Scarlett is only for those who want a cheap,false happy ending to GWTW.Ripley makes crude the name of Gone With the Wind.She severly lacks the charm and captivating writing ability of Margaret Mitchell.It pains me to call this book even mediocre.The situations set in this book are absurdly ridiculous and far-fetched.GWTW was a love story that was not only about Rhett and
"My Dear,I don't give a damn," (718) Rhett Butler says this infamous quote to Scarlet O'Hara at the end of Gone With the Wind (1934),when the woman has finally poured her soul to him.The novel Gone with the Wind (1934) by Margaret Mitchell is a classic about the hard times suffered during and after the Civil War.Scarlet lives in the Confederacy and everyone there is for fighting for his or her noble Cause.The young southern belle Scarlet O'Hara is forced to do things she never thought a girl of her class and nature would have to do.All throughout the novel,she is faced with serious problems.Scarlet plainly states,I'll not think of that today,I'll think of it tomorrow,for tomorrow is another day,which of course she never does.It is this thought however,that makes her character stay strong,although sometimes living in a daydream.Without telling herself this,Scarlet would have broken down in the very beginning after the war had started.Scarlet lives for the future and not the past.It's this about her that makes ...
Scarlett but about the whole South and the undying devotion and pride that southerners felt toward their culture and land.Ripley shatters all of this in her book.She not only sends Scarlett to Ireland and has her have an affair with a lord,but includes a mad love scene in which Scarlett and Rhett roll around on the beach.Although Ripley deserves a curt nod for attempting to write a sequel to GWTW,GWTW was not meant to have a sequel and Scarlett is only a cheap trashy paperback replacement.True lovers of GWTW know this.
