Wendy Anderson answers “I would really like to know from the...”

Debashmita asked this question about Rebecca:

I would really like to know from the readers of this book (Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier), what do you think of the narrator of the book? Where do you think she went wrong or should have acted otherwise?

Wendy Anderson The narrator of the book was truly a victim of Max De Winter. Aside from that I have little patience with the woman. However, that aside -- I was all …moreThe narrator of the book was truly a victim of Max De Winter. Aside from that I have little patience with the woman. However, that aside -- I was all about Rebecca! She is the heroine for me. Probably because I am more like Rebecca - If I put myself in the narrator's shoes, the first thing I would have done after sitting in the morning room at the desk would have been to snatch up the house phone to buzz that old bat "Danny" and give her instructions to remove EVERYTHING that belonged from Rebecca and pack it up. EVERYTHING. If old Danny had given me one moment of trouble, I would have given her the sack right there and then. Next I would have studied what was good about Manderly and then started about making it my own. In otherwords, the narrator should have grown a set immediately.(less)

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