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. Edythe Van Hopper: [to Joan Fontaine] The trouble is, wiith me laid up like this, you haven't had enough to do.

  • [the new Mrs. de Winter wants to dispose of Rebecca's letters]

    The Second Mrs. de Winter: I want you to get rid of all these things.

    Mrs. Danvers: But these are Mrs. de Winter's things.

    The Second Mrs. de Winter: *I* am Mrs. de Winter now!