Linguopragmatic aspects of fictional texts in English and Karakalpak languages

The story begins in Monte Carlo where a rich American woman called Mrs Van 
Hopper is staying with her paid companion, the young and inexperienced narrator. 
Mrs Van Hopper discovers that Maxim de Winter is staying at the same hotel and 
is eager to meet him, as an air of mystery and sadness is said to surround him since 
the recent death of his wife Rebecca. 
Maxim and the narrator get to know one another. The narrator thinks Maxim is 
wonderful but his is twice her age and much more experienced in life than her and 
despite the fact that they go out together every day and spend a lot of time together 
she thinks Maxim is just being kind to her. When Mrs Van Hopper suddenly 
decides to leave Monte Carlo, Maxim asks the narrator to marry him and she 
accepts. Then Maxim takes the narrator home to Manderley his country estate in 
Cornwall… 
In the Christian Science Monitor, September 14th 1938 page 12, V S Pritchett 
reviewed REBECCA for the American public. He said that it had received 
fabulous reviews in England, reading almost like advertising copy. He then went 
on to say that it would be absurd to make a fuss about REBECCA, which would be 
here today and gone tomorrow like the rest of publicity's masterpieces. How wrong 
he was, REBECCA became the most famous of all Daphne Du Maurier's novels 
and is still the one that she is best remembered for. Daphne could never understand 
its popularity saying that it was simply a study in jealousy. 
Two years later, it was made into a fabulous four-star movie directed by Alfred 
Hitchcock (his first American film) staring Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, 
George Sanders and Judith Anderson. It won Academy Awards for Best Picture 
and Cinematography. 
REBECCA has been variously described, firstly as an example of the Cinderella 
story but with the central character being helped from rags to riches by the older 
man who marries her rather than the more traditional help of a fairy godmother. 
REBECCA has also been described as the first major gothic romance in the 20th 
century. It certainly contains all the elements of the great gothic novel and had 

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often been compared to `Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte, with the house so strongly 
influenced by the previous occupant, the brooding hero in the shape of Maxim, the 
mad woman in the shape of Mrs Danvers, the growing tension, and finally the 
house destroyed by fire. 
To begin the stylistic analysis we ought to mention that the narration is conducted 
from the first person that's why the described events had subjective character. The 
author has a possibility not just to show some events, but also to open the internal 
world of the storyteller. It defines the specificity of the further reader's recognition.