Identity In Raymond Du Maurier's Rebecca
One of the major themes in the book Rebecca is the narrator's search to establish her identity. Du Maurier establishes this theme from the very beginning by maintaining the narrator’s anonymity, as only Maxim knows the narrator's name. The quest for the narrator to find her true identity is simply the whole subject of the book Rebecca. In the beginning, the narrator seems to be lost in the world. She works as a companion for a rich and ignorant woman. Then she meets the man she will marry named Maxim de Winter, who will forever change the narrator's life forever. Maxim asked the narrator to marry him after only a short time of knowing her. At first she hesitates to say yes because she does not know Maxim or anything about him. After