Rebecca

While Rebecca was dreaming and describing what she saw, how do you think her emotions and feelings were? Include evidence from the extract to support your answer

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Consider the quote, Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. This quotation is the opening sentence of Rebecca has become one of its most often-quoted lines. It immediately establishes significant questions about the plot of the novel. What is the nature of this mysterious Manderley, and more, importantly, what happened to it that makes the narrator dream about it repeatedly? The starkness of the sentence suggests a certain nostalgia, almost as if the narrator would return to Manderley if she could but is prevented by some larger force. The novel then becomes an explanation of this one mystery; every event that unfolds contributes to the loss of Manderley and the narrator's preoccupation with it in her dreams.