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Mrs De Winter finally decides she wants to be treated like an adult by attempting to equal their
power in the marriage and calling out his behaviour towards her. Throughout the novel Maxim
suggests that she should dress up in Alice in Wonderland using her “hair-ribbon” to dress up like her.
Du Maurier uses this as a metaphor saying that all she needs to do is put on a hair ribbon and she
looks like Alice but really Mrs De Winter already acts lost and trapped in a new world with no idea
whats going on around her. Promptly after that she states “You’re playing with me all the time, just
as if I was a silly little girl.” This quote demonstrates her realisation and she demands an end to this.
Mrs De Winter is soon shut down by her husband in the quote ‘Get on with your peach and don’t
talk with your mouth full.” Yet another example of him talking to her as if he was educating an infant.
This is what lead to Mrs De Winter to organise a costume to ‘impress’ Maxim in an attempt to
become a new person, this is demonstrated throughout the ball scene. Mrs De Winter attempted to
regain power and step into the role of a wealthy wife, influenced by Rebecca, yet is constantly
fighting her husbands talk, one such spoken to an infant.