is the second wife of the eponymous Rebecca's husband. She's compared unfavorably to Rebecca without ever being told anything about her by his staff. Nothing is revealed about her as they figure she doesn't need to know, except that she died. In the end the protagonist learns more about Rebecca and gains the respect of the inhabitants by saving them from a fire. In the film adaptation, the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, refuses to accept her and stays behind to die in the fire.
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Rebecca / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Rebecca / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Rebecca means "a snare" or "captivating". Given their tendencies to be a bit cold, and their stormy, volatile relationship, having Maxim and Rebecca share the surname "de Winter" flirts with being a bit too on the nose.
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Rebecca / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Rebecca / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Mrs. Danvers tries to do this to our heroine after the fiasco at the costume party, telling her how worthless and unlike Rebecca she is. This is foiled when they find the boat where Rebecca's Suicide by Cop happened.
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Rebecca / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Rebecca / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Mrs. Danvers blames — and will never forgive — herself for not being there to save Rebecca on the night of her death.
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Rebecca / int_6f07b093	type	Cannot Spit It Out
Rebecca / int_6f07b093	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: The heroine is convinced that she's a complete failure compared to Rebecca, her husband's first (dead) wife, until she finds out that Rebecca was evil, and the husband never loved her and murdered her. Which cheers her up immensely.
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Rebecca / int_7188489c	type	Let the Past Burn
Rebecca / int_7188489c	comment	Let the Past Burn: Mrs. Danvers goes over the edge and sets Manderley on fire. All that symbolically remains of Rebecca is burned down along with the house. In some adaptations Mrs. Danvers also burns.
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Rebecca / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Rebecca / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: Rebecca manipulated Maxim into shooting her after learning she had cancer by pretending to be pregnant with another man's child. Because of the production code, this is amended in the film and musical versions to Rebecca dying in a convenient fall just as Maxim was ready and willing to pull the trigger.
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Rebecca / int_78540917	type	Like Brother and Sister
Rebecca / int_78540917	comment	Like Brother and Sister: The second Mrs. de Winter develops this dynamic with Maxim's attorney and close friend Frank. He's immediately welcoming to her and she quickly grows very comfortable around him, and while he's a reserved fellow, it's clear he returns the affection. She trusts Frank enough to confide in him about her insecurities regarding her marriage and ask him about matters she doesn't want to go to Maxim with. Favell, seeing how close they are, tastelessly accuses them of having an affair, but it's clear to the reader that Mrs. de Winter doesn't feel that way about Frank at all.
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Rebecca / int_7b459dff	type	'20s Bob Haircut
Rebecca / int_7b459dff	comment	'20s Bob Haircut: Mrs Danvers relates how, against the advice of everyone who believed Long Hair Is Feminine, Rebecca cut her hair into a modish short style that frames her face like 'a cloud of curls' a few years into her marriage. The second Mrs. de Winter also has a bob, but her hair is (at least, according to her) unflatteringly straight, childish and lank - yet another source of insecurity. This isn't the case in the film, which has her with longer hair.
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Rebecca / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Rebecca / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In the book, Mrs. Danvers' assembly of the house staff to greet the arriving narrator. Maxim is very annoyed by it, saying he explicitly asked her not to do this and wanted a quiet arrival as if it were any other day. That Danvers does so anyway immediately places her as having an insubordinate streak to Maxim and the narrator and shows that she wants to intimidate the narrator and resents her taking Rebecca's place. In the film, it's downplayed and Maxim is more apologetic than angry and it's not as clearly insubordinate.
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Rebecca / int_815215f5	type	Chilly Reception
Rebecca / int_815215f5	comment	Chilly Reception: While most people at Manderley are fairly indifferent to the heroine, and some grow to like her very much (especially Maxim's sister Beatrice), Mrs. Danvers is the epitome of Haughty Help. She's cold, passive-aggressive, condescending, and often downright mean to the new Mrs. de Winter, who has done nothing to her and generally tries to stay out of her way. Maxim actually warns the heroine of this before they get to Manderley, saying Mrs. Danvers is prickly towards new people in general and it's truly Nothing Personal. Once Mrs. Danvers gets used to her, she'll lay off. Except no. While Mrs. Danvers is a cold and unfriendly person in general, her specific hatred of the heroine is very, very personal, since she's a replacement for Rebecca, whom Mrs. Danvers loves.
