Rebecca Flashcards
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
. . . We can never go back to Manderley again, that much is certain.
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I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.
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They say he can’t get over his wife’s death… (mrs van hopper)
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Never for a moment did he interrupt [as] he had made a fool of her in front of me, and clung to it grimly
…forgive me, I was very rude this afternoon (m)
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I was aware of that feeling of discomfort, as though I had trespassed on forbidden ground
My shyness fell away from me, loosening as did so my reluctant tongue
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An appalling tradegy…she was drowned you know, in the bay near Manderley (mrs van hopper, doesn’t sound too past tense)
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I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love…a fever, burden, whatever the piets may say
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A little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect
…kissed the top of my head
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All memories are bitter, and I prefer to ignore tham (m)
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No, I’m asking you to marry me you little fool (m)
…it’s a pity you have to grow up
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that empty house got on his nerves to such an extent he nearly went off his head. . . He just can’t go on living here alone
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rhododendrons…something bewildering…shocking…suddenness…slaughteous red, lucious and fantastic, unlike any rhododendron
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gaunt…black…hollow…skull’s face…skeleton’s frame (mrs Danvers)
[her hand] deathly cold, lifeless
Hollow eyes never leaving mine
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wore no frown between his eyes, carried no burden on his shoulder. I knew him as a lover
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It’s the most beautiful room in the house, and the windows look down across the lawns to the sea.
(R’s; west wing)
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lit a cigarette…went on reading his paper, having assumed his of living
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when the telephone rang, suddenly, alarmingly, on the desk in front of me, my heart leapt and I started up in terror
I’m afraid you’ve made a mistake, Mrs de Winter has been dead for over a year
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[narrator’s handwriting] indifferent pupil taught in a second-rate school
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I love bathing. As long as the currents are not too strong l. Is the bathing safe in the bay? Nobody answered,
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I’m being like Jasper now, leaning against him. He pats me now and again
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you are so very different from Rebecca (Beatrice)
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The spell of Happy Valley was upon me.
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We ought never to have come back to Manderley…what a fool I was (m, post argument with wife)
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I love you so much
Do you? Do you? (m)
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was Rebecca very beautiful? (questioning destroying narrator)
she was the most beautiful creature I ever saw in my life (frank)
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I can’t help being shy.
I know you can’t, sweetheart. But you don’t make any effort to conquer it (m)
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Who looks you up and down?
Everybody?
What does it matter if they do?
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I suppose that’s why you married me…dull, quiet, inexperienced…never be any gossip
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This all began because I broke the upid in the morning-room
…I believe it was a wedding present. Rebecca knew a lot about china.
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My voice was steady and cool. Not like my heart, thumping inside me. Not like my mind, bitter and resentful.
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‘Je Reviens’ (I come back)
I wondered what colour, green and white perhaps
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He watched me with his sly idiot’s eyes
You won’t put me in the asylum, will you? … you’ve got angel eyes…you’re not like the other one (Ben)
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with the two brushes in his hand “harder, max, harder” she would say, laughing
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Do you think the dead come back to watch the living? (mrs Danvers)
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The locals look upon Manderley as if it was a pavillion on the end of a pier, and expect us to put up a turn for their benefit.
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I glanced hurriedly at the door, like a guilty child (breaking china cupid)
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The picture you copied of the girl in the gallery. It was what Rebecca did at the last fancy dress ball at Manderley. Identical. For one ghastly moment…
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nothing quite so shaming, so degrading as a marriage that had failed. Failed after three months, as mine had done.
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it was like a game to her. Like a game.
She laughed at you [Maxim] like she did the rest.
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Mr de Winter doesn’t love you. . .why don’t you jump
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I belonged there, Manderley belonged to me
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The wonan buired in the crypt is not Rebecca. It’s the body of some unknown woman
I shot Rebecca
Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?
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You don’t love me…I understand. It’s come too late [news of R death]
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When I married her I was told I was the luckiest man in the world
“breeding, brains and beauty”
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she told me things I shall never repeat to a living soul
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I put Manderley first, before anything else. And it does not prosper, than sort of love. They don’t oreach about it in churches.
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You would like an heir, wouldn’t you, for your beloved Manderley (R)
[antagonising about promiscuity]
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I too had killed Rebecca…sunk the boat…I had suffered with him
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He ran his fingers through my hair…it was not like stroking Jasper anymore
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Were relations between you and the late Mrs de Winter perfectly happy?
Will someone take my wife outside? She is going to faint.
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sentimental business about abolishing the death penalty simply encourages crime. He will hang for it, like any other murderer.
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I wonder what you have been doing. Leading Frank Crawley up the garden-path? (Favell)
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All married men with lovely wives are jealous…can’t help playing Othello…why fellows can’t share their women instead of killing them…the more you use her the better she goes
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no matter what tears shed, what sorrows borne, the peace of Manderley could not be broken or the loveliness destroyed…like an enchanted thing
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The sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.
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