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- Charming and hospitable
- Uncertain- The narrators bias goes against every other opinion of Rebecca (a part from Maxim)
- Talented at organising parties, running a mansion and excels at sports
- Cruel and manipulative- Mrs Danvers and Maxim confirm this
- Mean- threatens to send Ben to an asylum and threatening to pass off another man's child as your husbands to spite him
- Possible psychological abuse of Maxim
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- Antagonist
- Maxim's ex wife
- Unknowable- it is not certain that she did the things Maxim accused her of
- Tragic figure- It's not clear whether Mrs. Danvers means that Rebecca is above love, or that she's above loving men. If Rebecca was attracted to women, she was wearing a public mask completely at odds with her real desires
- Ambiguous sexuality- suggestions at her and Mrs Danvers having something (Mrs Danvers brushed her hair like Maxim did, Rebecca saying 'harder')
- Sexually active- had many affairs including her cousin Jack Favell
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- Unclear as to whether she develops or becomes a better person upcoming her death (unlikely due to the threat of her passing off a child as Maxim's)
- Unclear as to whether she was a better person before Maxim- possibly Maxim's influence that made her mean and having affairs?
- Unclear as to whether Rebecca liked Maxim or not at the beginning- Maxim always hated Rebecca but did Rebecca always hate Maxim?
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- I hated her, I tell you. Our marriage was a farce from the very first. She was vicious, damnable, rotten through and through
- I shot Rebecca in the cottage
- I nearly killed her then
- It would have been so easy. One false step, one slip.
- "Harder, Max, harder," she would say, laughing up at him, and he would do as she told him.
- They made love to her of course; who wouldn't?
- Told me things i shall never repeat to a living soul
- Love-making was a game with her, only a game
- They're cruel to people in the asylum.
- She was not in love with you, or with Mr de Winter. She was not in love with anyone. She despised all men. She was above all that.
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