Last updated on October 21, 2015
I was looking forward to read Gone by the wind, I had heard and read so much about it. It was a ‘must read’ -so I have been told- and one Christmas, when I thought my English was good enough to read a whole book, I went out to the library and brought it home.
Maybe I was too old then and expected too much. Maybe I didn’t understand that Southern Belle thing or maybe I just didn’t know that I had to picture Rhett Butler with the face of Clark Gable. I might get tarred and feathered for writing this, but I read the book with only one question on my mind, “What in the world was wrong with Scarlet O’Hara?” I mean talk about a spoiled brat. It took about 900 pages of her manipulating others, until she finally realized that the had run after an illusion (I could have told her that on page 50). I think Scarlet O’Hara is one of my least favorite characters in a book.
So I would like her to meet Doctor Hannibal Lecter, from Silence of the Lamb…
The End
(sorry couldn’t help it)
Worlds Colliding
Take two main characters from two different books (either fiction or nonfiction) and introduce them to, or have them meet, each other. What would happen next?
Actually , in my youth , nearly all the novels were full of exemplar feminine-characters , sometimes very boring.
Scarlet O’Hara , whom I met at sixteen , constituted the classical “antihero”and all the girls were interested in this character , finding at last something different and dared .
There are many characters in literature that are highly questionable 🙂 Maybe I was too old when I read it, or my expectations were just so high that I had to be disappointed.
I told you, I was sixteen , and had only read about virgins and the like….
I am brain dead today..sorry
Nice twist. Made me smile. 🙂
I’m glad it wasn’t just me. But then again, she lived in a world of unreality, where everyone believe a lot of bullshit. She just drank the Koolaid. Too much Koolaid.
I didn’t care for her at all. Years later, when we moved to the South I met a few of the “sweet” Southern Belle’s. Good Lord..no wonder they have a drinking problem there and it ain’t Koolaid 🙂
Ha! I must admit i tried to read it again in my fifties and it didn’t have the same pull as it did at 16. Nor did the movie. Here’s my contribution to the prompt: http://judydykstrabrown.com/2015/09/10/leaves-in-a-dry-wind/
LMBO!!! THAT is a great review! She WAS a spoiled brat.