Rebecca TImeline of events in Chp. 14-15

By kawingwai

  • CHP. 14: Mrs. Danvers shows Rebecca's room

    "You wanted to see the room."
    "Now that you are here, let me show you everything," she said, her voice ingratiating and sweet as honey, horrible, false.
    (Pg. 189) Mrs. Danvers is forcefully trying to show the narrator Rebecca's room and her possessions that once belonged to her. "I did everything for her, she said, taking my arm again, leading me to the dressing gown and slippers."

  • CHP.14: Mrs. Danvers

    "Then I heard a step behind me and turning around I saw Mrs. Danvers. I shall never forget the expression on her face.Triumphant, gloating, excited in a strange unhealthy way. I felt very frightened." (pg. 188) Mrs. Danvers is seen as a ghostly and mysterious figure as she turns up unexpectedly whenenver the narrator is alone and with silence. "And her voice was low and intimate, a voice I hated and feared."

  • CHP. 14: The narrator goes into Rebecca's room

    "She was dead. She had been dead now for a year. She lay buried in the crypt of the church with all the other dead de Winters." (pg. 186)

  • CHP. 14: Mr.s Danvers & the narrator

    Mrs. Danvers is talking to the narrator and recalls how Rebecca died. She makes the narrator feel uncomfortable and gives an uneasy feeling. "Do you think she can see us, talking to one another now?"
    "Do you think the dead come back and watch the living?"
    (Pg. 194)
    " Sometimes I wonder if she comes back here to Manderley and watches you and Mr. de Winter together." (Pg. 195)

  • CHP 15: Visit to Grandma's

    Beatrice invites Mrs. de Winter to have lunch with Maxim's grandmother. The narrator agrees as she is trying to forget about yesterday's encounter with Mrs. Danvers.
    "It's time you met the old lady, you know." (Pg. 197) Mrs Danvers is seen upon as being an 'Old witch' which was a character in a childhood game that the narrator us
    "I was playing 'Old with' with Mrs. Danvers."

  • CHP 15: Grandma's tantrum

    The grandmother, whose old age is clearly getting to her, says she doesn't know who Mrs. de Winter is. She starts asking for Rebecca, saying how much she likes her.
    "Who are you, my dear, I haven't seen you before? I don't know your face."
    "Why did not Maxim come and bring Rebecca?" ( Pg. 208 + 209) Beatrice then apologizes profusely. "I was a fool not to expect something like this." (Pg. 210)

  • CHP. 15: Maxim's return

    When Mrs. de Winter arrives back to Manderley, Maxim is already there, angrily shouting at Mrs. Danvers as she had invited Jack Favell ( Rebecca's cosuin) into the house. Maxim doesn't like him at all. "You can write and tell him from me to keep away from Manderley in future." (pg. 212)