A winding driveway leads through a misty forest dense with red rhododendrons to a grand, gothic-style mansion.

Create a realistic image of the Manderley Mansion from the book Rebecca using the descriptions that follow... When the narrator arrives at Manderley, she describes the driveway: “As the drive descended to the valley so the trees came in upon us, great beeches with lovely smooth white stems, lifting their myriad branches to one another, [...] coming close [so close to us]. On we went, over the little bridge that spanned a narrow stream, and still this drive that was no drive twisted and turned like an enchanted ribbon through the dark and silent woods, penetrating out even deeper to the very heart surely of the forest itself” (Du Maurier 72). The long and ominous driveway described above had a big impact on my drawing because it inspired the long, steep, and dark driveway surrounded and strangled by trees in my drawing. This part of it helps to give the drawing a more unsettling gothic vibe. The narrator also describes the flowers after the driveway: “A clearing in the dark drive ahead, and a patch of sky, and in a moment the dark trees had thinned, the nameless shrubs had disappeared, and on either side of us was a wall of color, blood-red, reaching far above our heads. We were amongst the rhododendrons. [...] their Crimson faces, massed one upon the other an incredible profusion, showing no leaf, no twig, nothing but the slaughterous red, luscious and fantastic” (Du Maurier 72). The suddenness and force of the rhododendrons when they appear in the clearing after the woods See more