these are the recommendations she gave me on my last prompt, please follow these guidelines, there are citations already included.
Carson, I think writing about obsession in Rebecca is a fine topic. But I think you are importing a LOT of assumptions about character, development, how believable a gothic tale is supposed to be, etc that really mucks up what you might write about. I think you need a basic structure here that can ground your interpretation a bit more fully. Start with a basic definition of a “gothic” novel or tale (highlighting, mystery, suspense, the supernatural, whatever you will later use) and then employ a complicating structure, in which you move from expectation to actuality. So here, _Rebecca_ SEEMS to be a mystery story about a haunting woman BUT, as you will show, reveals a complex array of obsessions with the dead Rebecca. Your work might be showing 3 different “Rebecca”‘s in the novel (and in the imagination of three different characters and how those three R’s work with/against each other to show_____________. Filling in that blank with a POINT, not the plot, will be the trick.
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