Monday, March 14, 2011

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell up to page 450

This section was a little shocking to me at first, it shows a sign of Scarlett I have yet to see....here's what happened:
A Yankee cavalryman rides up to Tara and enters the house with his pistol drawn, looking for loot. Scarlett shoots him point-blank with Charles’s pistol. As he falls down dead, she sees Melanie at the top of the stairs carrying Charles’s sword. For the first time, Scarlett feels admiration for Melanie. They discover money in the Yankee’s pockets. Though shocked by the thought that she has killed, Scarlett feels justified in defending Tara and happy to have the Yankee’s precious money and horse. Scarlett visits the nearby Fontaine plantation and finds the women eager to share their supplies. Scarlett tells her troubles to Old Miss Fontaine, who warns Scarlett to save something to fear or else she will become too cold and hardened. To Scarlett’s relief, Old Miss Fontaine says that at one point in her life she picked cotton to support her father and she never considered herself white trash for doing so. Scarlett returns to Tara and takes up the work of picking cotton, which she considers humiliating “slave work.” Only Dilcey helps her while Mammy and Pork insist that, as house workers, they will not perform field hand labor. Melanie is still too weak for laboring. Still, now that she has food, money, and a horse, Scarlett believes the worst is over.
Scarlett has become more of a dependent woman now that she is back home, defending her house and making a living for herself. Im really proud of her, and now she just needs to find a good and reliable husband to raise her son with! Hopefully he will come soon... :)

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