In the novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, do you think the namelessness of the narrorator is Symbolic?

What do you think? I'm writing a paper about it and I need help.

In the novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, do you think the namelessness of the narrorator is Symbolic?
I'm not quite sure how the namelessness of the narrator is symbolic except for, perhaps, the overpowering, nameless fears that can be fed by suggestion - like Mrs Danvers - until the truth is known. Here are some ideas that you might like to look at:





"Over the years many people have asked why the second Mrs de Winter does not have a name. Daphne du Maurier’s reply to this was that she could not think of one and it became a challenge in technique to write the whole story without naming her. It proved to be a very effective way of making the character appear to be a lesser person than Rebecca, so that she is less confident, less capable, less attractive to Maxim, not even a significant enough person to be named."


http://www.dumaurier.org/reviews-rebecca...





"... this proved to be a highly effective way of making the character appear to be a lesser person than Rebecca - she is not even significant enough to be named, while her predecessor is important enough to have the whole book named after her. As Mrs Danvers says at one point, "She's the real Mrs de Winter, not you - It's you who are the shadow and the ghost"."


http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/re...





In the film, "She’s young, probably in her early twenties, awkward to the point of clumsiness, even immature at times. Her nerves are on edge, her eyes darting and suspicious, and she actually carries her purse around the house with her (evidence of feeling ‘not at home’). Everything around her makes her seem like a child in a grown up world, from the eye level doorknobs (which we only see “I” use) to her husband actually calling her “a good girl,” “a child,” and “little fool” to her hand-in-the-cookie jar reaction when Danvers finds her in the West Wing. Even camera movements on “I” accentuate her isolation, her ‘diminishing.’"


http://upcomingdiscs.com/2003/07/02/rebe...





Also try:


http://victorian.fortunecity.com/bramble...


http://www.sonderbooks.com/Fiction/rebec...