By entering your email address you agree to receive emails from Shmoop and verify that you are over the age of 13. He persuades his wife by confessing the truth and getting her on his side. That kind of crying, deep into a pillow, does not happen after we are twenty-one.” When she was asked to leave Monte Carlo and move to New York, it was quite a disappointment for Mrs. De Winter. Enjoy eNotes ad-free and cancel anytime. There is a whirlwind romance and the new Mrs de Winter is carried off to the remote pile in Cornwall that her husband calls home. First, Maxim persuaded Mrs. De Winter to marry him rather than actually loving her and asking for marriage. VIDEO: New Zealand and Bolivia Elections – A View from Afar... LIVE: A View from Afar – With Paul Buchanan + Selwyn... Evening Report LIVE: Tech Now with Sarah Putt and Selwyn Manning... LIVE: A View from Afar – Paul Buchanan + Selwyn Manning... 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With Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson in the lead roles, it was the director's first Hollywood feature. Now, he doesn't care what burns – he drops his "glowing stubs" everywhere. So what has changed to make him seem more like a patient than a mogul? Next. Didn't the production's financial backers allow him the scope to do so? However, it does not take out the truth that Maxim killed Rebecca and he has been lying to his wife. Read more: Psycho turns 60 – Hitchcock’s famous fright film broke all the rules. Frank and Colonel Julyan seem to suggest that role playing is a healthy, perhaps even necessary outlet for our desires: maybe dressing up as someone else helps us work out our issues. Um, seriously? Maximilian de Winter. It is a psycho-drama of passion, lust and jealousy, themes that never date. Danvers even gets her to think of throwing herself out the window. Take a look at this passage, where Mrs. de Winter describes how she can tell when Maxim is remembering the past:I can tell by the way he will look lost and puzzled […] all expression dying away from his dear face […] and in its place a mask will form […] formal and cold, beautiful still but lifeless. In fact, however, he killed her himself. This classic tale of female insecurity and jealousy has been directed by Ben Wheatley, from a screenplay written by Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel, and Anna Waterhouse. In the novel Rebecca, Maxim is disappointed by the bad experience with his x-wife. A visual feast. ", Colonel Julyan: "It's natural, I suppose, […] for all of us to wish to look different. But Maxim talking "quickly and eagerly"? 3. A big difference between the Faust stories and Rebecca is that in those stories, the devil is actually the devil, a supernatural being who can't be conquered. Our narrator is actually the second Mrs. de Winter — the first, named Rebecca, was a fabulous and charming beauty, beloved by all — including … But she is poor, a sin in those days, and not terribly welcome in the ruling class. Maxim is a liar. Since it was published in 1938, the gothic Daphne du Maurier novel on which the film is based has never been out of print. In Monte Carlo, our narrator meets Maxim de Winter, a tall, dark and handsome aristocrat, recently widowed. And it's not that she doesn't remember it, or that nobody calls her by it. Consider this reflection from the same scene: "It was not easy to explain my father and usually I never talked about him. His approach was making a business like deal with Mrs. De Winter. On page 52, Maxim articulates the two options, “I repeat you; the choice is open to you. Fancy. "(4.33-34)Wait a second: is it because of her family that our narrator hides her name? It's not entirely clear what Maxim does all day, but it's probably wheeling, dealing, schmoozing, and politicking. Daddy issues or not, we know that our narrator feels an extreme need to be identified as Mrs. de Winter. He was my secret property. A visual feast. Rebecca can be recognised as part of the genre of the “female gothic”, critic Ellen Moers’ term for works that derive their terror from women’s domestic entrapment and manipulation, as in the Bluebeard folktale. Could the plot of Rebecca make sense if the setting was America in the 21st century? ( Log Out /  Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Hyde. However, when she marries Maxim De Winter her life totally changes. The reader of the novel will not find any evidence that Maxim loves Mrs. De Winter. During Maxim's confession he suggests that Rebecca, as the devil, drove him mad. The remains of Rebecca’s boat were discovered due to a storm, and therefore he had no choice but to tell the truth. Whatever we knew about Maxim at Manderley, we know now is completely different. As head of the household staff, Mrs Danvers - Kristin Scott Thomas icy tough in the role - leads the charge, humiliating and undermining her new mistress. As a woman alone in the world, she is prey to the worst of the worst kind of rogue and villain. and find homework help for other Rebecca questions at eNotes Since his wife drowned in a boating accident a year ago, Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer) has found little to keep himself amused, until an awkward, self-conscious English girl (James) appears. He's simultaneously a tortured soul and a calculating arch-manipulator. Coming back to Manderley, the new wife, Mrs. De Winter gets a glimpse of Rebecca and her life with Maxim. But she is poor, a sin in those days, and not terribly welcome in the ruling class. Could I have a Maxim de Winter character sketch from Rebecca? A sure sign that nothing of what she seems to own, can, or ever will, belong to her. By the elegant copperplate 'R' on objects scattered around. It's hard not to wonder why Wheatley, who is a critically acclaimed British indie director, didn't give today's audiences more to think about in his Rebecca. To hear Maxim tell it, his murder of Rebecca (who was, it seems, unfaithful) has nothing to do with jealousy. Maxim would be right at home in an Edgar Allan Poe story or a Brontë novel. Let's ask him: "I put Manderley first, before anything else" (20.44). On page 60, she says “Naturally one wants you to be happy, and I grant you he’s a very attractive creature but-well, I’m sorry; and personally I think you are making a big mistake – one you will bitterly regret.” This means that Maxim is a two-sided person and that Mrs. De Winter will not be happy in this relationship.