Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

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What do you think of this book? What about the thing that the book is known as the love between Scarlett and Rhett... din Scarlett ever love Rhett, or she always loved Ashley? Why did she marry Rhett? Not for money? Develop a discution on these elements and many others. It will be interesting. :nod:

[papayahed]

Sounds like homework.

I liked the book, it makes a great doorstop.

I don't think Scarlett actually loved Ashely but perhaps loved the idea of loving him, I think if she ever truely "got" him she would be dissapointed and drop him shortly thereafter.

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And she loved Rhett?

[Pendragon]

I think Gone With the Wind is both an apt title and a good suggestion! It is the sort of book one reads because one is required to, not because one wants to. :nod:

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I think Gone With the Wind is both an apt title and a good suggestion! It is the sort of book one reads because one is required to, not because one wants to. :nod:

Bite you're tongue you ghost!

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And she loved Rhett?


what's you're opinion on the matter?

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I think she didn't love Rhett, I think she always loved Ashley and that she married Rhett for his money.

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I think she didn't love Rhett, I think she always loved Ashley and that she married Rhett for his money.

What makes you think that? By the time she married Rhett she had her own money.

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Does she ever say Rhett she loves him?

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Does she ever say Rhett she loves him?

Did you read the book?

We will help with homework, we don't do homework.

[Pendragon]

Bite you're tongue you ghost!Well, I could have quoted Dorothy Parker, thusly: "This is not a book to be lightly cast aside. It should be thrown with extreme force!" http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/froehlich/d050.gif

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Well, I could have quoted Dorothy Parker, thusly: "This is not a book to be lightly cast aside. It should be thrown with extreme force!" http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/froehlich/d050.gif


pfftttt... Who's Dorthy Parker anyways???

[ShoutGrace]

pfftttt... Who's Dorthy Parker anyways???


"The quickest way to a man's heart is to saw through his breast plate." ( Dorothy Parker) :banana:

Imagine what kind of a world we could be living in if everybody thought like Dorothy Parker . . . .

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"The quickest way to a man's heart is to saw through his breast plate." ( Dorothy Parker) :banana:

Imagine what kind of a world we could be living in if everybody thought like Dorothy Parker . . . .

I'm gonna have to find out more about this Dorthy Parker chick!!!

[Pendragon]

I'm gonna have to find out more about this Dorthy Parker chick!!!
Yes, Grover, m'dear, do your homework! She was a critic, of course, and a very caustic wit! ;)

Some of her more peppery passages are perhaps a bit spicy for quotation here, especially by a man of the cloth! :brow:

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What do you think? Do you think Ashley loved Scarlett?

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What do you think? Do you think Ashley loved Scarlett?

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At one point in the novel, Rhett says to Scarlett something like this: ,,Sure,I know that at you the practical part will always win, but I continue to see if one day, the good part from you will win. That day, I will pack my stuff and I will leave Atlanta forever. There are too many women in which the good part wins.But,let's get to our trouble now...''(I apologize, the translation is approximately). Now, my question: having this quote and knowning that Rhett leaves Atlanta, at the end of the book...what do you think he wanted to say over here?

[Mary Sue]

I think that Scarlett was INFATUATED, not in love, with Ashley. She wanted him simply because she couldn't have him. When she was a spoiled young girl and the local belle, he was the only man in creation who didn't seem interested. That made him a challenge...and later an obsession, after he'd rejected her to marry the "mousy" Melanie. But love? She never understood Ashley until the final chapter, by which time it had finally dawned on her that he wasn't even her type. And when Melanie died, so did Scarlett's immature fancy for Melanie's husband.

And did Ashley love Scarlett? Maybe. In a detached, dispassionate sort of way. He certainly admired her energy and her beauty. But his soul mate was always Melanie, so that in any case, Scarlett never really had a chance.

As for Rhett, obviously he was the right one for Scarlett. He suggested that she marry him for "fun," which is exactly what she did. She didn't have any romantic illusions about their union, yet the two of them were almost ideally suited. If only Scarlett had had more insight, she would have realized that it was Rhett that she really loved and HAD BEEN LOVING, all along. But her timing was off, she made too many mistakes...and so, to quote Carol Burnett, her last chance "went with the wind!"
: )