Scarlett O’Hara is the protagonist of Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell. She is a southern belle from Georgia who becomes strong and courageous during the Civil War, fighting to save her family and home. Scarlett is described as small but powerful, and is torn between her love for Ashley and Rhett.
Scarlett O’Hara is the protagonist of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel, Gone with the Wind, which was later made into an epic film. The character’s full name is Katie Scarlett O’Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler. O’Hara is a southern belle growing up on a plantation in Georgia called Tara.
Scarlett’s mother, Ellen, is French-American and her father, Gerald O’Hara, is Irish. Scarlett has always had feelings for the boy next door, Ashley Wilkes, but later she too becomes attracted to the block pilot, Rhett Butler. In April 1861, when she is sixteen, civil war breaks out and Tara is at risk. Though Scarlett has led a previously pampered existence at Tara, she grows strong and courageous and ready to defend Tara and her family from the Yankees at any cost.
Scarlett O’Hara is described by Mitchell as small in stature with startling eyes and a heart shaped face. In an age where women were expected to be submissive and ladylike, Scarlett not only rises up to save her family and family home from war, she also at one point runs two sawmills. She also drinks corn whiskey.
In Chapter 24 of Gone with the Wind, Scarlett O’Hara tries to think about how she will save Tara and how she must first try to get enough food for her family in Tara. About Her He realizes that it is up to her to help her family and remembers her strong ancestors. She realizes that these mighty ancestors “all suffered crushing misfortunes and were not crushed.” Mitchell tells us that Scarlett gains confidence and strength from her ancestors in her line: “All those dark people whose blood ran through her veins seemed to move quietly in the moonlit room.”
At the age of nineteen, Scarlett is a strong woman who considers herself too strong for charity even though she is a widow with a small child. She gets through every day the best she can and one of Scarlett’s most famous lines is “Tomorrow is another day.” She is sometimes torn between her love for Ashley and Rhett. She is headstrong and powerful, yet she even comes close to not getting the man she realizes she wants.
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