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Rebecca / int_842426f3	type	Grande Dame
Rebecca / int_842426f3	comment	Grande Dame: Mrs. Van Hopper, who passes over into Rich Bitch territory. Beatrice, who is on the more intelligent and sympathetic end of the scale. Lady Crowen, who is rather ridiculous. Maxim's grandmother was one before becoming senile.
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Rebecca / int_85ca9dab	type	Second Love
Rebecca / int_85ca9dab	comment	Second Love: The heroine for Maxim, although he grew to hate Rebecca and she never loved him; their marriage was a charade.
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Rebecca / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
Rebecca / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: Maxim admits he ought to have divorced Rebecca a long time ago, rather than give into her Deal with the Devil because he gave into social obligations. In fact, he threatened to divorce her when realizing she had broken their deal. The reason why he didn't is she claimed that no court would believe him, even if he brought Beatrice in as a witness, and she goaded him into shooting her.
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Rebecca / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Rebecca / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Rebecca.
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Rebecca / int_89ed9b94	type	Gentleman Snarker
Rebecca / int_89ed9b94	comment	Gentleman Snarker: Maxim gets decidedly snarky at the inquest. Not the cleverest tack to take when the police are suggesting you killed your wife....
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Rebecca / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Rebecca / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of Jane Eyre. Namely, Maxim isn't a bad boy like Mr. Rochester at all. He's an exhausted survivor of spousal abuse, and all of his Romanticized Abuse drops away once everything is in the open between him and his second wife.
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Rebecca / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Rebecca / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Rebecca. When the story opens, she has been dead for a year already â€” but even in her absence, her presence is inescapable, as her memory casts its shadow over the entire story.
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Rebecca / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Rebecca / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Jack Favell and Rebecca, first cousins and lovers alike.
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Rebecca / int_93deab19	type	Ominous Fog
Rebecca / int_93deab19	comment	Ominous Fog: Manderley is often shrouded in it, making the place all the more creepy.
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Rebecca / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Rebecca / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Mrs. Danvers has a mild one in all versions, but the musical takes the cake when she puts on Rebecca's nightgown and walks through Manderley in a daze, lighting the place on fire as she goes.
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Rebecca / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Rebecca / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Rebecca, in the eyes of the unreliable narrator at least.
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Rebecca / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Rebecca / int_97926168	comment	Also Maxim. His version of events regarding Rebecca's death is the only one we hear, and there are plenty of things about it that don't make sense. For instance, why does Rebecca (universally considered beautiful, charming, intelligent and vivacious) settle for a loveless marriage of convenience with Maxim when she could have had her pick of men? What 'things about herself' does she tell him that are so awful he can 'never repeat them to a living soul'? Rebecca's motivations are central to our understanding of her... but we never get to hear her side. That said, see Rewatch Bonus on this page for what others say about her even before The Reveal.
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Rebecca / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Rebecca / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: In the book at least, the police chief recommended to the de Winter couple that they should head to Switzerland and lay low for a few months, so that gossip will die down about the investigation into Rebecca's death. Maxim and the second Mrs. de Winter had already committed to leaving their life behind, with Maxim having relief at the thought of no longer having to play the "perfect" gentleman. Thus, it makes Mrs. Danvers burning down Manderley a bit excessive considering they were going to give her what she wanted: the mansion, with no new management to boss her around.
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Rebecca / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Rebecca / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Jack Favell. By informing Mrs. Danvers that Rebecca had deceived them and that Maxim had been cleared of any murder charges, he unknowingly caused Manderley's destruction. Before that, Frank Crawley. When Maxim berates Mrs. Danvers for letting Jack Favell in the house, she assumes that the narrator informed him and decides to get even with her. This is the cause of the cruel trick at the fancy dress ball. It was actually Frank who told Maxim, after he saw Jack's car turn off to Manderley. Mrs. Danvers had no idea that he was even around.
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Rebecca / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Rebecca / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: The second Mrs. de Winter finds herself surrounded by these.
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Rebecca / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Rebecca / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When the narrator is exploring the cove she discovers a buoy with the name of Rebecca's sunken boat painted on the side - 'Je Reviens', which means 'I come back'. She reflects on the cruel irony of the name, since Rebecca took it out sailing and never came back. Little does she know that the boat, with Rebecca's murdered body on board, is due to make a reappearance VERY shortly. When the narrator first confesses to Frank that she feels inadequate compared to Rebecca, Frank reassures her that she has other qualities that are just as important. Those qualities? Kindliness and sincerity. Which begs the question why he doesn't think the perfect Rebecca had those qualities... Even more eloquent, in a subtle Absence of Evidence way, is his answer to the narrator's question what Rebecca was like: "I suppose she was the most beautiful creature I ever saw." Period. For Frank, there was nothing to say for Rebecca apart from her extraordinary beauty.
