I'm interested in the marriage of Maxim and the narrator. My questions are:
-Why did Max choose her as his new wife?
-Why did she accept?
-Is there love? When? What do the call "love"?
-How is their marriage different from Max's first marriage?
-How do people (Beatrice, Frank, Danvers,...) see their marriage, what are their opinion of that marriage?
-Can we call this relationship a "marriage"?
-How does the knowledge that Max killed Rebecca affect the narrator?
-Is this marriage more successful than the first?
I think, in the second to last line, that you meant to say narrator instead of author (I know this because I wrote that question and accidentally put author instead of narrator). But as a whole I think this is a really interesting idea. It's a really broad idea, (hence abstract) so I think there are a ton of ways you can go from here. It looks like a really good start.
ReplyDeletewhats the difference between the marriage before the narrator finds out that maxim killed rebecca and then after?
ReplyDeleteHow do outside people affect their marriage? Do they want (or see) Maxim and the narrator as happy?
ReplyDeleteWhat I love about MOST of these questions is that they send you right into the book to collect data. You're looking at the marriage itself. Great start. And your questions are right on to begin. GO INTO THE BOOK to answer them. Don't say, "oh, I know what i want to say," and then paraphrase. USE the exact words du Maurier offers you. Without them, you're going to go around in circles. With them, you're going to make some pretty awesome discoveries.
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