Rebecca Critical Comments

Question 1

MJ Stevens

Answer 1

“Du Maurier’s plot orchestration means that Rebecca is lethally punished for gender-subversion.”

Question 2

Booker talk

Answer 2

We’re led to accept the narrator’s version of herself as Rebecca’s opposite.

Question 3

Nelson

Answer 3

Rebecca is the only one to have had full sexual autonomy to explore her desires.” / “The most outright obsessed with Rebecca turns out to be Mrs Danvers.”

Question 4

Varol

Answer 4

The age difference between the two characters clearly gives Maxim dominating power.”