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Rebecca / int_a0434be6	type	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
Rebecca / int_a0434be6	comment	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Mrs. Danvers is described as being very pale with a deathlike appearance and usually has dark hair (sometimes with grey streaks).
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Rebecca / int_a084f0e0	type	Never Speak Ill of the Dead
Rebecca / int_a084f0e0	comment	Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Deconstructed. Due to societal conventions and no one wanting to admit that Rebecca was a horrible person, the second Mrs. de Winter is led to believe that she can never measure up to Rebecca. It turns out that Beatrice knew but kept quiet for her brother's sake, while Maxim doesn't want to admit that he murdered her in a fit of passion and Ben was intimidated into telling no one or Rebecca would commit him. Ironically, Jack Favell is the first person to openly state that Rebecca had affairs, including one with him.
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Rebecca / int_a2e887be	type	Secondary Character Title
Rebecca / int_a2e887be	comment	Secondary Character Title: The protagonist is the second Mrs. de Winter (whose first name is never given). Rebecca herself is a Posthumous Character.
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Rebecca / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
Rebecca / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: The protagonist is very polite to waiters and assorted serving staff, but they are not nice to her. The personnel in the hotel at Monte Carlo were rude and unhelpful and from the Manderley staff only Clarice makes her feel welcome and comfortable.
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Rebecca / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Rebecca / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: In the novel, Maxim gets away with murder, albeit at the cost of Manderley. Danvers abandons the house and very likely sets it ablaze; she is never called to account for it. And despite being murdered, Rebecca got everything she wanted, including the sudden quick death by Suicide by Cop, over the painful end promised by terminal cancer.
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Rebecca / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Rebecca / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: In the novel, the heroine has a lot of them. Some of them are sweet, romantic flights of fancy; what life as the elegant, beloved Mrs. de Winter will be like, a domestic scene of her and Maxim and their future children, all right out of a fairytale. Others are her essentially having a panic attack and imagining the worst-case scenario of what might happen, or what people around her might be thinking. They're often extremely vivid and just as eloquently written as the rest of the story, emphasizing how they seem almost real to her in the moment.
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Rebecca / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Rebecca / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Aloof, judgmental Danvers and outgoing, sleazy Favell form a strange alliance in the story. The blunt, no-filter Beatrice takes a fancy to the shy, demure heroine.
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Rebecca / int_aa65b1e	type	Haughty Help
Rebecca / int_aa65b1e	comment	Haughty Help: Mrs. Danvers the housekeeper is contemptuous of her employer's new wife, trying to bully and belittle her. Mrs. Danvers had a very close attachment to the previous lady of the house, the titular Rebecca, and does not believe that the replacement is worthy of Rebecca's place.
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Rebecca / int_aa87556f	type	Orange/Blue Contrast
Rebecca / int_aa87556f	comment	Orange/Blue Contrast: A very blatant example in the form of the musical's poster, which is a massive flaming R with a big flourish on a strong blue background.
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Rebecca / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Rebecca / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: For Rebecca, it's her pride and overconfidence. Mrs. Danvers noted that she despised doctors and refused to see one unless absolutely necessary. This ends up costing her dearly, as her ovarian cancer goes unnoticed until it's too late.
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Rebecca / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Rebecca / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Despite her fear of and anger towards Mrs. Danvers, the narrator sympathises with her bitter recollection of the night Rebecca died: Danvers, who had been away for most of the day, feared something was deathly wrong, and after a sleepless night of paranoia and premonition, rushed alone through Manderley's woods in the dead of night to find and help her beloved mistress, but was far too late. As the truth begins to come out, Danvers grows more and more emotional, gradually viewed less as a tyrant and more as a grieving old woman, who will never forgive herself for what she sees as her own failure. Nor, of course, does she forgive Maxim when she learns the truth....
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Rebecca / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Rebecca / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Jack probably would have had better luck with his accusations if he hadn't been belligerently drunk and otherwise acting ridiculous while making them. The narrator even points out that his manner completely undermines his claims and probably saves Maxim. Mrs. Danvers also gets a dose of this in the same scene. She doesn't initially realize why Jack is asking her to testify to him and Rebecca being in love—namely, that he's trying to incriminate Maxim—so she disdainfully mocks the very idea, further weakening Jack's case.
