Characters
Themes
Details
Quotations I
Quotations II
100
Woman with no name who meets her husband in Monte Carlo.
The Narrator (Mrs. de Winter)
100
The narrator's constant descriptions of Mrs. Danvers as "skeletal" and "deathly" emphasizes which theme of the novel?
Death
100
The residence of the narrator and the setting of most of the novel.
Manderley
100
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
Narrator
100
"Woof!"
Jasper
200
This character suggests Caroline de Winter as the inspiration for the narrator's ball gown.
Mrs. Danvers
200
The narrator's constant competition with Rebecca even though the latter is dead (and, according to the narrator, BECAUSE she is dead) emphasizes which theme of the novel?
Jealousy
200
The sea is visible only from where in the house?
Rebecca's Room/The West Wing
200
"Most girls would give their eyes for a chance to see Monte!"
Mrs. van Hopper
200
"I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool."
Maxim de Winter
300
This character is associated with azaleas.
Rebecca
300
Maxim loves the narrator for her childishness and innocence, saying that she is able to help him "[blot] out the past." Which theme of the novel does this emphasize?
Redemption
300
What function did the West Wing serve before it was closed off?
It was where Rebecca and Maxim's bedrooms were.
300
"It's you who ought to be dead, not Mrs. de Winter."
Mrs. Danvers
300
"It would give you the biggest thrill of your life, wouldn't it, Max, to watch my son grow bigger day by day, and to know that when you died, all this would be his?"
Rebecca de Winter
400
This character is constantly compared to a fifteenth-century painting by the narrator at the beginning of the novel to show how mysterious she finds him.
Maxim de Winter
400
The final juxtaposition between the narrator and Rebecca (and how Maxim truly feels towards both) plays on which theme of the novel?
Love vs. Hate
400
Which structure burns down in the novel?
Manderley
400
"Tact was never my strong point, as Maxim will tell you. And, as I told you before, you're not a bit what I expected...You see, you are so very different from Rebecca."
Beatrice Lacy
400
"Tall and dark she was. She gave you the feeling of a snake. I seen her here with me own eyes. By night she'd come."
Ben
500
The very bestest chonky doggo in all of fiction.
Jasper!
500
The fact that the narrator has no name (and even forgets the only one we DO know when she answers the phone and says that Mrs. de Winter is dead) emphasizes which theme of the novel?
Identity
500
How has Mrs. Danvers treated Rebecca's room?
She has kept it exactly as it was the day Rebecca died.
500
"We were brought up together... Always tremendous pals. Liked the same things, the same people. Laughed at the same jokes. I suppose I was fonder of Rebecca than anyone else in the world. And she was fond of me. All this has been a bloody shock."
Jack Favell
500
"I'm a bachelor, I don't know much about women, I lead a quiet sort of life down here at Manderley as you know, but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so -- modesty -- are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world."
Frank Crawley