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Gone With The Wind
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Introduction
Gone
With
the
Wind,
an
all-time
best-seller
by
Margaret
Mitchell, is a legendary recollection
of the last
brilliance
of
the
Old
South.
The
writer's
debut
novel
was
an
instant
success.
And
the
story
has
been
bestowed
an
even
further
reaching
popularity
since
Vivian
Leigh
presented a vivid
translation to the screen of Katie
Scarlett O'Hara, a southern belle
raised in her
father's white-pillared
plantation Tara. A climax of
Hollywood,
from
Director
Victor
Fleming
for
MGM,
Gone
with the Wind is more than a
vicissitude, it is also
an
old,
lost
culture
revisited.
It
is
Old
South,
which
today is no more than
a
dream remembered. People were
once
there,
living
with
the
high
strong
slaves'
songs
in
the
quarters,
in
security,
peace
and
eternity.
Here,
Scarlett spends her
young maiden years. She is well
disciplined
by
her
mother,
but
her
blazing
green
eyes
always
betray
her
covert
capricious
self;
the
one
who
enjoys
parties
and
the
surrounding
of
beaus.
She
dreams
to marry the noble Ashley Wilkes. The
impending war
shatters
the
golden
peace
of
the
South,
and
leaves
many
lives
permanently
changed.
Plantations,
treasures,
and
honor
are
ruined.
Scarlett
is
made
a
most
peculiar
widow
by
the war,
and then compelled into a second marriage
in continuation of her struggle for the
salvation of
Tara. And her third
marriage to Rhett Butler is also
jeopardized
because
of
her
secret,
stubborn
ardency
for
Ashley.
In
the
end
of
the
movie,
Scarlett
is
left
only
with her Tara, a
plantation which symbolizes the
culture
of
the
Old
South,
a
place
where
she
could
ever
gather her
strength.
Chapter 1
Scarlett'
s
Jealousy
(Tara
is
the
beautiful
homeland
of
Scarlett,
who
is
now
talking with the twins,
Brent and Stew, at the door
step.)
BRENT:
What
do
we
care
if
we
were
expelled
from
college,
Scarlett. The war
is going to start any day now so we
would have left college
anyhow.
STEW:
Oh,
isn't
it
exciting,
Scarlett?
You
know
those
poor
Yankees
actually
want
a
war?
BRENT:
We'll
show'em.
SCARLETT:
Fiddle-dee-dee.
War,
war,
war.
This
war
talk
is
spoiling all
the fun at every party this spring. I
get
so
bored
I
could
scream.
Besides,
there
isn't
going
to be any war.
BRENT: Not going to be any
war?
STEW: Ah, buddy, of
course there's going to be a war.
SCARLETT: If either of you boys says
again, I'll go in the house and slam
the door. BRENT:
But Scarlett
honey..
STEW: Don't you want
us to have a war? BRENT: Wait a
minute,
Scarlett...
STEW:
We'll
talk
about
this...
BRENT:
No
please,
we'll
do
anything
you
say...
SCARLETT:
Well-but
remember
I
warned
you.
BRENT:
I've
got
an
idea.
We'll
talk about
the barbecue the Wilkes
are giving over at
Twelve Oaks
tomorrow.
STEW:
That's
a
good
idea.
You're
eating
barbecue
with
us, aren't
you, Scarlett?
SCARLETT: Well, I hadn't thought about
that yet,
I'll...I'll think
about
that
tomorrow.
STEW:
And
we
want
all
your
waltzes,
there's
first
Brent,
then
me,
then
Brent,
then
me
again,
then
Saul.
Promise?
SCARLETT: I' just
love to.
STEW:
Yahoo!
SCARLETT:
If
only
..if
only
I
didn't
have
every
one
of
them taken
already.
BRENT:
Honey, you can't do that to us.
STEW: How about if we tell you a
secret?
SCARLETT: Secret?
Who by?
BRENT: Well, you
know Miss Melanie Hamilton, from
Atlanta?
STEW:
Ashley Wilkes' cousin? Well she's visiting the
Wilkes at
Twelve
Oaks.
SCARLETT: Melanie
Hamilton, that goody-goody. Who
wants
no
secret about her. BRENT:
Well, anyway we
heard...
STEW:
That
is,
they
say..
BRENT:
Ashley
Wilkes
is
going
to marry
her.
