Blog Post #4- Topic H
Lexi Smith
Rebecca is a very interesting book with its own unique characteristics that make it difficult to truly compare it to anything else you've ever read. Although it is difficult, it is not completely impossible. I can compare Rebecca to In The Time of The Butterflies by Julia Alvarez because this book is very female led and yet there is a fate (Rebecca in this case) that we know has already happened but her life still impacts others as the book goes on. Even though we know Rebecca is dead, she overshadows the lives of everyone in the book and now we know why. Our supposed hero wasn't as glamorous as everyone thought. Even though our narrator says she believes that her husband thinks "about her night and day" (18.72) we later find that she wasn't a big part of his life in a loving way. I can compare this to Things Fall Apart because even though Okonkwo (our supposed hero) was supposed to be this invincible macho man, we saw he had many issues that he struggled with within himself. Rebecca is supposed to be our supposed celebrity girl that everybody knows about, but we later learn that this isn't true and eventually leads to her death. In the past we have read about many interesting dynamic characters with special traits, but these traits can also relate to Rebecca as well.
I never really thought about the connection between In the Time of the Butterflies and Rebecca. Like you said, the story takes place in the past of the characters, and is more or less a memory. This is just like how Dede is reminiscing on her past in In the Time of the Butterflies. There's a sense of foreboding in both books, that does not go away until the event spoken of in the beginning comes to pass. Both books deal heavily with the past.
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