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Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier, the Narrator, and Max

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allows us to see truth. Throughout the story we see the character of Max as a man who is aloof and perhaps cold. We see the character of the narrator  as a demure and loyal woman who is deeply in love with Max but confused and worried about Rebecca, his previous wife. She is unable to feel as though she  is worthy of having taken Rebeccas place and so she embarks on a mystery where she tries to uncover who this Rebecca was. In the end we see Max as  a clear victim of the past, thus becoming a femme fatale, and this was all made possible through the narrators detective work. With that in mind the following paper examines  how Max is a femme fatale and the narrator is a detective. Max As mentioned, we first see Max as a very aloof man. He does not seem  to truly care about his new wife, and is often distracted and moving about with his own life. We wonder why he ever married the narrator because we believe him  incapable of affection. This becomes even more powerfully felt through the narrator who wants to do all she can to make the marriage work. She loves him and longs for  him to love her. Through her desperation we see Max as an even more unlikable character. However, when the truth comes out in the end we see that Max has  been incredibly troubled, and perhaps afraid to ever love his new wife. He was treated horribly by Rebecca and she cheated on him at perhaps every given opportunity. Max tells  his new wife that, "She was vicious, damnable, rotten through and through ... Rebecca was incapable of love, of tenderness, of decency. She was not even normal" (DuMaurier 271). When