Rebecca Flashcards
Narrator describing Rebecca’s cursive R
X2
“Somewhere her voice still lingered, and the memory of her words” - recall to poetry book “max”
“And then as it bubbled through the nib, it came a little thick, so that the name Rebecca stood out black and strong, the tall and sloping R dwarfing out the other letters”
Rebecca and her influence on manderley
X3
“Rebecca was still the mistress of Manderley. Rebecca was still Mrs De Winter”
“Her voice, echoing through the house and down the garden, careless and familiar like the writing in the book”
“The beauty of Manderley that you see today, the Manderley that people talk about and soho to graph and paint it’s all due to her, to Rebecca”
The narrator describing Rebecca
X2
“ she had beauty that endured, and a smile that was not forgotten”
“I knew her figure now, the long slim legs, the small narrow feet. Her shoulders, broader than mine, the capable clever hands. I knew her face too, small and oval. The clear white skin, the cloud of her dark hair”
Other people describing Rebecca
X2
Bishops wife “she was certainly very gifted. I can see her now, standing at the foot of the stayed on the night of the ball, shaking hands with everybody, that cloud of dark hair against the very white skin, and her costume suited her. Yes she was very beautiful”
Ben “you’re not like the other one … Tall and dark she was. She gave you the feeling of a snake”
Maxim’s description of Rebecca
X2
“She was vicious, damnable, rotten through and through. We never loved each other, never had one moment of happiness together. Rebecca was incapable of love, of tenderness, of decency. She was not even normal”
“Had she met you, she would have walked off into the garden with you, arm-in-arm, calling to Jasper, chatting about flowers, music, painting, whatever she knew to be your particular hobby, and you would have been taken in, like the rest. You would have sat at her feet and worshipped her.”
Narrators description of her after the confession
X1
“Now that I knew her to be evil and vicious and rotten, I did not hate her anymore”
