Haunting (Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier)

Member Name: mcader

Product:	Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Date:	26/01/09 (84 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: classic mood piece

Disadvantages: period piece

The enigma of the dark character of Rebecca pervades this rich story of love in a large house with an overbearing past....

Rebecca's dark character it seems, catches up with the narrator, a helpless, inexperienced woman of the times, caught up in the attraction to an older man. This dynamic is a frustrating problem until the faults of the man finally emerge and - like Rochester in Jane Eyre - he is revealed to be as helpless as she.

It is a now-famous tale told deftly, but is is also a period piece, with victims of its time, who depend totally upon one other. Also, it is a clever 'real-life' traditional ghost story, where no actual ghost needs obviously to appear, and yet it is as haunting....In fact it is especially so, with reference to universal independence and freedom. And always Manderley, the great house in South West England, the third character, the structure of life going on upon the turbulence of emotion.

Summary: Classic emotional tale of perspective and a struggle for joy