REBECCA CRITICAL VIEWS

Sally Beauman (setting)

Rebecca is the story of two women, one man and a house. Of the four, as Hitchcock once observed the house, Manderley is the dominant presence.

Olivia Lang (homosexuality?)

The narrator repeatedly casts her self in androgyne… The full heat of her desire was for rebecca

Sally Beauman (men)

Rebecca is narrated by a masochistic women, who is desperate for the validation provided by a man’s love

Rachel Sherlocke (gothic trope)

with her striking presence even after death, rebecca is the perfect foilf for the protagonist

Rachel Shelocke (double context)

For Du Maurier, the idea of the double was not simply a literary device but rather something with which she could personallly identify

Sally Beauman (Personality)

Both women reflect aspects of Du Maurier’s own complex personality: she divided herself between them