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When we read a book which written in first person, we usually regard ourselves as the author.We hate what he or she hate and like what he or she like.Rebecca, written by Daphne du Maurier, tells us a story between two completely different women(one is clever, beautiful and dangerous while the other is quiet, honest and ordinary).However, they don’t fight for a man’s love, but for the influence on the man and his all surroundings.The most attractive part is that the dreadful woman is dead at the beginning of the story, but not her powerful effect.She is Rebecca, the elegant and flamboyant first Mrs.DeWinter.She is described utterly evil, not just because she is unfaithful to Maxim but she has no love and tenderne.Although she has grace, confidence, brains and beauty, she is morally rotten, using her charm and beauty to be liked.Rebecca is a “snake” to Ben”, but a lover to Favell.She is admired by Mrs.Danvers, but confused by Frank, disliked by Beatrice and hated by Maxim.Her death is the cleverest tarp she has ever done.She is doomed to death in several months, but she infuriates Maxim and make him kill her with a purpose to destroy his life.Unfortunately, her death is not the end of the nightmare of Maxim and others.There are her shadows here and there in Manderley: she is always alive in people’s memories.Finally, Mrs.Danvers who deeply admires Rebecca replace her role to fight and set a fire on Manderly that totally destroyed Maxim.The second Mrs.DeWinter, the teller of the story, is a very quiet and easily frightened person at first.She is quite opposite to Rebecca and feels anything wrong that happens around her is all her fault.Her lack of confidence is part and parcel leading the gap between her and Maxim.She thought that Maxim loved Rebecca and she can never replace her.On the other hand, because of her love to Maxim, she is brave enough to support him.For the storyteller , the most important thing is to make him happy.Knowing that he murdered Rebecca and the crime is in danger of being discovered is le important than her happine when Maxim told her that he hated Rebecca and opened his heart to her for the first time.The proce of the inquiry is her proce of growing up.By the end of the novel, she has become a strong character who is able to make decisions and give her own opinions.Although she has defeated the memory of Rebecca, she has lost her original personalities Maxim likes the first sight he saw her.At the end of the story, it seems that the storyteller has
defeated Rebecca, but Mrs.Danvers’ ruining of Manderley makes it uncertain.Because Manderley is the most precious thing in Maxim’s heart, and now he has lost half of his soul.So she only get half of Maxim, the other half of him has gone with Manderley as well as Rebecca.