STEW:
You
know
the
Wilkes
always
marry
their
cousins.
BRENT:
Now do we
get those waltzes?
SCARLETT:
Of course. BRENT: Yahoo!
SCARLETT: It can't be true...Ashley
loves me.
STEW:
Scarlett!
(Scarlett
couldn't
accept
the
fact
of
Ashley's
marriage,
she rushes to
find
her
father.
Mr.
O'Hara
is
just
back
from
a
ride.)
Mr. O'HARA: (To his
horse)
There's none in the county
can
touch
you, and none in the
state.
SCARLETT: Paw? How
proud of yourself you are!
Mr.
O'HARA:
Well,
it
is
Scarlett
O'Hara.
So,
you've
been
spying on
me. And
like
your
sister Sue Ellen,
you'll be telling
your mother
on
me, that I was jumping
again.
SCARLETT:
Oh,
Paw,
you
know
I'm
no
'tattle
like
Sue
Ellen.
But it
does
seem
to
me
that
after
you
broke
your
knee
last
year
jumping that
same
fence......
Mr. O'HARA: I'll
not have me own daughter telling me
what I shall
jump
and not jump. It's my own neck, so it
is.
SCARLETT:
All
right
Paw,
you
jump
what
you
please.
How
are
they
all over at Twelve
Oaks?
Mr. O'HARA: The
Wilkes?
Oh, what
you expect,
with the
barbecue
tomorrow and talking, nothing but
war...
SCARLETT: Oh bother
the war....was there, was there
anyone
else
there?
Mr. O'HARA: Oh, their cousin Melanie
Hamilton from
Atlanta. And
her brother Charles.
SCARLETT: Melanie Hamilton. She's a
pale-faced
mealy-mouthed
ninny and I hate her.
Mr. O'HARA: Ashley Wilkes doesn't think
so.
SCARLETT:
Ashley
Wilkes
couldn't
like
anyone
like
her.
Mr. O'HARA:
What's your interest in Ashley and Miss
Melanie?
SCARLETT:
It's...it's
nothing.
Let's
go
into
the
house,
Paw.
Mr.
O'HARA:
Has
he
been
trifling
with
you?
Has
he
asked
you to marry him?
SCARLETT No.
Mr.
O'HARA: No, nor will he. I have it in
strictest
confidence
from
John
Wilkes
this
afternoon,
Ashley
is
going to marry Miss Melanie. It'll be
announced
tomorrow
night at the ball.
SCARLETT: I don't believe
it!
Mr. O'HARA: Here, here
what are you after? Scarlett!
What are you about? Have you been
making a spectacle
of
yourself
running
about
after
a
man
who's
not
in
love
with you? When you might have any of
the bucks in the
county?
SCARLETT:
I
haven't
been
running
after
him,
it's...it's
just a surprise that's all.
Mr. O'HARA: Now, don't be jerking your
chin at me. If
Ashley
wanted
to
marry
you,
it
would
be
with
misgivings,
I'd
say yes. I want my girl to be happy. You'd not be
happy with him.
SCARLETT: I would, I would.
Mr. O'HARA: What difference does it
make whom you
marry?
So
long
as
he's
a
Southerner
and
thinks
like
you.
And when I'm
gone, I leave Tara to you.
SCARLETT: I don't want Tara,
plantations don't mean
anything
when...
Mr.
O'HARA:
Do
you
mean
to
toll
me
Katie
Scarlett
O'Hara
that
Tara,
that
land
doesn't
mean
anything
to
you?
Why,
land
is
the
only
thing
in
the
world
worth
working
for.
Worth
fighting
for,
worth
dying
for.
Because
it's
the
only thing that
lasts.
SCARLETT: Oh, Paw,
you talk like an Irishman.
Mr. O'HARA: It's proud I am that I'm
Irish. And don't
you
be
forgetting,
Missy,
that
you're
half-Irish
too.
And
to
anyone
with
a
drop
of
Irish
blood
in
them,
why
the
land
they
live
on
is
like
their
mother.
Oh,
but
there,
there,
now,
you're just
a child. It'll come to you, this love of
the land.
There's
no getting away from it if you're
Irish.
(Next day, the
O’Hara’s drive to
Twelve Oaks for the
barbeque there.)
Mr.
O'HARA::
Well,
John
Wilkes.
It's
a
grand
day
you'll
be having
for the barbecue.
