Rebecca Love Quotes

Indeed, the narrator paid the price of her innocence to compensate her triumph of adulthood, which is inevitable for everyone(Messud). While Maxim had to pay the high price of staying married to a woman he did not love and even grew to hate over the years. Only for the continued success of Manderley. When Rebecca revealed her cruel nature and immoral behavior, ones that Maxim won't even repeat, Maxim would not call their marriage off. What was even more concerning was the fact he felt the urge to kill her on the spot from the amount of disgusted he felt. So if he felt that way he why go through the pain of staying married to this woman. Why would he fake his happiness and deal with the worry of covering for Rebecca? He could have saved himself years
Maxim admitted to the narrator that he'd rather ignore all his old bitter memories; forget them totally if he could( Maurier 39). Actually a trait that he loved about the Narrator was the fact that she helped him forget about the past. The strain Rebecca has put on him from their marriage gave birth to a great level of hate and loathing he felt for her. From her constant mocking of the staff and other people they we acquainted with, to sleeping with other men and flirting with his assistant ,Frank, and his sister's husband, then the last straw came when she made indications of her being pregnant with another man's child. All that pent up rage brought him to murdering Rebecca, which was exactly what she wanted him to do. Even her death made him stressful. He has stayed up late at night pacing around his room from nervousness of someone finding her body one day. Then to sum it up he went throw the whole ordeal of her body being found, and put to trial, only to witness his precious estate burn to