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As at least one critic has pointed out, du Maurier is at her best when writing in first person. My Cousin Rachel (1951) is told from the point of view of Philip Ashley and Rebecca from the point of view of the second wife. Rebecca is remarkable because the reader never learns the narrator's name. This deliberate omission serves to emphasize the colorless personality the second wife appears to have and, by contrast, emphasizes the powerful personality of her predecessor, who is named.
Du Maurier has written that she had meant to begin Rebecca with the narrator meeting Maxim, then...
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