JOHN
WILKES:
So
it
seems,
Gerald.
Why
isn't
Mrs.
0'Hara
with you?
Mr. O'HARA: She's after settling
accounts with the
overseer,
but she'll be along for the ball
tonight.
INDIA: Welcome to
Twelve Oaks, Mr. O'Hara.
Mr.
O'HARA: : Thank you kindly, India. Your daughter
is
getting
prettier everyday, John.
JOHN WILKES: Oh, India, here are
the O'Hara girls, we
must
greet them.
INDIA:
Can't
stand
that
Scarlett.
If
you'd
see
the
way
she throws
herself at Ashley.
JOHN
WILKES:
Now,
now,
that's
your
brother's
business.
You
must
remember
your
duties
as
hostess.
Good
morning,
girls!
You look lovely. Good morning,
Scarlett.
SCARLETT: India
Wilkes. What a lovely dress. I just
can't
take my
eyes off it.
(Scarlett
enters the hall with her family.)
MAN1: Good morning, Miss
Scarlett.
SCARLETT:
Morning.
MAN2: Look mighty
fine this morning, Miss Scarlett.
SCARLETT: Thank you.
MANS: Morning Miss Scarlett.
SCARLETT: Good Morning.
MAN4: Pleasure to see you, Miss
Scarlett.
MANS: Howdy, Miss
Scarlett.
SCARLETT:
Ashley!
ASHLEY: Scarlett! My
dear!
SCARLETT: I've been
looking for you everywhere. I've
got something I must tell you. Can't we
go some place
where it's
quiet?
ASHLEY:
Yes
I'd
like
to,
but...
I've
something
to
tell
you,
too.
Something
I...I hope
you'll
be glad to hear. Now
come
and say
hello to my cousin, Melanie Wilkes.
SCARLETT: Oh, do we have to?
ASHLEY:
She's
been
looking
forward
to
seeing
you
again.
Melanie! Here's Scarlett.
MELANIE: Scarlett. I'm so glad to see
you again.
SCARLETT: Melanie
Hamilton, what a surprise to run
into you here. I hope you're going to
stay with us a
few
days at least.
MELANIE:
I
hope
I
shall
stay
long
enough
for
us
to
become
real
friends, Scarlett. I do so want us to
be.
ASHLEY: We'll keep her
here, won't we, Scarlett?
SCARLETT:
Oh,
we'll
just
have
to
make
the
biggest
fuss
over
her,
won't
we,
Ashley?
And
if
there's
anybody
who
knows
how
to
give
a
girl
a
good
time,
it's
Ashley.
Though
I
expect
our
good
times
must
seem
terribly
silly
to
you
because you're so
serious.
MELANIE: Oh,
Scarlett. You have so much life. I've
always
admired
you so, I wish I could be more like
you.
SCARLETT: You mustn't
flatter me, Melanie, and say
things you don't mean.
ASHLEY:
Nobody
could
accuse
Melanie
of
being
insincere.
Could
they, my dear?
SCARLETT: Oh,
well then, she's not like you. Is she,
Ashley?
Ashley
never
means
a
word
he
says
to
any
girl.
Oh,
why
Charles
Hamilton,
you
handsome
old
thing,
you.
CHARLES HAMILTON: But, oh. Miss
O'Hara...
SCARLETT: Do you
think that was kind to bring your
good-looking
brother
down
here
just
to
break
my
poor,
simple
country-girl's heart?
(India
and
Sue
Ellen
are
watching
Scarlett
in
distance)
ELLEN:
Look at Scarlett, she's never even noticed
Charles
before,
now just because he's your beau, she's after
him
like a
^hornet!
SCARLETT: Charles
Hamilton, I want to eat barbecue
with
you.
And
mind
you
don't
go
^philandering
with
any
other girl because I'm mighty
jealous.
CHARLES HAMILTON: I
won't, Miss O'Hara. I couldn't!
SCARLETT: I do declare, Frank Kelly,
you don't look
dashing with
that new set of whiskers.
FRANK: Oh, thank you, thank you, Miss
Scarlett.
SCARLETT: You know
Charles Hamilton and Ray Kelvert
asked
me
to eat barbecue with
them, but I told them I couldn't
because I'd
promised
you.
INDIA:
You
needn't
be
so
amused,
look
at
her. She's after your beau
now.
