Explore Feelings

Berry Boeckman

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Mr. De Winter and his new wife had an awkward relationship. He had a major secret and she had no idea about it. She knew that his late wife had died and that this event had devastated him, or so she thought. But then their relationship changed dramatically, Mrs. De Winter would finally know the truth.

The late Mrs. De Winter’s ship had been found in the cove a year after it had “sunk”. Mr. De Winter and Mrs. De Winter were sitting together in the library when she asked if they could start over and have a happy marriage. This was when Maxim told her that they “lost their chance of happiness,” (265) and then told her that Rebecca’s boat had not sunk and that he had killed her and sunk the boat himself.

Mrs. De Winter was not sad, for now she knew that he never loved Rebecca but loved her. “[Her] heart was light like a feather floating in the air. [Maxim] had never loved Rebecca”(274). This news was like the destruction of a brick wall that had been in between them. She was no longer intimidated by the memory of Rebecca.