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Rebecca / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Rebecca / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Maxim put up with Rebecca for ten years before killing her, because she did wonders for Manderley, and divorcing her would have destroyed Manderley and him. A year after her passing, Manderley is burnt to the ground by Mrs. Danvers, making all of Maxim's hardships and humiliations meaningless.
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Rebecca / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Rebecca / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: The marked class differences between Maxim and the narrator are a significant source of insecurity for the latter. Unlike Rebecca, who was born in that world and was considered a shining example of an upper class woman, the narrator is looked down upon, sneered at and perceived as inadequate by the staff and feels overwhelmed by the amount of knowledge she lacks. She does not know anything about running an estate, dealing with servants and even the simple act of making tea for her guests is stressful to her.
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Rebecca / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Maxim has this in every version. He confronts Rebecca in the privacy of her shoreside cottage, about having Favell over against his wishes. She then laughed and said if she had a child, he wouldn't be able to prove it was Favell's, and asked how he would like to raise it as the perfect heir. In the novel proper, he shot her, while in the miniseries, he strangled her with his bare hands. The Hitchcock film he has a different reaction: Maxim approaches her, angry...and smacks her in the face. That's it; obviously bad, but understated compared to the other versions. A smirking Rebecca then tripped and hit her head on some tackle, killing her instantly. While the new wife points out that it was an accident and not murder, Maxim points out that he knows that, even if the court wouldn't believe him so at least his conscience is clear on that front.
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Rebecca / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: The second Mrs. de Winter. Her narration tells us almost nothing about Maxim, the man she supposedly adores, except for a vague description early in the novel that likens him to a Medieval painting. By contrast, she is obsessed with Rebecca's appearance and physicality in general - her height, her hair, even her smell. At one point she holds Rebecca's nightgown (explicitly stated to have been left unwashed since the last time it was worn) to her face and inhales the scent of her perfume. Du Maurier, herself bisexual, queer-coded many of her characters, which brings us to...
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Rebecca / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
Rebecca / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Rebecca exploited this, having emotionally abused Maxim and sexually harassed Frank, knowing that due to societal conventions, neither would want to talk about it publicly. The fact that she played the perfect Proper Lady in public only added to this; the idea that a woman, much less perfect, kind, elegant Rebecca, could torment a man would be seen as absurd, and Frank especially would, at best, be assumed to be lying if he said he didn't want any part of whatever went on between him and Rebecca, and at worst, be assumed to have been the aggressor. The narrative itself makes it clear that Rebecca's actions were awful regardless of gender.
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Rebecca / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
Rebecca / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Rebecca seemed to have been one. She called Manderley "Manders", Mrs. Danvers "Danny", and Maxim "Max". Maxim does not seem to care much for the nickname, at least after her death when it reminds him of her. The narrator thinks this means she was close with Mrs. Danvers and Maxim, and wishes that she could use Max herself.
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Rebecca / int_c9a71d47	type	Innocence Lost
Rebecca / int_c9a71d47	comment	Innocence Lost: The Reveal of Maxim's murder of Rebecca, the trial and Danvers' psychological torture took a toll on the protagonist, who can't revert to be The Ingenue she was at the beginning, as shown by her more mature outfits. Maxim notices the change and feels guilty of making her age so fast.
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Rebecca / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Rebecca / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: In a final act of vindictiveness and emotional abuse, Rebecca goads Max into killing her, hoping to ruin his life and reputation even in death.
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Rebecca / int_cc39902e	type	Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon
Rebecca / int_cc39902e	comment	Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: The title character is described by everyone as being incredibly beautiful, intelligent, cultured, loving, and basically the perfect wife. The end has Maxim reveal that she was actually a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, who was excellent at getting people to adore her, and delighted in emotionally tormenting him.
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Rebecca / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
Rebecca / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: Arguably, since the heroine's main conflict (at first anyway) is that she can't live up to Rebecca's legacy.
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Rebecca / int_ce6b54d9	type	Enemy Eats Your Lunch
Rebecca / int_ce6b54d9	comment	Enemy Eats Your Lunch: During his blackmail attempt in the car, Jack Favell helps himself to a chicken leg from the de Winters picnic basket.
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Rebecca / int_d39d4b71	type	The Perfect Crime
Rebecca / int_d39d4b71	comment	The Perfect Crime: Subverted at the inquest, when the boat's builder explodes the theory that the boat went down accidentally.
