"I dreamt I went to Manderley again." (Dumarier 2) is the famous opening line to the classic novel . Right from the beginning Dumaurier builds up the mystery of Manderley by showing a conflict between the way the main characters live now verses how they remember the tragic events of the past. The narrator is an inexperienced young girl who is overwhelmed when she moves into Manderley. The husband, Maxim, is still troubled by the death of his last wife , which happened almost a year before. is "a heroine that we never see in the flesh, but ....