Symbolism In Daphne Dumaurier's Rebecca

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The novel Rebecca, by Daphne DuMaurier, begins its storyline with a dream. This dream is a story told in the first-person view of the narrator visiting a place called Manderley. Although this is a short chapter, it contains a large amount of symbolism. Objects such as the flowers are described in the scene, the estate, and even the narrator’s lack of personal description symbolize essential parts of the following story. Overall, the first chapter of this novel is of great importance to the rest of the story due to it being packed with symbolism. The first symbolic representation in this chapter is the flowers. “The rhododendrons stood fifty feet high, twisted and entwined with bracken, and they had entered into alien marriage with a host of