The narrator of this story is a very important character. She is never given a name but she is the woman who marries Mr. De Winter, another main character of the story. They meet in Monte Carlo, and they marry shortly after. The narrator is described as a delicate, plain looking woman. The reader gets the impression that she is fairly young and very timid. She describes herself as having ‘mousy hair and thin lips’. The narrator has a huge role in this book because she is the woman that comes in and replaces Maxims (Mr. De Winter) other wife. The other wife’s name was Rebecca. The narrator and Rebecca have nothing in common. Rebecca was a very outgoing, beautiful, evil woman. The narrator is a very shy, reserved, sweet woman. The narrator has a very hard time running the household that she has gained possession over. We see this in the ways she talks to the servants in the house. She seems much more afraid of them, than they are of her. One example is when a charac

th her husband, and how much she loves him.

The theme of relationships is a very important theme as well. Daphne DuMaurier puts emphasis on the different relationships between characters. For example, there is an extremely good relationship between Rebecca and Ms. Danvers. But Ms. Danvers hates the narrator because she thinks that she is trying to replace Rebecca. Another good example is the relationship between Maxim and Rebecca. Everyone around them thinks that they are the perfect couple, when in reality the despise each other and spend most of their time apart from one another. Not only does the author show us many different types of relationships, she also lets us see into them. The relationships in this book tend to be very complicated. There is so much that we discover about each character through their relationships with other characters because we can relate one to the other. These are the two main themes that we look at in this book. There are many other themes in this book such as love, hate, fear, and growing up. Along with these there are many others that tie into mystery and relationships. All of these themes are important.

e not as close as she would like them to be and she constantly wants to prove to Maxim, that she is not a child. A very serious issue that lies with the narrator is the competition between herself and Rebecca. She builds a complex for herself that she will never be as good or as wonderful as the late Mrs. De Winter was. This makes her ver

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