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Frank Crawley
Maxim de Winter’s energetic, talkative sister, Beatrice Lacy is an important foil to the narrator. She’s entirely comfortable among wealthy, aristocratic people, and she’s never shy about expressing her opinion. Surprisingly, Beatrice is often a loyal friend to the narrator, ensuring that she’s not completely humiliated at the summer costume party. In the end, Beatrice is perhaps the most enviable character in the novel. She has all the advantages of a wealthy lifestyle (money, power, luxury) without any of the emotional baggage and scandal that accompanies the other wealthy characters, like her brother.
Beatrice Lacy Quotes in Rebecca
The Rebecca quotes below are all either spoken by Beatrice Lacy or refer to Beatrice Lacy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 9
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“You see,” she said, snapping the top, and walking down the stairs, “you are so very different from Rebecca.”
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Chapter 18
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That was why I had come down last night in my blue dress and had not stayed hidden in my room. There was nothing brave or fine about it, it was a wretched tribute to convention. I had not come down for Maxim's sake, or Beatrice's, for the sake of Manderley. I had come down because I did not want the people at the ball to think I had quarreled with Maxim. I didn't want them to go home and say, “Of course you know they don't get on. I hear he's not at all happy.” I had come for my own sake, my own poor personal pride.
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Beatrice Lacy Quotes in Rebecca
The Rebecca quotes below are all either spoken by Beatrice Lacy or refer to Beatrice Lacy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 9
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“You see,” she said, snapping the top, and walking down the stairs, “you are so very different from Rebecca.”
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Chapter 18
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That was why I had come down last night in my blue dress and had not stayed hidden in my room. There was nothing brave or fine about it, it was a wretched tribute to convention. I had not come down for Maxim's sake, or Beatrice's, for the sake of Manderley. I had come down because I did not want the people at the ball to think I had quarreled with Maxim. I didn't want them to go home and say, “Of course you know they don't get on. I hear he's not at all happy.” I had come for my own sake, my own poor personal pride.
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