Compare Maxim's relationships with his first and second wives

      Maxim de Winter met her second wife in Monte Carlo, where she was working as a companion of one American women called Mrs Van Hopper. In one evening when Mrs Van Hopper and Maxim were going to have a coffee he insisted the young woman to join them. He started to took her out and it didn't take very long when they got married and they moved to Manderley- Maxim's home. Newly married couple, especially the second Mrs de Winter, hoped to get happy there.

      But unfortunately there was a dark shadow of Maxim's first wife over them. No matter what she tried to do or how hard she tried- there was always something that had to remind Rebecca. People also told her how different she was from Rebecca who was sociable, intelligent and incredibly beautiful woman. But she, Maxim's second wife, was young, inexperienced and quiet woman. She felt that her husband still loved Rebecca and that it will always affect their marriage. But she was completely wrong...After one discussion with her husband, Maxim admitted that he had never loved Rebecca and that she had been cruel, smart and he hasn't seen anyone that evil. He had always known almost all of her dark secrets, but he was together with her because Rebecca knew how do take care of Manderley and Maxim loved this place too much. He had never loved Rebecca and he even knew that Rebecca had affairs with other men at the time of their marriage. It didn't bother him as long as she didn't take her men to Manderley. Maxim also told her second wife that Rebecca actually wasn't drowned as everybody thought she had died, but Maxim himself killed her. And he didn't regret it. On that night Rebecca went too far with her "jokes" and Maxim lost his temper and shoot her and made it look like an accident. But during the later inquiry, when came out that the holes in the ship's bottom weren't made by rocks, and Mr Favell accused Mr de Winter killing his wife, and also came out that Rebecca had been seriously ill. Mrs Danvers, Rebecca's servant and friend, told that if she were able to choose how do die, she'd want it to be fast and painless. Then Maxim realised that Rebecca actually wanted him to murder her. For conclusion I'd say that Maxim and Rebecca seemed to live a perfect and happy life, but it was everything else beside's that. 

      The marriage between Maxim and her second wife was completely different. I think that there was love between them. When they were in Mone Carlo everything was alright. After arriving at Manderley things changed. At first she just felt Rebecca's shadow everywhere and thought that Maxim still loved her. When Mrs de Winter found out that Maxim was a murderer and when the inquiry for Rebecca de Winter's sunken boat was started she was beside him. She hoped it will end as well as possible for her husband. Maxim wasn't sure if young Mrs de Winter would handle all of it, but she did and very well. She said that she loves him. And she certainly did. So this relationships was different from the first one. Different like a night and a day. But although everything ended well for Maxim de Winter, because Mr Favell couldn't prove that Maxim killed Rebecca, and he went back to Manderley with young Mrs de Winter, things weren't and wouldn't be the same. But no matter what, Mrs de Winter wanted to be with Maxim and have a family with him and what's even more important- she loved him.

"Rebecca". Daphne du Maurier

      The first book that I've read this school year is "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier. It's published by Pearson Education Limited in association with Penguin Books Ltd. This year I chose a higher reading level- upper-intermediate. So that book has 2300 words. Book itself has 101 pages.
      This book is about de Winter's- Maxim and her new lovely wife (whose name isn't mentioned in the book). There's always a dark shadow of Maxim's dead first wife Rebecca on them and it's on their way in order to live happily. But then Rebecca's sunken boat will be found and everything keeps going even more worse, especially for new Mrs de Winter, as new fact's comes forth about Rebecca's death. As her husband says to her: "I can't forget what it has done to you. It's gone for ever, that funny, young, lost look that I loved.""...It's gone, in twenty-four hours. You are so much older..."
      I enjoyed reading it. It was very interesting, mysterious and catching book. I'd recommend it to everyone. Almost every page of it had something different and interesting about the whole story. The reading level was "new" to me, too. It wasn't as easy as reading books on intermediate level, it was more challenging I think, but not difficult. It's my level of reading at the moment I think.