Steve Jobs once said, “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let yourself be trapped by dogma, which means living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other people's opinions drown out your inner voice” (Hudspeth). This applies to anyone who is trying to discover who they are or their identity but is too influenced by what others say to do so. In the book Rebecca, author Daphne du Maurier uses the gothic doppelganger couple between the narrator and Rebecca, to show the heroine's journey in search of her identity. A doppelganger is “the alter ego or identical double of a protagonist who appears to be the victim of identity theft perpetrated by an imitating supernatural presence or subject to a paranoid hallucination” (Faurholt). With the existence and constant comparison between the heroine and the transcendental Rebecca from the opinions and internal thoughts of both, the narrator cannot find her identity until she sees that she is not the same person as her supernormal doppelganger. With the mere existence of the narrator's gothic doppelganger, Rebecca, the heroine fails to find her true identity. Initially, the narrator cannot cope with Rebecca's involvement with her husband. When he finds a book about "Rebecca's Max," he burns the book until "the letter R was the last to go [twisting] into the flame" (57). The narrator tries to destroy the past and Rebecca's only presence at that time because she doesn't want to think that her husband was in love with someone else before her. She becomes paranoid about having to share Maxim's love between herself and her doppelganger. So, instead of finding her identity... in the middle of the paper, Rebecca's supernatural presence disappeared. With Rebecca's presence and the confrontation between the two doppelgangers, it is difficult for the narrator to realize who he is because he finds himself in a "paradox of meeting oneself as another", through the late Mrs. de Winter (Faurholt). However, once the narrator overcomes Rebecca's existence, he is able to discover who she is and her identity. Because the narrator was heavily influenced by other people's opinions about her doppelganger and didn't listen to the only thing that mattered: what she thought, she didn't find her identity. As the great Steve Jobs once said: “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let yourself be trapped by dogma, which means living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other people's opinions drown out your inner voice" (Hudspeth).