REBECCA INGLES



Resumen breve, idea general
La trama nos relata como una joven y tímida dama de compañía que se encuentra trabajando en Montecarlo conoce al viudo Maximiliam de Winter, un aristócrata guapo y acaudalado cuya esposa, Rebeca, ha muerto recientemente en un trágico accidente marítimo mientras guiaba su velero durante una tormenta. Los dos se enamoran y cuando “Maxim” le pide que se case con ella,ésta acepta sin dudarlo. Tras la boda la pareja se traslada a la mansión Manderley, el hogar de los Winter, pero la felicidad inicial se verá pronto perturbada por el obsesivo y siempre presente recuerdo de Rebeca, al parecer una mujer brillante y a la que todos en esa casa parecían adorar, en especial la señora Danvers, la siniestra y misteriosa ama de llaves. Esta situación  se convertirá en unaobsesión para la nueva señora Winter, que se verá acomplejada y dominada por las sombras de una mujer a la que nunca conoció
WIKI PEDIA
Tras enviudar por primera vez, Maxim de Winter viaja hasta [Montecarlo] para olvidar su pasado. Allí se casa con una mujer más joven que él y, tras la luna de miel, regresan a la mansión de campo de los Winter: Manderley. Todo es perfecto hasta que la memoria dela fallecida Rebecca hace mella en el matrimonio.
RESUMEN EN INGLES
Rebecca's narrative takes the form of a flashback. The heroine, who remains nameless, lives in Europe with her husband, Maxim de Winter, traveling from hotel to hotel, harboring memories of a beautiful home called Manderley, which, we learn, has been destroyed by fire. The story begins with her memories of how she and Maximfirst met, in Monte Carlo, years before.
In her flashback, the heroine is working as the young traveling companion to a wealthy American named Mrs. Van Hopper. In her flashback, Maxim is staying at the same hotel as the heroine and her employer, and after knowing the heroine for only a few weeks, he proposes marriage. She accepts, and he marries her and takes her back to his ancestral estate ofManderley. But a dark cloud hangs over their marriage: Maxim's first wife, Rebecca, drowned in a cove near Manderley the previous year, and her ghost haunts the newlyweds' home. Rebecca's devoted



housekeeper, the sinister Mrs. Danvers, is still in charge of Manderley, and she frightens and intimidates her new mistress.
Despite the encouragement of the house overseer, Frank Crawley, and Maxim'ssister, Beatrice, the heroine struggles in her new life at Manderley. She feels that she can never compare favorably to Rebecca, who was beautiful, talented, and brilliant--or so everyone says--and soon she feels that Maxim is still in love with his dead wife.
Manderley traditionally hosts a costume ball each year, and it is soon time for the gala to take place. Swept up in the preparations, theheroine's spirits begin to revive. But the ball ends in disaster: on Mrs. Danvers's suggestion she wears a costume that, it turns out, is the same dress that Rebecca wore at the last ball. Upon seeing the heroine, Maxim is horrified, and the heroine becomes convinced that he will never love her, that he is still devoted to Rebecca. The following day, Mrs. Danvers almost convinces her to kill herself,and she only breaks away from the old woman's spell when rockets go off over the cove, signaling that a ship has run aground. When divers swim near the grounded ship, they find the wreckage of Rebecca's sailboat, with Rebecca's dead body in the hold. This discovery prompts Maxim to tell the heroine the truth: Rebecca was a malevolent, wicked woman, who lived a secret life and carried on multipleaffairs, including one with her cousin, Jack Favell. On the night of her death, Maxim had demanded a divorce, and she had refused, and told him that she was pregnant with Favell's child. Furious, he seized a gun and shot her, and then sailed out to the harbor in Rebecca's boat and sank it, with the body stowed safely inside.
This revelation restores the heroine's marriage, and enables her to...