he explains his past life with Rebecca, which helps to make the plot more engaging and draws the reader into the world of Manderley. All the characters are continuously developed through-out the novel and their pasts are learned, except for the narrator, who’s past is never learned; probably because Ms. du Maurier thought it was irrelevant to the plot and did not want to develop the narrator’s past excessively. Secondly, Rebecca has strong foreshadowing. On page four, Ms. du Maurier writes, “For Manderley was ours no longer. Manderley was no more.” This is the strongest and most obvious foreshadowing in the story. The reader automatically knows that something tragic happens to Manderley and it’s inhabitants. In the rest of the story, however, she uses many almost unnoticeable accounts of foreshadowing, which hint to the reader that something is going to happen. She hints to Rebecca’s dress at the fancy dress ball, when Mrs. de Winter is with

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