FRANK: Oh, that's
mighty flattering of you, Miss
Scarlett. I'll see
what I can do, Miss
Scarlett.
KATHLEEN: What's
your sister so mad about, Scarlett,
you
sparking
her
beau?
SCARLETT:
As
if
I
couldn't
get
a
better
beau
than
that
old maid in
britches. Brent and Stew, do talk, you
handsome old
thing,
you...oh,
no,
you're
not,
I
don't
mean
to
say
that
I'm
mad
at
you.
BRENT: Why
Scarlett honey...
SCARLETT: You haven't been near me all
day and I wore
this old
dress
just
because
I
thought
you
liked
it.
I
was
counting
on eating
barbecue with you two. BRENT: Well, you
are,
Scarlett...
STEW: Of course you are,
honey.
SCARLETT:
Oh,
I
never
can
make
up
my
mind
which
of
you
two's
handsomer.
I
was
awake
all
last
night
trying
to
figure
it out. Kathleen, who's
that?
KATHLEEN:
Who?
SCARLETT: That
man looking at
us
and smiling. A nasty
dog.
KATHLEEN: My
dear, don't you know? That's Rhett
Butler.
He's
from
Charleston.
He
has
the
most
terrible
reputation.
SCARLETT:
He
looks
as
if,
as
if
he
knows
what
I
looked
like without my
shimmy.
KATHLEEN: How? But
my dear, he isn't received. He's
had
to
spend
most
of
his
time
up
North
because
his
folks
in
Charleston
won't
even
speak
to
him.
He
was
expelled
from
West Point, he's so fast. And then there's
that
business about that
girl he wouldn't marry...
SCARLETT: Tell, tell...
KATHLEEN: Well, he took her out in a
buggy riding in
the late
afternoon without a chaperone and then, and
then
he refused
to marry her!
SCARLETT:
(whisper)...
KATHLEEN: No,
but she was ruined just the same.
(Ashley
and
Melanie,
on
the
balcony
open
to
the
garden.)
MELANIE: Ashley..
ASHLEY: Happy?
MELANIE: So happy
ASHLEY:
You
seem
to
belong
here.
As
if
it
had
all
been
imagined for
you.
MELANIE:
I
like
to
feel
that
I
belong
to
the
things
you
love.
ASHLEY: You love Twelve Oaks as I
do.
MELANIE:
Yes,
Ashley.
I
love
it
as,
as
more
than
a
house.
It's a
whole world that wants only to be graceful and
beautiful.
ASHLEY: And so unaware that
it may not last, forever.
MELANIE:
You're
afraid
of
what
may
happen
when
the
war
conies,
aren't
you? Well, we don't have to be afraid. For us.
No war can come
into
our
world
Ashley.
Whatever
comes,
I'll
love
you,
just as I do now. Until
I die.
Chapter 2
Scarlett Meeting
Butler
(Noon
time, the gentlemen are gathering in the down
stair hall,
talking about the war.)
Mr. O'HARA: We've borne enough insults
from the
Yankees.
It's
time
we
made
them
understand
we
keep
our
slaves with
or
without
their
approval.
Who's
to
stop
them
right
from
the
state of
Georgia to ^secede
from the Union.
MAN: That's
right.
Mr. O'HARA: The South
must assert ourselves by force
of
arms.
After we fired on the
Yankee rascals at Fort Sumter,
we've
got to fight.
There's no
other way.
MAN1: Fight,
that's right, fight!
MAN2:
Let the
Yankee's be the ones
to ask for peace.
Mr.
O'HARA:
The
situation
is
very
simple.
The
Yankees
can't
fight
and we can. CHORUS:
You're right!
MANS: That's
what I'll think!
They'll
just turn and run every time.
MAN1: One Southerner can lick twenty
Yankees.
MAN2: We'll finish
them in one battle. Gentlemen can
always fight
better
than
rattle.
MANS:
Yes,
gentlemen
always
fight
better than rattle.
Mr.
O'HARA:
And
what
does
the
captain
of
our
troop
say?
ASHLEY:
Well,
gentlemen...if
Georgia
fights,
I
go
with
her. But
like
my
father
I
hope
that
the
Yankees
let
us
leave
the
Union
in peace.
MAN1:
But
Ashley...
MAN2:
Ashley,
they've
insulted
us.
MANS: You can't mean that you don't
want war.
ASHLEY: Most
of the
miseries of the world
were caused
by wars.