The reader never finds out the name or age of the protagonist in Daphne du Maurier's REBECCA, which is why I chose her for the letter X. Most fans think of her as eighteen or so, so I'm rolling with it for my YA girl characters. I love this book because of the mixed reactions readers get toward our nameless narrator, her secretive husband Maxim, and the long dead but ever present in our narrator's mind Rebecca--Max's first wife. Even their home, Manderley, is a complex character itself. It is romantic suspense at its finest and a book I never get tired of discussing.
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
Do you like the second Mrs. de Winter? Tell me some of your favorite X characters.
5 comments:
Clever use of X, Ilima! :)
Nice X character.
Mine is a given. X-men. Wolverine. The End.
I picked X-Men as well.
This is great. I thought she was 21, since in that day and time you had to be at least 21 to marry without parental permission.
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