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Why did Rhett want to marry Scarlet when he knew what a nut case she was?

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That happens all the time in real life. We men aren't too smart.

However, you think someone with Rhett's intelligence, sophistication and experience would be smarter than the local rubes and wimpish Ashley.

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All of my girlfriends were nut cases until I met the one who became my wife. I can't explain it. But that's the way it is.

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Hope you both are happy!

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I think that it was Rhett saw a lot of himself in Scarlett. Scarlett was stubborn, and determined, and she was strong emotionally. She took care of everyone, even the wife of the man she "loved". She did things her own way to get by, just like Rhett did running the blockade. He thought that if Scarlett could see what life could be like that she would love him, and let Ashley go, which she did, but too late.

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Yeah, it was part that they had so much in common, part sexual desire, part desire to rescue her from the various bad situations she'd landed herself in, part knowing she'd never give it up without a ring on her finger, and part knowing he needed to act fast before she married someone else.

One of the things that makes the book and film so engrossing is that those two are ALWAYS on the verge of making it work, but never do. There are dozens of little and big moments where you see how much in common they have, how obviously they're meant for each other, and the wrong thing is said or fails to be said, and they're driven further apart. It's frustrating, and keeps you in the story.

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Just out of curiosity, did you read Scarlett?

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Yes. It was DREADFUL.

95% dreadful, anyway, and maybe 5% passable. The part where she goes to Charleston to chase after Rhett wasn't bad, it was set in Scarlett's world and featured Scarlett acting like Scarlett. The rest was just unspeakable.

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When I was a teenager I liked it because I wanted the ending that we got. I recently read it again and was ashamed I ever liked it. I do agree that the Charleston part was passable, but now I see it as just a fan fiction fantasy. I think that Mitchell ended GWTW brilliantly.

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Well, a bit of fan fiction can be fun now and then, but I've read much better amateur stuff online.

Not GWTW fan fiction, of course, but fan fiction in general.

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Was she a nut case? She was a schemer that's for sure.

Scarlett was strong willed and hard headed, but she also showed herself to be shrewd and pragmatic, qualities Rhett saw in himself.

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" Was she a nut case? She was a schemer that's for sure.

Scarlett was strong willed and hard headed, but she also showed herself to be shrewd and pragmatic, qualities Rhett saw in himself. "


If you consider Scarlet objectively she was a sociopath.

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Funny. I think they were both apex predators and wanted to possess the best of the best. Then they realized they rubbed each other the wrong way, couldn't stand being around each other.

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