REBECCA SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER 1

  • Narrator dreams of Manderley

  • she can’t access it

  • overgrown by nature

CHAPTER 2

  • Narrator and Maxim are in a hotel room

  • Maxim is a shell of himself

  • the two are vapid and shell shocked

  • considers Mrs Van Hopper and Monte

  • have an unhappy meal

  • Maxim arrives, much interest

CHAPTER 3

  • Ms Van Hopper tries to catch Maxim, she send the narrator for a letter

  • Maxim treats the pair equally

  • Narrator compares Maxim to the ‘gentleman unknown’

  • then realises, this is inaccurate

CHAPTER 4

  • Hopper gets the flu

  • Maxim and the narrator have lunch

  • Narrator and the Maxim drive

  • Maxim briefly considers Manderley

  • The Narrator finds Rebecca’s poem book

CHAPTER 5

  • consider fever of first love

  • more driving with Maxim

  • Maxim attempts to dispel Narrators illusions

CHAPTER 6

  • Narrator from present considers impact of packing and moving again

  • Hopper wants to leave monte for NYC

  • spend day packing

  • next day, say goodbye to Maxim

  • He proposes

  • sets fire to book of poems

  • tells Van Hopper about the marriage - she is disparaging

CHAPTER 7

  • drive up the road to Manderly

  • Narrator considers alternate life with Maxim

  • Ms Danvers assembles the staff

  • meet Ms Danvers

  • Ms Danvers shows the narrator her room

  • sit in living room with the dogs - In rebecca’s seat

CHAPTER 8

  • breakfast

  • narrator sits at Rebecca’s writing desk

  • Ms Danvers on house telephone

  • comparison in handwriting                    

CHAPTER 9

  • Narrator stumbles into a closed up room

  • meet Beatrice and Giles

  • Narrator messes up the meeting

  • Beatrice and Narrator talk

  • Beatrice enquires about Danvers

CHAPTER 10

  • Narrator and Maxim go to Happy Valley

  • go down to the beach

  • Narrator meets Ben

  • Maxim gets upset at the beach

  • Narrator finds the handkerchief and smell in Rebecca/her coat

CHAPTER 11

  • Narrator mentions fear of mentioning the sea and overthinks

  • compares herself to rebecca

  • meet Bishops wife and she mentions Rebecca and ball

  • Frank mentions some events of the drowning

  • Frank comforts the narrator and her status

CHAPTER 12

  • introduction of Clarice

  • feels like a guest at Manderley

  • birthday gifts

  • narrator breaks the china cupid and hides it

  • its revealed and Maxim ridicules her

  • question the importance of age in marriage

CHAPTER 13

  • Maxim leaves, narrator feels he may never return

  • sees Je reviens

  • conversation with ben about Rebecca

  • walks back through the pvergrown nature

  • Jack favell arrives

CHAPTER 14

  • Narrator goes into rerbecca’s room

  • Danvers appears, obsessed with

  • Danvers mentions how rebecca died

CHAPTER 15

  • dream about Maxim in the woods, he is too far away

  • Beatrice arrives, visit Ms de Winter Sr who wants Rebecca

CHAPTER 16

  • Lady Crowan mentions a masked ball

  • she suggests DRESDEN SHEPERDESS

  • Maxim suggests Alice in Wonderland

  • Narrator wants to be old

  • Danvers suggests picture in the hallway

  • Maxim catches narrator pretening to be narrator and says she looks like a criminal

  • Maxim comments on nature of women vs men

  • Frank suggests Joan of arc

  • tells Maxim how amazing her dress is

  • excited, puts on dress, confident, drummer announces her

  • silence

CHAPTER 17

  • rips off dress

  • goes down, is shamed by people, Maxim ignores her

  • Maxim never comes to bed

CHAPTER 18

  • Narrator considers age, how much Maxim loves Narrator

  • Frank says how different she is to Rebecca

  • Beatrice leaves a note

  • Maxim still gone

  • Danvers salivates over Rebecca

  • Danvers says Narrator should jump out the window

CHAPTER 19

  • Rebecca’s boat is washed ashore

  • Max already gone

  • sees Ben on route to the beach

  • speaks to the Captain

  • MAx hugs narrator, very close

  • Maxim reveals his secret

CHAPTER 20

  • discuss murder

  • discuss Rebecca’s life

CHAPTER 21

  • realises Maxim didn’t love Rebecca

  • sit close together in the library

  • reporter from the County chronicle rings

  • Colonol Julyan arrives

  • Maxim reflects on killing narrator’s youth

CHAPTER 22

  • Frith brings in newspaper

  • Narrator goes with Maxim to the police

  • inquest of the coroner and boat builder

  • Maxim nearly loses his temper

  • Narrator faints

CHAPTER 23

  • Narrator waits for Maxim

  • drive back to Manderley

  • a storm

  • Maxim returns - verdict is suicide

  • Maxim leaves to see the vicar

  • Favell arrives and is mean to Robert

  • reveal they were lovers

  • Favell says Rebecca was murdered

CHAPTER 24

  • Favell goes off his rocker

  • bring Ben in to testify

  • Danvers come in to say her piece

CHAPTER 25

  • continue investigation

  • lockied into the bedroom

CHAPTER 26

  • leave manderley

  • MAxim is ill, child like

  • visit Rebecca’s doctor

  • Rebecca couldn’t have children

  • Rebecca had cancer

CHAPTER 27

  • reflect on secret of Rebecca’s

  • Favell comments on how well this worked out for Maxim

  • Colonel Jolyan suggests going abroad

  • Maxim reflects

  • narrator falls asleep

  • she and narrator are one and the same

  • Manderley burns