Question about GONE WITH THE WIND (SPOILERS)

[raccoon]

Doesn't it seem like to you that after Scarlett went through the war, Sherman's invasion of Atlanta, Union troops foraging at Tara, murdering a lone Union straggler who showed up at Tara, hunger, privation, etc., that after years of that she'd get over her infatuation with Ashley?



edited to add, SPOILERS.

[Hestia]

1. Well, she does seem to have Narcasisstic Personality Disorder - who knows?

[ananda]

2. LOL

It's a novel. It's not real life.

Somebody just made this all up.

HTH

[Lex]

10. Wow, never took a literature course in college, eh? nt

[msongs]

3. she could dominate ashley but not have him & rhett dominated her n left her in the end nt

[Me.]

4. He Was A Dream

A fantasy of her teenage years. Don't forget, she was still a teenager when that all happened. She was used to being the belle of the ball and he was the only one she couldn't get so that combined with her immaturity made hum a very potent force in her life. As you know it was only at the end when she finally realized she didn't, and never had, mean t anything to him that the bubble popped.

[Lerkfish]

5. not that I care a great deal, but I always wondered why she mooned over Ashley

when Clark Gable was around.

I don't know what the book portrayed him as, but the movie made him seem like a milquetoast uninteresting fellow. the only value he had as a choice was her own obsession with him. Other than that, I didn't see the attraction.

of course, I last saw the movie 40 years ago, so my memory could be inaccurate.

[raccoon]

6. Leslie Howard was too old to play Ashley, especially since Ashley was supposed to be about 20

at the beginning of the book.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. Believe it or not, Leslie Howard was a heartthrob at the time the movie was cast

For me, he's not well-cast because he sounds English rather than Southern. (He was English, but so was Vivien Leigh, and she got the accent right.)

[raccoon]

13. Him a heartthrob? There's no accounting for taste. I agree he didn't get the accent.

That was one thing that always bugged me about Hayley Mills, although I liked her as an actress. But why couldn't she have done an American accent when she played an American?

[asjr]

7. Well, fiddle de de, don't you know Scarlett

was of the Southern Aristocracy and always got her way? I first read that book when I was 12 yrs. old. I would go around the house later saying fiddle de de to anyone who would listen.

[abluelady]

8. Come On Now

She was in looooovvve!

[fadedrose]

9. Couldn't & can't stand Ashley.

To me he ruined the movie . . .there were so so many good actors at that time that would have been a bit more comparative to Clark Gable. Ashley was not credible in the part.

[MicaelS]

12. I always thought Scarlett O'Hara was an idiot for choosing

Ashley over Rhett, and I still do.

[stray cat]

14. Look at DU?