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wonder if there is something that shows. Yes, when Maxim tells I that he shoots Rebecca, readers may stop again to think over.The poem appears in the front of the novel is a significant indication. The volume was well worn, well thumbed, falling open automatically at what must be a much-frequented page. [4](P36) Why does Maxim always read this page of the poetry? What is its importance? Daphne is a careful and smart designer. She wouldnt write words wastefully. Every word leads to suspense.I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways of my own mind; and in the midst of tears I hid from Him; and under running laughter. Up vistaed slopes I sped And shot, precipited Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears, From those strong feet that followed, followed after. [4](P36)Maxim takes along this poetry and reads this page time to time. Is he fleeing something? What is he hiding from on earth? In the latter chapters, Mrs. Danvers mentions about Rebeccas laughs. Say, when Rebecca fights with her cousin and wins. She cracks her whip over his head and down he comes, head-over heels, cursing and laughing.So was everybody who knew her. She didnt care. She only laughed. I shall live as I please, Danny [4](256)Rebecca makes men love her but she just laughs and doesnt care them at all. She wont love anything, except herself. Rebeccas laughs shade Maxim always, they are curse to Maxim. After shooting Rebecca, he is living with fear to be found out. Rebecca sits on the hills above Monte Carlo, laughing, tearing a flower to bits in her hands, after a bargain with her husband. She laughs at her husbands care about his Manderley. She laughs at his sacrifice on pride, honor, personal feelings, every quality about fame. After her bargain with Maxim, she laughs like the devil.She threw back her head and laughed.[4](P291) Because she knows that Maxim can’t prove anything against her, she has got a big triumph.She waited a minute, rocking on her heels, and then she lit a cigarette and went and stood by the window. She began to laugh. She went on laughing, I thought she would never stop. [4](P292)Even when she is shot by Maxim, she is still smiling. I fired at her heart. The bullet passed right through. She did not fall at once. She stood there, looking at me, that slow smile on her face, her eyes wide open... Maxim hasnt realized this meaning of the smile until (in the end of the novel) they get files from the doctor that Rebecca has got a cancer before she dies. She foresees the whole thing. So she lies to Maxim on purpose. It is the last supreme bluff. She wants to be killed by Maxim that means to destroy him, also. That is why she laughs. That is why she stands there laughing when she dies. What a wicked and cunning laugh it is!As in the poem, Maxim lives under Rebeccas damn laughs. All this strained shapes answers the second suspense: Maxim can’t bear any longer and kills Rebecca. It is neither an accident nor a suicide....And in the daytime, Frith would hear him (Maxim) in the library pacing up and down. Up and down, up and down.[4](P180) In addition, Maxim doesnt want to go to the beach where the white cottage stands. He says impatiently, I never go near the bloody place, or that Goddamned cottage. And if you had my memories you would not want to go there either, or talk about it, or even think about it. [4](P122) Maxi