In the novel Rebecca, do the de Winters or Rebecca win?
Answer It would be difficult to consider Mr. and Mrs. De Winter in any way victorious by the time Du Maurier’s novel comes to a close. Rebecca has achieved things that many of us could only imagine; namely, she selected her own manner of death (purposely angering her husband by hinting another man had impregnated her, which in turn compelled Maxim to murder her out of anger, thus saving her from a long and drawn out battle with cancer), and also achieved a quite impressive immortality in that her memory haunts the Manderley estate. The fact that we readers never even learn the name of the second Mrs. De Winter suggests that Rebecca herself is of paramount importance in the novel.
