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Summary The chapter begins with the De Winter’s leaving the showers of London moving directly, to their arrival, at Manderley. A huge and beautiful manor house set in the coastal valley in England. The journey from London to Manderley was long. They drove through the middle of a huge forest of the “the blood red rhododendron in bloom”. When she arrived to the main gate of the house, it’s seemed to her she …

…for a dead woman. And though Mrs. Danvers may look skeleton-like and frail, her powers overcome physical reality, just as Rebecca is able to make use of her influence at Manderley despite her very death. It is thus Rebecca, and not Mrs. De Winter, who is the true mistress of Manderley; and as such she seeks to deny Mrs. De Winter her identity to ensure that her shadow forever eclipse this new Mrs. de Winter.