“’This,’ said a voice from the depths of the sofa, ‘is too much.’ Nothing had ever startled or frightened her so much, and her mouth went too dry for her to utter a sound. She caught hold of the back of the chair, her knees going weak under her, as Rhett Butler rose from the sofa where he had been lying and made her a bow of exaggerated politeness. ‘It is bad enough to have an afternoon nap disturbed by such a passage as I’ve been forced to hear, but why should my life be endangered?’” -Margaret Mitchell
Tag: gone with the wind
A sudden hush fell on the crowd both at the mention of the sum and the name. Scarlett was so startled she could not even move…everybody turned to look at her…she leaped to her feet, her heart hammering so wildly she feared she could not stand, hammering with the thrill of being the center of attention again, of being the most highly desired girl present and oh, best of all, at the prospect of dancing again.
Parallels between the HBIC of the Old South and North Shore’s Queen Bee. Scarlett O’Hara is the mean girl we can’t help wanting to be. Sure, she can be cruel, heartless, and insensitive; she stabs friends in the back, marries out of sheer spite, and doggedly pursues men she knows are wrong for her. Still, she’s also utterly unflappable, brave, and shrewd, and she singlehandedly runs her family’s plantation, fights off robbers, delivers a baby, and basically takes care of business like a boss. If more mean girls were like Scarlett, that crowd might not get such a bad rap.
“I don’t know of any other movie to have that intensity of that love-hate, attraction-repulsion that you have there. That whole series of misoppourtnities and miscues when one is ready for the other, and the other is not ready, it’s just so painful.“ -Molly Haskell
Walter Plunkett design sketches for Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara in the 1939 film Gone With the Wind
Vivien Leigh in costume tests for Gone With The Wind (1939)
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