Rebecca

Temporarily, I am dropping Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, the language is hard to understand and I, personally, do not feel like spending too much interpretting it, therefore, I picked out a new book this week: Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
Rebecca is about a heroine--who remains nameless--who lives in Europe with her husband, Maxim de Winter, traveling from hotel to hotel, remembering of a beautiful home called Manderley, which, we learn, has been destroyed by a fire. The story begins with her memories of how she and Maxim first met, in Monte Carlo, years before. During that time, she was traveling along with Mrs. Van Hopper, whose very air is gossip, and with her help, she meets Maxim de Winter. By the way he greets her, I feel some static in the air, and possibly some unexpected emotions. During this meeting, the narrator is still a fresh-out-of-school girl: she is young, inexperienced, and pretty unexposed to the world. You feel in her a certain ambition to get away from the lifestyle and time she lives in. A time where women were "indoor" people and considered slightly inferior to men. Through her thoughts you could see her yearning for something better : " I sighed, and turned away from the window. The sun was so full of promise, and the sea was whipped white with a merry wind."(22) 
Then again, what she's yearning for isn't just for a better life, but maybe for happiness. Possibly Mr. de Winter will play a role in making this come true!