Masters: Don't Look Now

Class warfare seems to be the focus of both _The Talented Mr. Ripley_ and "Don't Look Now." Ripley in the film and novel is a lower-class con man who usurps himself into the aristocracy in order to rise in station. Him taking over the life of Dickie Greenleaf after murdering and falling in love with him shows Ripley as rising in station and prestige by merely being without personality. It's a mirror opposite in Du Maurier's "Don't Look Now" because while _Ripley_ focuses on a proletariat rising, "Don't Look Now" focuses on aristocracy falling. These two conflicting images show Italy as this place of tumultuous change and visceral response. "Don't Look Now" focuses on the haunting of a family by the vision of the husband's death. They are haunted by the death of their daughter and that shows them as their eventual flaw. While _Ripley_ can be seen as a Marxist critique, "Don't Look Now" focuses on the supernatural form of Marxism where all people are susceptible to hauntings.