Rebecca is the deceased wife of Maxim De Winter. After Rebecca died, there are still females in Maxim’s life, such as his housekeeper and sister. They all take a significant toll on the new Mrs. De Winter when she moves into the house. Daphne Du Maurier uses female relationships in Rebecca to represent the insignificance of the new Mrs. De Winter by showing the love Mrs. Danvers had for Rebecca, the overwhelming feeling of jealously and envy that was present between Beatrice and Rebecca and how Rebecca’s old lifestyle taunts Mrs. De Winter every day. Manderley was the house that had been passed down to Maxim De Winter from his parents. He was the oldest son and, therefore, he got this house. This was a dream house for the new Mrs. De Winter. She had bought postcards with pictures of Manderley on it before and it was every girl’s fantasy to live in a house just like this one. The only problem with this house is that it was closely connected with Rebecca, Maxim’s deceased wife. Everything in Manderley had once been touched by Rebecca, which made it a “store house” of old memories from her. Everyone who worked in Manderley had worked there when Rebecca was still alive and they all knew her and her daily routine very well (Du Maurier 72). In the novel, this taunts the new Mrs. De Winter making her feel like she has expectations to live up to and had to act and do things just like Rebecca did. The ghost of Rebecca is created by the characters in the novel and they can all feel her presence in the house even though she is not physically there (Thomason 256). Mrs. De Winter was traveling the world with Mrs. Van Hopper. She was a loud American snob who was traveling the world. She is in her fifties and is short and overweight. She is always interested in meeting famous people and getting to know them. Mrs. Van Hopper will go out of her way to find them and start conversation with them; she does this to make herself feel important. She makes the narrator feel insignificant right from the beginning of the novel by making her feel like she is a servant to her and that she is not smart enough or of a high enough class to talk to Maxim De Winter when they meet for the first time (Du Maurier 14). Maxim De Winter is the wealthy, handsome and the proud owner of Manderley. Maxim De Winter and the narrator meet when they are in Monte Carlo, France. The narrator is there accompanying Mrs. Van Hopper and Maxim De Winter is their grieving his wife’s passing. When Mrs. Van Hopper falls sick and Maxim wants to get to know the narrator better, this is the perfect opportunity for them. They sneak around together for a few days together while Mrs. Van Hopper is bedridden. This time they spend together becomes very special for the both of them. They each look forward to it every day and they quickly fall in love with each other (Du Maurier 16). When Mrs. Van Hopper finally gets well she decides that it time to move on and she decides that their time in Monte Carlo is over. Our narrator is distraught because she knows her job requires her to go with Mrs. Van Hopper, but she also knows after she leaves Monte Carlo she may never see Maxim again. When she is about to leave with Mrs. Van Hopper, she goes to say her last goodbye to Maxim and he asks her to come with him back to Manderley. She is confused about why he wants her to come, at first she gets upset because she thinks he only wants her to come along to be his new servant but to her surprise he wants to marry her, ‘’’No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool’’’ (Du Maurier 52). She is shocked and asks him if this is really serious. She wonders if he could really love her after this short amount of time. Our narrator doesn’t have a doubt in her mind that she loves him, ‘’’I do love you; I love you dreadfully. You've made me very unhappy and I've been crying all night because I thought I should never see you again”’ (Du Maurier 54). When she tells Mrs. Van Hopper about the news she is not as happy as the future Mrs. De Winter is. Mrs. Van Hopper puts many doubts in her head about how he doesn’t really love her and she isn’t suited for that lifestyle but she decides to accept his proposal and go with him anyway. After the way Mrs. Van Hopper has treated her for all of this time, she realizes that what she is telling her may not be what she really thinks but just feelings of jealously and disgust that Maxim fell in love