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What made Danvers snap?

posted 14 years ago by LadyN1
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Was it the revelation that Rebecca had cancer?
The fact Rebecca never told her?
Or the fact the Second Mrs De Winter had``won`` because she no longer felt in Rebecca's shadow or skeptical of Max's feelings?

What do you guys think specifically acted as a trigger to cause Mrs Daners to lose it and set Manderly on fire?

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[–] louiseculmer 9 years ago

it was finding out that there was a motive for rebecca's suicide, and that therefore maxim was going to get away with it, She had hoped to see him hang.