108 pages • 3 hours read
Daphne du MaurierA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
In the west wing corridor, the narrator opens the door from which Mrs. Danvers exited on her first morning at Manderley. She enters a dressing room filled with wardrobes, and then Rebecca’s bedroom. By the electric light, she is shocked to see a room furnished with flowers, brushes and combs on the dressing-table, a freshly made bed, and a satin dressing-gown with slippers. Expecting to see a shuttered room with sheet-covered furniture, the narrator is disoriented: “I thought that something had happened to my brain, that I was seeing back into Time, and looking upon the room as it used to be, before she died” (165). For a moment, she expects Rebecca to walk into the room. She waits for something to happen, until the ticking clock brings her back to present-day reality. She realizes that the flowers do not conceal the musty smell of disuse. She tells herself that Rebecca has been dead for a year, buried in the de Winters’s church crypt. She opens the shutter and discovers it is the same window at which Favell and Mrs. Danvers stood earlier that day. Daylight brings the room alive. She feels like an uninvited guest who “had strolled into my hostess’s bedroom by mistake” (165).
Plus, gain access to 8,650+ more expert-written Study Guides.
Including features:
By Daphne du Maurier
Appearance Versus Reality
View Collection
Beauty
View Collection
British Literature
View Collection
Challenging Authority
View Collection
Class
View Collection
Class
View Collection
Coming-of-Age Journeys
View Collection
Fear
View Collection
Grief
View Collection
Hate & Anger
View Collection
Historical Fiction
View Collection
Horror, Thrillers, & Suspense
View Collection
Loyalty & Betrayal
View Collection
Marriage
View Collection
Memory
View Collection
Modernism
View Collection
Mortality & Death
View Collection
Mystery & Crime
View Collection
National Book Awards Winners & Finalists
View Collection
Popular Book Club Picks
View Collection
Power
View Collection
Required Reading Lists
View Collection
Romance
View Collection
Safety & Danger
View Collection
The Past
View Collection
Trust & Doubt
View Collection
Truth & Lies
View Collection
TV Shows Based on Books
View Collection
Valentine's Day Reads: The Theme of Love
View Collection