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Rebecca / int_d4f5426	type	Absence of Evidence
Rebecca / int_d4f5426	comment	Even more eloquent, in a subtle Absence of Evidence way, is his answer to the narrator's question what Rebecca was like: "I suppose she was the most beautiful creature I ever saw." Period. For Frank, there was nothing to say for Rebecca apart from her extraordinary beauty.
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Rebecca / int_da4d59ae	type	Memento MacGuffin
Rebecca / int_da4d59ae	comment	Memento MacGuffin: Manderley.
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Rebecca / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Rebecca / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: The second Mrs. de Winter becomes even more passionately in love with Maxim once he admits that he killed Rebecca. Justified because the second Mrs. de Winter's greatest fear was that Maxim still loved Rebecca. When he confesses to killing her, it proves that he doesn't and never did. However, the novel repeatedly hints that Maxim is actually rather weak-willed (as demonstrated by Rebecca's successful Suicide by Cop and not much of a bad boy in the archetypal sense at all).
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Rebecca / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Rebecca / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Both Rebecca and Favell called Mrs. Danvers 'Danny' affectionately.
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Rebecca / int_e0b6edec	type	OnlySaneWoman
Rebecca / int_e0b6edec	comment	Only Sane Woman: The second Mrs. de Winter becomes this, as everyone around her slowly starts to lose it.
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Rebecca / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Rebecca / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Rebecca, the wild and untamed one, is likened to the horses she trained, whereas our young, submissive heroine is likened to the loyal de Winter dog, Jasper.
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Rebecca / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Rebecca / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Mrs. Danvers, who is depicted as a lesbian as blatantly as the censors would allow, what with her caressing Rebecca's minks and lingerie, and talking about how Rebecca would undress in front of her and take a bath. Also, Mr. Frith the butler and Robert the footman seem pretty close to each other, and at one point Favell mocks Robert about his love life in front of the narrator.
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Rebecca / int_e4bb68b8	type	The Charmer
Rebecca / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer: Rebecca managed to charm whoever she met.
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Rebecca / int_e55d8627	type	Present Absence
Rebecca / int_e55d8627	comment	Present Absence: Rebecca is dead, yet she influences everything and everyone around her.
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Rebecca / int_e598d4ac	type	Innocent Inaccurate
Rebecca / int_e598d4ac	comment	Innocent Inaccurate: Mrs. de Winter thinks that her husband, Max, is cold with her because he is still in love with his late wife, Rebecca. She feels that she cannot measure up to Rebecca in Max's eyes. The truth turns out to be quite different.
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Rebecca / int_e9f7b815	type	Creepy Housekeeper
Rebecca / int_e9f7b815	comment	Creepy Housekeeper: Mrs. Danvers. She is creepy in herself, with a deathlike appearance, and in her devotion to the memory of Rebecca such that she doesn't wash the clothes of Rebecca's scent and goes to her room every day.
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Rebecca / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
Rebecca / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: Played with. The novel ends very abruptly with "And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea," and gives no description of what happens next or even details of the fire. However, the ending has already been written in the form of the prologue, which takes place some time later.
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Rebecca / int_eb002293	type	Shrinking Violet
Rebecca / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: The second Mrs. de Winter is meek and shy, which allows Mrs. Danvers and Maxim to intimidate her.
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Rebecca / int_ed7817b2	type	Shrine to the Fallen
Rebecca / int_ed7817b2	comment	Shrine to the Fallen: Mrs. Danvers left Rebecca's room the way she left it.
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Rebecca / int_efe04722	type	Dances and Balls
Rebecca / int_efe04722	comment	Dances and Balls: Rebecca and Maxim regularly entertained at Manderley, and another costume ball is held in the second Mrs. de Winter's honour, at the begging of the neighbours who loved the previous ones. It doesn't go well.
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Rebecca / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Rebecca / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Played with. Rebecca seems to be this to her widowed husband Maxim, but it turns out that she was an utterly despicable woman whom he later murdered, and his haunted behavior regarding her death was caused by the strain of having to maintain a facade of devoted mourning and the knowledge that he was unable to be good enough for his innocent young second wife because of this. On the other hand, Rebecca is this trope in lesbian fashion to her one time nanny and later housekeeper Mrs. Danvers.
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Rebecca / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
Rebecca / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Frank to the de Winters.
