Rebecca

[maamajullah]

Hi y'all!
What is the difference between the
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
and
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and Sally Beauman?

Which one should i read?

It's about jealousy

the hopeless and hapless pursuit of romantic love by rebecca,with some whodunnit did he/didnt he thrown in

it's about a young girl too stupid and lacking in self-esteem to realise what an utter wanker she's wasting her time and her youth with.

Hello ChristmasT42
I've never read Rebecca.
What have I missed?

rushed marriage to evasive widower
big scary house
paranoid new bride
scary housekeeper
omnipresent spectre of ex-wife Mrs DeWinter
whodunnit
fire

that is rushed no big clue synopsis

It's fabulous! About image and reality. Elegance. Paranoia, yes. Lesbianism (housekeep with a crush). Glamour. Landscape. Read it!

Ok. I'll see if the library has a copy tomorrow.

Oh glad you made it (I found Adventcandlequeen on another thread and directed her here)!!!

Rebecca is lovely and horrible and thrilling and scary and romantic and chilling - and you have to go and buy a copy tomorrow if you haven't read it!!!

expat - I don't think MrsdW is stupid - I think she is naive. Naivity is her flaw - that will be fixed by having experiences - but she is also pure and honest and real - all the things Rebecca is not. That is why MrdW falls in love with her.

(considers re-reading as maybe I was too young and naive myself when i first read Rebecca to read anyone but the 2nd MrsdW character with sympathy!!!)

two very diferent women.Mrs DW cold stark calculating and sexualised.rebecca naive hapless non-sexual

comparison of light and dark characterisations.archetypal representation's of women

expat, can I just say that I completely agree about Maxim

No-one else saw a little something of Rochester in Maxim???

I want to know her name!!!!!!!!!

LOVE the book - one of my favourites! And the fil is very good too (the Hitchcock one)

Why doesn't Du Maurier tell us her name?

I think it is because she is exactly the kind of person we would all bump into about ten times and each time not remember her name. While Rebecca - you would know that name having never met the woman!!!

What do you think???

I always think of her name as Lesley as it is supposed to be a masculine sounding name the same as her fathers.

And agree that Maxim is very similar to Mr Rochester, but they are similar stories anyway.

Orphan with no friends meets dark brooding man with mysterious past.

They are both books I have read over and over again.

Max de Winter is nowhere NEAR Mr Rochester, IMO.

He keeps being wet.

Manderley burns and he keeps running away, living in its shadow.

Rochester does no such thing.

Rochester is over Bertha and is not so attached to Thornfield Hall. He'd never have traded Thornfield Hall for his integrity, unlike Max de Winter, who did so for Manderley.

She is foolish, the second Mrs de Winter. Because at the end she's been living such a nomadic life with Max even after years. Stupid.

She'll hit 30 and that will tire.

a.a.a...And Rebecca = woman upstairs

and the fires too....

While Frenchman's Creek, I felt, had more than a scent of Wuthering Heights about it...

but that is another thread!!!!

I loved this book, it was unputdownable. However, at the end, I thought why did he not just get rid of Mrs Danvers?

And no, I didn't think it was a happy ending - she sounds empty and sad, and she's so young.

I think I agree with expat's assessment of Mr de Winter

Mmmm... suspects expat is in love with Rochester!!!

Rochester is WAY more man than Max de Winter.

puhleeze!

The second Mrs dW's low self esteem is such that she is bound to be someone's victim. Maxim couldn't cope with his first wife, so finds someone he can domminate completely. When I first read the book at a much younger age, I totally sympathised with her; now I find the saddest character is Rebecca. She is frustrated, she fantasises, she can't find what she needs with Maxim, she is sick and afraid to face what she knows is to come. Mrs Danvers would suffocate her.

Oh - interesting reading of Lesley ( - cw), racingsnake.

I have a friend who is drawn to partners who make her a victim. I didn't know her when I read Rebecca - maybe if I read it again having seen her live her life I would notice that now too.

It is incredible, it is only by talking about the book now, with you, many years after reading it that I realise how much, when reading Rebecca, I had projected my own insecurities into the characters...

Reminded of C.S Lewis quote

"We read so we are not alone."

And Michael Morpurgo explaining that children rarey cry at his books while adults nearly always do!

I have seen Michael Morpurgo speak three times. He is brilliant, funny, inspirational and made me want to be a writer. I just wish I enjoyed his books ...

I love it too, in fact I want to read it again now. It's so amazing the way she writes it without ever giving the heroine a name (apart from the second Mrs de Winter of course) - I love that. It's so true about how you can see a man in a particular light and that can be so completely different from what the underlying truth is.

I read it again, snow.

She writes as someone who never had a child.