Blog Post #5

Blog Post #5 Prompt B

Lexi Smith

Lady (our narrator) has changed significantly throughout the book. It is made evident from the very beginning that she is  "so different from Rebecca" (Du Maurier 98) and we can see from evidence provided by the characters that she is indeed extremely different from Rebecca. Although this holds true throughout most of the book, towards the end she becomes a bit more like Rebecca. She is more confident with herself at the end, and she is much less naive to everything that goes on. In the beginning of the book she is always anxious that she cannot fill Rebecca's shoes and this makes her very insecure. Although she feels like Rebecca overshadows her life and everything that she does, at the end of the book she learns that it is a different kind of overshadowing that makes her growth very significant. At the end of the book she realizes that Rebecca is indeed not who she thought she was and this makes her much more confident with herself. She learns a huge secret that changes her perspective on everything. Learning that Maxim killed Rebecca because of everything that she did to him teaches her that Rebecca wasn't this perfect figure that she needed to live up to, but in actuality exactly what Maxim needed (the opposite of Rebecca).  In the end she learns that it is indeed a good thing that she is so different from Rebecca.