"An appalling tragedy, the papers were full of it of course. They say he never talks about it, never mentions her name. She was drowned you know, in a bay near Manderley..." (DuMaurier 33). Those famous words, written by Daphne DuMaurier in Rebecca, pulls a reader into the world of lies, love, betrayal and romance. Rebecca is a book of romantic suspense between two people where the internal conflict of each character plays a crucial role in the main plot.

Internal conflict is a struggle within a character as they wrestle with challenging moral claims or a difficult decision (Ridl 59). As in Rebecca the narrator struggles with the fact that she is inferior to her boss, Mrs. Van Hopper. The narrator is told she is going to New York with her boss. She does not argue although she does not want to go. The narrator does not feel...