My initial read of it was that it felt very heavily influenced by the Turn of the Screw, in that it’s a country manor ghost story told by a woman who’s kind of losing it; while Screw suggests that the ghosts might not be real, Rebecca goes 1 step further: a house doesn’t need ghosts to be haunted

As I got further in the book, though, it became clear to me that the book is riffing heavily on Jane Eyre. De Winter is Rochester, a tormented older man with terrible secrets marrying a younger lower-class naïf. Unlike Rochester, De Winter has a significant Bluebeard aspect.