The princely Ashley Wilkes speaks as though his mind were in a truss, but to Scarlett he is ever, quite simply, the tall drowsy boy she loved. Phrases that ring clear have most often to do with Scarletts characterdetermined and gay, childlike and utterly selfishas she finds herself, confused and resentful, in acts of necessary kindness: yielding her bonnet to shield Melanie from the beating sun on the road to Tara, her only thought is the endearingly grumpy Ill be as freckled as a guinea egg before this day is over. And, in what must be the sweetest line in the book, Scarlett ministers, unhappily, to the broken young Confederate soldiers as they retreat through Atlanta: Why should she be standing here in Aunt Pittys peaceful front yard, amid wavering lights, pouring water over dying beaux? Those critics and readers who vexed Mitchell by insisting on her heroines modernitywho recognized in Scarlett OHara traces of the jazz age girlmay have been on to something of her origins

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