Jeannie Butler's Gone With The Wind

As Gone with the Wind begins, Scarlett O’Hara is illustrated as an attractive wealthy spoiled brat. She is just that. She can get any man in her vicinity; well, she can get all but the one she has wanted for some time. She is rather haughty with the knowledge of her being able to do what she wants. She has a very provocative demeanor. The way she bats her eye lashes, fidgets with clothing, or what she wears. Jeannie Campbell writes, “Scarlett had a tendency to select husbands” (Campbell, 2011). She begins her relationships with Charles Hamilton intending to spite Ashley Wilkes. Charles was a boy she had never given much thought to. Mr. Hamilton is killed early in the War Between the States. Then she steals her sister’s beau in order to have his money to continue owning Tara. Frank Kennedy is killed trying to take vigilantly action on the people that attacked Scarlett. Then the last husband (Rhett Butler) tells her that he will have to catch her in between husbands if he would
Rhett Butler leaves the scene and his marriage to Katie Scarlett O’Hara with the famous line, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Surprisingly, this was not the first curse word played on the big screen, but it is the earliest most memorable phrase containing a curse. Scarlett finalizes the movie with an intrapersonal communication about interpersonal conversations from the past decade (roughly the time portrayed in the movie) and convincing herself that she can go back to Tara and win back Rhett. Higgins writes, “’To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother’” (Higgins 2011). Tara is her home where she had so many fond memories, and now she needs someone or something to love her as she has lost Melanie, Bonnie, parents, and her husband. Sadly, there has not been a sequel to understand if the last scene was a self-fulfilling prophesy from