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With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current occupants. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim's first wife—the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca.
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Married women, Cornwall (England : County), Remarriage, Remarried people, Fiction, Drama, Suspense fiction, Open Library Staff Picks, English fiction, Wives, England Gothic fiction, Love stories, Smugglers, Gothic fiction, England, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, gothic, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Cornwall (england : county), fiction, Fiction, romance, suspense, Married people, fiction, English literature, Fiction, classics, Social life and customs, Folklore, Fiction in english, self esteem, love, man and woman love, psycology, Cornwall (County), Man-woman relationships, Country homesTimes
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First Modern library edition, 1943.
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Du Maurier uses powerful flower imagery; the flowers seem to represent characters in the book.
This excerpt is in stark contrast to the description of the azaleas in the part of the property called The Happy Valley. The azaleas are delicate and beautiful, as flowers supposedly should be. So the azaleas symbolize the main character, who, plot spoiler, is the perfect demure attractive woman and the rhododendrons symbolize her nemesis, the dead Rebecca, her husband's ex, who was, we discover, not her husband's love but her husband's enemy: too strident, too greedy, "too beautiful... too powerful," just like the rhododendrons.
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