The Role Of Jealousy In Jane Austen's Rebecca

The book Rebecca is about jealousy and envy. Maxis lost his wife in a boating accident less than a year before he meets, falls in love, and marries a much younger woman. His new wife moves into the house once shared by himself and his first wife. The housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, does not understand how he could marry such a young woman and quickly becomes jealous. She spends her time comparing Maxim’s new wife to his first wife Rebecca. As Mrs. Danvers gets to know the new Mrs. De Winter, she realizes that she is insecure and begins comparing her Rebecca. The housekeeper begins to dress her in the first wife’s clothes and starts to insinuate she is beneath her. It seems that there is a presence of the first wife in the house. The housekeeper