The Narrator

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  • Created by: Abby0405
  • Created on: 06-03-19 18:43

Personality

Role

  • Passive
  • Unimportant- never named
  • Naive- never worries for her safety around Maxim after finding he killed Rebecca
  • Bias- throughout the novel the narrator sees characters like Rebecca and Mrs Danvers as villians and Maxim as a victim regardless of their actions
  • Mysterious- we know nothing of her past
  • Morally ambiguous- wants to cover up Maxim's murder
  • Young woman, 21, working class
  • Maxim's second wife
  • Younger, less experienced and financially dependent on Maxim
  • Opposition to Rebecca
  • Belongs to Maxim- only name given is Mrs de Winter

Development (Growth & change)

Other information              

  • From dependent to Maxim depending on her
  • Childish at the start- mother-like figure at the end
  • Insecure to secure in her relationship with Maxim
  • Self-conscious to confident
  • Secondary to Rebecca- 1st in Maxim's heart
  • Jealous to selfless after finding the truth
  • I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child
  • I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love
  • What degradation lay in being young
  • I was a child yesterday
  • He likes me in the way I like Jasper
  • And Maxim did not love me

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