I don't know what emotion to feel about the ending. I don't think I really do feel one towards the ending itself. It seemed like such a huge build up for that. Of course the ending result is a big deal, the author makes it seem like it's not a big deal. While the narrator was coming in and out of sleep you could for some reason feel the tension rising in the book and then it was just over. I don't know.
I've also come to the conclusion that I still hate Maxim. Actually I don't think there is anyone in this book that I enjoyed even a little bit. Anyways, i'm rather curious as to if he had known that instead of being pregnant, she in fact had cancer, if he still would have killed her..
Lastly, Rebecca never fails to win against Maxim even this far after her death. Without Rebecca, there is no Manderley. Originally, it was in the sense that without her Manderley would be unknown and just another home. But now that physically Rebecca truly is gone, so is Manderley.
In a very weird sense I think that the ending sort of provided "closure" but maybe that was only for me. We could feel our narrator clinging (desperately) on to better days ahead which was clinging on to something that wasn't really there so that's why I got the feeling of closure.
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