The housekeeper is just a servant, the man who indulges Rebecca's shadow

Abigail 2022-04-21 09:01:44

The housekeeper is just a servant. If the male protagonist doesn't like it or doesn't want it, he can remove all traces of Rebecca. He obviously resisted so much, why should he indulge the housekeeper to continue using the furniture with R and everything?

Could it be that he was afraid that people would suspect that he didn't love the dead Rebecca, so he had acquiesced to her and kept her traces?

In fact, it is obvious that "seeing things and thinking people" and "difficult to face" can be used as excuses to clear the traces of Rebecca.

But the hero didn't do that.

Why?

Because he is cowardly.

Just like when his wife was alive, he did not resist her control.

As if he ignored his new wife being tortured by Rebecca's shadow.

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Rebecca quotes

  • Mrs. de Winter: [opening voice-over] Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. The drive wound away in front of me, twisting and turning as it had always done. But as I advanced, I was aware that a change had come upon it. Nature had come into her own again, and little by little had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers. On and on wound the poor thread that had once been our drive, and finally there was Manderley. Manderley - secretive and silent. Time could not mar the perfect symmetry of those walls. Moonlight can play odd tricks upon the fancy, and suddenly it seemed to me that light came from the windows. And then a cloud came upon the moon and hovered an instant like a dark hand before a face. The illusion went with it. I looked upon a desolate shell with no whisper of the past about its staring walls. We can never go back to Manderley again. That much is certain. But sometimes, in my dreams I do go back to the strange days of my life, which began for me in the South of France.

  • Maxim de Winter: You despise me, don't you?