![]() ![]() And as a teenager reading the book, I thought, that’s me.ĭon’t get me wrong - it’s not like I was a Southern belle dealing with war and death and sorrow and poverty. ![]() She’s bold and vain and impetuous, passionate and brave, sometimes cruel and selfish. She schemes and dreams and lies and connives – and survives. She steers her own action and makes plenty of her own giant mistakes. Scarlett O’Hara isn’t a passive character. With that girl, bad things happened to her, but never because of her. ![]() She wasn’t going to be the annoyingly flawless, demure heroine I was tired of reading in books, the kind of girl who never made mistakes and when bad things happened, it was never her fault. I fell in love with Scarlett O’Hara from the first line: “Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.” This was a girl who wasn’t perfect and didn’t pretend to be. Chances were especially high that you would find me with a well-worn (not kidding, the cover is missing) copy of one book in particular: Gone With The Wind. If you wanted to find me, chances were high that I’d be parked somewhere and not even notice you, because I was fully absorbed in a book. GoodreadsĪs a teen, I read voraciously. ![]()
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