Offending

A point that I had wanted to make in class was my reaction to what happens in chapter 14 (the night of Rebecca's death/disappearance) but more specifically on pages 173-174. I think that a part of Rebecca's death happened or the fact that she was not found for two months and no one went looking for her on that night is that fact that all these characters don't want to offend one another, and that why they acted how they did. If someone, say Mrs. Danvers, were to just step out of her given role, it would have been different. In this book, so many other bound rues have been crossed already but here they were not able to step out of their roles. How much did they really love her in those moments that they were making up excuses of where she was and what she was doing but didn't exert the energy just to check on her