Describe 4 characters in the book Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.?

include physical characteristics





attitude





why he or she is important to the storyy





in writing about the narrator give your opinion as to why she is not named in the story.

Describe 4 characters in the book Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.?
The narrator. A shy, self-conscious young woman from a lower-middle class background, she begins the novel as a paid companion to Mrs. Van Hopper, a wealthy American woman. I don't remember her looks, but I'd say she's kind of dowdy, plain. In my opinion, she is never named because the title is Rebecca, even though Rebecca is dead, her place in the story is the reason for everything. The reason why Max won't get close, why he suddenly gets angry over something she does (the costume ball). If she were named, the focus would be less on Rebecca.





Maxim de Winter - A cultured, intelligent older man, and the owner of Manderley, a prized estate and mansion on the English coast. I don't remember his looks either, but he's supposed to be really handsome (hey, he was played by Laurence Olivier, that says something lol.) Max is closed off. Secretive. He has a secret that is eating at his insides. Because of this, he doesn't allow himself to get close the narrator, doesn't really talk to her, and it wasn't even until that night when Rebecca's sailboat washed up on shore that he even kissed her with passion, when before it had been chaste kisses that wouldn't be shared between husband and wife.





Rebecca - In life, Rebecca was the beautiful, much-loved, accomplished wife of Maxim de Winter, and the mistress of Manderley. Now a ghost, she haunts the mansion, and her presence torments the heroine after her marriage to Maxim. I believe she had red hair. But Rebecca had two faces. Her public face, and the one that she showed Max. She was evil and heartless. She had fooled Max for a time, but then the day on the cliffs when he first got the urge to push her to her death, she revealed all her secrets to him and got him to go into an arrangement with her. If he married her, he'd get all the prestige and good fortune, just as long as he let her have her own way. I don't remember why he agreed. A moment of weakness on his part I guess.





Mrs. Danvers - The sinister housekeeper at Manderley. She was fiercely devoted to Rebecca, and remains devoted to her even after death. She despises the heroine for taking her mistress's place. She tricks the narrator into wearing the same costume that Rebecca had worn all those years before, just because she liked to see Max at odds with her. Mrs. Danvers knew all of Rebecca's dark secrets, she told her everything.





here's some more. Some of what I wrote I took from here, but the last bits came from me.


http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/rebecca/ch...
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