The film unfolds from a first-person perspective, and the heroine's name never even appears.
She is timid. Perhaps it was because she had been employed by Mrs. van Hove, who had always maintained a modest attitude, or rather, had always been submissive. When she tried to tell Derwent the news that she had to leave for New York immediately, the panicked look was very much like that of a girl in love, and she hid it everywhere for fear of being discovered by her mother. After arriving at the manor, she not only had to face the almost fanatical and perverted worship of Rebecca by Mrs. Danvers, who was always expressionless, but also could not escape the shadow of Rebecca that shrouded her everywhere. After all, she was only a girl in her twenties, and her sudden love tied up too many things that should not have been borne by her.
She is lonely. Back at Manderley Manor, Derwent didn't seem as close to her as she used to be, and the long dining table was photographed twice, how much she wanted to get close to her husband's heart at the other end of the table. She walks in the huge manor, but her new husband is rarely accompanied by her. No one was her friend in the manor, and all compared her to the former Mrs. Derwent, a pain that could neither be discovered by the housekeeper nor told to her husband.
She is brave. She hadn't hesitated about love since asking Derwent in the mountains of Monte Carlo why she was always taking her out for a ride. Even though she was stinged again and again, and witnessed her husband's "missing" for his ex-wife again and again, she always tolerated it carefully, trying to slowly ease the pain in her husband's heart. After learning the truth at the beach house, she decided to face it together with her husband; during the public trial, her husband's emotions were on the verge of collapse, and she fainted in time to save the situation.
Her love may be blind, but it is also firm. At the beginning and end of the film, she is completely different. As Derwent said, the young and innocent look when I first saw her will never come back. In the eyes of outsiders, she is indeed far less intelligent, beautiful, and talented than Rebecca, but all she cares about is her husband's sincerity. Maybe it's stupid to sacrifice herself for love, but fortunately, it finally proved that it was all worth it.
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