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Rebecca / int_f1d2c779	type	Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
Rebecca / int_f1d2c779	comment	Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Rebecca is described as having had a cloud of dark hair and very white skin. Frank also describes her as the most beautiful creature he had seen.
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Rebecca / int_f3594e1	type	The All-Concealing "I"
Rebecca / int_f3594e1	comment	The All-Concealing "I": Used in the novel to leave the narrator nameless, known only as the second Mrs. de Winter.
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Rebecca / int_f360fc33	type	Dumbass Has a Point
Rebecca / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: The narrator's defining trait is that she is naive and totally lacking in worldly experience, and Maxim frequently refers to her as a fool. But in the interrogation scene she is far more aware of the dynamics of the situation than Maxim himself, and her narration makes several good points he has failed to notice - most importantly, that Julyan is starting to suspect him.
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Rebecca / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Rebecca / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The narrator tries but does maybe not quite manage it; at the very least she and Maxim live in relative peace. It is hinted that she is satisfied, and her husband is with the woman he loves, despite feeling really bad about the earlier events of the book.
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Rebecca / int_f6972f9d	type	The Mourning After
Rebecca / int_f6972f9d	comment	The Mourning After: The female protagonist believes that her husband Maxim is still carrying a torch for the titular Rebecca, his exalted dead first wife whom he lost in a tragic accident at sea. Subverted when she learns that the beloved Rebecca was actually a Manipulative Bitch whom Maxim hated.
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Rebecca / int_f829585a	type	Beauty Is Bad
Rebecca / int_f829585a	comment	Beauty Is Bad: Rebecca was considered beautiful, fashionable and elegant, and turns out to be an utterly rotten human. This contrasts to the heroine's look, who is considered plain, but she is a much nicer person.
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Rebecca / int_f909b16b	type	Dark Secret
Rebecca / int_f909b16b	comment	Dark Secret: Rebecca's murder. In theory, only Maxim and the new Mrs. de Winter know the whole story, but Favell guesses it, and one of the servants and the magistrate also figure out an unspecified amount, leading to a lot of worry about who knows what.
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Rebecca / int_faf4a043	type	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery
Rebecca / int_faf4a043	comment	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: The titular Rebecca was, rather than the lovely and kind-hearted perfect wife her successor assumed her to be, a lying, manipulative, cruel sociopath who cheated on her husband Maxim with a series of lovers â€” and was not even really in love with them either. Maxim, meanwhile, is shown putting up with this until Rebecca actually intentionally provokes him into shooting her (because she has cancer and no way of treating it, and is apparently too afraid of committing actual suicide; as well as the fact that this makes him a murderer: her ultimate attack on him). She is, in fact, so awful that the heroine, Maxim's second wife, is glad he shot Rebecca. We also find out that Rebecca seduced Giles, Maxim's brother-in-law. Giles' wife (Maxim's sister) Beatrice either knows or strongly suspects this and avoids further visits with her brother for that reason. She and Giles still seem to get along well though, and the second wife at one point feels inferior because the two have a "good marriage".
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Rebecca / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Rebecca / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Happens to the narrator when she sees Maxim for what she thinks is the last time at Monte Carlo. He asks her if she wants to go to New York with Mrs. Van Hopper or to Manderley with him. After realizing that he's serious this exchange follows:
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Rebecca / int_fc3f3cf3	comment	Little Black Dress: The second Mrs de Winter tries to impress Maxim by dressing up in a black dress she found in a fashion magazine, but he's put off because he can tell it's not her style.
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Rebecca / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Rebecca / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Subverted. The second wife eventually gains the courage to give reasonable orders to her new serving staff - as soon as she becomes an accessory to murder. When Mrs. Danvers complains that it's now how "Mrs. de Winter" did things, the narrator reminds her that she is Mrs. de Winter and this is how she likes to order her meals.
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Rebecca / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
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Rebecca / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Rebecca / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: During one of their early dates, the heroine confesses that she wishes she were thirty-six years old, wearing black satin and white pearls. Maxim makes her promise never to wear pearls or black satin. Later she attempts Beautiful All Along â€” in a black dress with white pearls. Maxim is understandably put-off.
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Rebecca	hasFeature	The Ditherer / int_22b2f3de
Rebecca	hasFeature	The Mourning After / int_22b2f3de
Rebecca	hasFeature	Triumphant Reprise / int_22b2f3de
Rebecca	hasFeature	"Ugly American" Stereotype / int_22b2f3de
Rebecca	hasFeature	Unknown Character / int_22b2f3de

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