[ SECRET POST #2609 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2609 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Yup! And she wore ROUGE! Quelle scandale!

My mother and I (we're Southerners and let me tell you, Southern women FLOVE this book and movie. When I was a kid we used to make a night of it, watching it when it came on TV--it was An Event) love to quote Melanie saying to Scarlett (gently, of course) "I'm glad you killed him, Scahlett." And yes, I love that she couldn't even pick up the sword but had to drag it in. I don't have the book in front of me but there's a line, something about how bugles sang in Melanie's blood--and for the first time Scarlett could hear it/see it.

[tabaqui]

'She saw in a flash of clarity untouched by any petty emotion that beneath the gentle voice and the dovelike eyes of Melanie there was a thin flashing blade of unbreakable steel, felt too that there were banners and bugles of courage in Melanie's quiet blood.'</i. Yes indeed. :)

[(Anonymous)]

YES! Thank you, there are passages of this book I literally know by heart but couldn't quite call all of that to mind.

Such a great novel--the classic Great American Novel. I am a theater person (actor/director mostly but sometimes produce and dramaturg)--I should write some kind of treatment about all the awesome female in GWTW!

[(Anonymous)]

SAAA (same anon as always)

Fun Fact: One of Mitchell's original titles for GWTW was Bugles Sang True--maybe that's why that phrase stuck in my head!

[tabaqui]

Oh, i didn't know that! Neat. :)

[(Anonymous)]

"Scarlett remembered how she had thought at the time, 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down the stairs and killed that Yankee--or been killed herself."

[tabaqui]

"What a cool liar!" thought Scarlett with admiration. "I couldn't have thought that quickly."

It's funny how Scarlett has several moments of admiring Melanie and really liking her in the moment - and conversely, being impatient and irritated with Ashly - and yet it takes her ages to realize the truth.

[ceebeegee]

SA as 6:44, 6:41, etc.

Self-insight is not Scarlett's strong suit :) Not unless there's an immediate practical goal to be realized--she is very, very practical. She makes me think of C.S. Lewis's line about witches and how "...They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical." This is why she agrees with Rhett about the futility of the Cause--she's not blinded by ideology.

And to the anon above--that was actually a spoken line in the movie and my Mom and I love to quote it! "What a cool liar you are, Melly..." And she's so cute at the window. "Don't be scared, chickens!"

One of my favorite scenes is the one between Scarlett and Ashley when she tries to convince him to run away. SO much happens in that scene, and I love that Ashley knows her better than she knows herself, sees virtues in her, like honor and gallantry and strength, that she doesn't know she has and knows that deep down she could never abandon Tara. "I've still got this..."

[tabaqui]

'Don't be scared, chickens!' is so perfect. :)

That *is* a good scene. It also shows, though, how truly silly Ashly is in his continual sort of...wanting of her. He won't leave Melanie, but he keeps giving Scarlett hope. At that moment, i think, if she'd had Rhett, she might have actually started to forget about Ashley.

But instead she goes to Mr. Kennedy, and she doesn't love him (though she has some affection for him), and it just shows Ashley in that golden 'perfect' light again.

I keep forgetting to use this icon. :)

[ceebeegee]

Okay, I'm going to try to remember this exchange by heart:

"If you felt like that...and you didn't...then you don't really love me."

"I can never make you understand."

They fell silent and looked at each other...

And then:

"You needn't go just because I've thrown myself at your head," she said clearly. "It won't happen again."

Yes, Ashley is a fool in a way--he tortures both himself and Scarlett by his proximity, giving her hope. And he and Rhett both know it. Rhett reduces Ashley's regard of Scarlett to mere physicality (because he's jealous) when it's more than that. But that's an important element of it, which Scarlett never really appreciates.

Aaaaugh!!! Such an amazing novel!

[tabaqui]

Yes, indeed. :)

I always loved the 'historical' bits, and wondered how well she'd written them - if she changed those a bit to reflect more kindly on the South or no. It's not my favorite period of history, so i don't know as much about it as others.