The book Rebecca is about jealousy. Maxis lost his wife in a boating accident about a year before he met Rebecca. Once he meets, falls in love, and marries Rebecca, she moves into the house that he shared with his first wife. The housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, does not understand how he could marry such a young woman and quickly becomes jealous. She spends her time comparing Rebecca to the Maxim’s first wife. As she gets to know Rebecca, she realizes that she is very insecure and begins comparing her to the first Mrs. de Winter. The housekeeper begins to dress Rebecca in the first wife’s clothes and starts to make her feel beneath her. It seems that there is a presence of the first wife in the house. The housekeeper uses Rebecca’s insecurities