1) I found it fitting in a way and good in a way (team Maxim) that Rebecca was not physically able to have children (page 373) because that makes team Max +1 and gives him power over her. The whole situation we read about earlier in the book of the potential of Rebecca having a child that was not Max's was never even possible. This now makes me think that in the scene before Rebecca is shot, she said that to sort of mess with Maxim because she was the only one that knew the real truth.
2) The fact that Rebecca used a false name when seeing Dr. Baker could maybe signify that a tiny part of her did want to protect Manderlay and she did not want anyone to recognize her name. The de Winter's are practically famous, and this would have started a whole bunch more gossip that Rebecca was already stirring up. So maybe, just maybe, she had a tiny heart?
3) The End..... no Rebecca= no Manderlay
The narrator was describing all the things she was going to do when she got back, which sounded an awfully lot like Rebecca's qualities, (upholding the house, respect from the staff) but we have been shown there can never be another Mrs. de Winter because Manderlay won't allow it. Without Manderlay, all of this is irrelevant and all of these characters are no longer anything! Was proving Max innocent all for nothing?
I think this brings up the point/question that is asked a lot in literature. Is it the end result or the journey that makes the book? Because if we just looked at events that actually happened in the entire book. Rebecca' s body gets found and its ruled a suicide. It's the journey that really matters. It shows the narrators gain of control over the course of the book and in the end, take over Rebecca's personality. I don't think Maxim's innocence had as much significance in the grand scheme of things as much as the toll it took on him to prove his "innoncence". The narrator could really take over and finally get the confidence she has desperately wanted since the moment she got to Manderley.
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