Dealing with the changes

~Topic B~

Blog Post 4

5-18-15

By: Camden Wilkins

In the final chapters of our book, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, we see a huge change in the main character. The change occurs when her husband Maxim tells her that he was the one who murdered Rebecca, and is afraid that the people of the town will find out about his deed. Maxim becomes very paranoid. Our main character really starts showing a compassion that we do not quite see up until this point, and she comforts him. This whole time, Maxim is depressed and very paranoid for his own safety. They decide that they must leave before anything bad happens, in this we see the the main character truly does have a new found sense of compassion, and demonstrates this by agreeing to run away from the life she has just gotten used to, and go with Maxim. She hinted at a physical love before this in earlier chapters, but never has she demonstrated the love that she shows to Maxim now.  When Maxim and the main character run away with each other, it is like they are leaving so much behind, but at the same time, gaining an entirely new place in their relationship with each other, "kissing as if [they] had never kissed before (348)." In fact, this new love for each other is symbolized in the book as Manderly burns down, showing an end to the way things used to be, Maxim almost ignoring the main character, and the main character still a shy young girl. Maxim and the main character develop such new personalities that they start showing intimacy with each other, instead of being in the same room, but two different worlds.