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Who’s Buried in Rebecca’s Crypt? The Existential Specter in Daphne du Maurier
In Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca, the unnamed female narrator meets Maxim de Winter at a Monte Carlo resort, where he has come to rest after the death of his wife Rebecca.
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The two marry and return to the de Winter estate in southern England, where the new bride learns about Rebecca’s accidental drowning and her burial in the family crypt. Like a Gothic heroine, Maxim’s naïve young wife becomes trapped in the equivalent of a haunted castle, a dungeon, or a chamber of horrors.
She is held spiritually captive by her husband, by the ghostly presence of Rebecca, and by Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper of Manderley’s original mistress. She ultimately frees herself from the mesmerizing control of Mrs. Danvers, flees from Manderley with her husband, and settles into a low-profile life of self-selected exile in which she has become the dominant partner, admitting that “his dependence upon me .
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