![]() ![]() At an Atlanta fundraising bazaar, Scarlett is so bored watching other girls dance, that when Rhett bids for her in a dance auction, she enthusiastically leads the Virginia Reel with him, oblivious to the outrage of the shocked local matrons. Her understanding mother Ellen decides to let her go to Atlanta to stay with Melanie and her Aunt Pittypat, hoping that Scarlett will feel less restless there. Some time later, Scarlett receives word that Charles has died of the measles, and she is forced to don widow's black clothing and refrain from going to the parties she loves. ![]() Just after Ashley and Melanie marry, Scarlett and Charles marry as well, delighting Melanie, who tells Scarlett that now they will truly be sisters. Later, when news arrives that war has broken out between the North and the South, Scarlett is stunned to see Ashley kiss Melanie goodbye as he leaves to enlist, and in a daze accepts the impulsive proposal of Melanie's brother Charles. She is angry at his seeming indifference to the seriousness of her feelings for Ashley and annoyed by his frank appreciation of her physical beauty. When he leaves, Scarlett angrily throws a vase and is startled to discover Rhett Butler, a notorious rogue from Charleston, who has been lying unnoticed on a couch the entire time. He says that he will marry Melanie because they are alike, but leads Scarlett to believe that he loves her instead of Melanie. Her father later confirms the news when he returns home to Tara, the O'Hara plantation, and advises Scarlett to forget about the serious-minded Ashley, because “like should marry like.” At the barbeque, Scarlett acts coquettish with all of the young men, hoping to make Ashley jealous, then, during an afternoon rest, sneaks into the library to see him. When the twins reveal the “secret” that Ashley Wilkes is planning to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton from Atlanta, Scarlett refuses to believe it because she is in love with Ashley herself. She much prefers to have beaux like Brent and Stuart Tarleton talk about the next day's barbecue at Twelve Oaks, the neighboring Wilkes plantation. “Everybody deserves a fresh start every once in a while.In 1861, Scarlett O'Hara, the headstrong sixteen-year-old daughter of wealthy Georgia plantation-owner Gerald O'Hara, is sick of hearing talk about going to war with the North. We're going to build a brand-new city where Detroit now stands - an example to the world.” “Sometimes we just have to start over, from scratch, to make things right, and that's exactly what we're going to do. The Childlike Empress: In the beginning, it is always dark.” Talking to Sam Dodsworth about travelling A perfectly glorious, free, adventurous life.” “I want a new life, all over from the very beginning. You want a new beginning? I am the new beginning!” “In the end you start thinking about the beginning.” Commencement: the end of one thing, the start of something new.” “I know this has been a difficult time for you, but I want you to try to enjoy this day. Enid: I'm serious! I'm just so sick of everybody. ![]() Just find some totally new place and start a whole new life. “- Enid: You know what we should do? We should just get in your car right now, and just drive off. But in life, every ending is just a new beginning.” Jason: Then live with it! You did an awful thing, that does not make you a awful person. It's the beginning of everything!”īurt Lancaster - Prince Don Fabrizio Salina You need to remember that when you find yourself at the beginning. “Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it is the middle that counts the most. But to make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!” “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. ![]()
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