Mrs. Danvers resents the new wife 's intrusion and persuades the new wife that she is an unworthy replacement for the first Mrs. DeWinter who perished in a drowning accident .
The first Mrs. DeWinter is the glamorous and mysterious Rebecca .
Mrs. Danvers resents the new wife 's intrusion and persuades the new wife that she is an unworthy replacement for the first Mrs. DeWinter , the glamorous and mysterious Rebecca , who perished in a drowning accident .