Since we are on the subject... - Page 3

Miss Markie · #21 08-24-2006, 10:58 PM

Dear Rose,

It is definitely a good example of why the book is, well in this case, not necessarily better than the movie, but certainly one that must be enjoyed to really GET the movie, I think. You will not regret the time you spend with this book and you will grow to learn through reading it why the struggles of Scarlett O'Hara resonated so much with women who read that book during the Great Depression. The book cost, a the time it came out, about $3, and most books at that time cost about $1.00 to $1.50. People passed around used copies and some folks waited months to get to read it (like me and Mary Chesnut's Diary!).

Well, either everyone is on vacation or I have dug too deep into the trivia well for these questions, so I will answer them.

1. Cathleen Calvert went on to marry the Yankee overseer. She said all the boys of the county were dead, and she'd have no chance to marry otherwise. Like her father's marriage to the Yankee governess, it was considered a huge step down.
2. The two older Tarleton boys were Tom and Boyd.
3. They were just expelled out of the University of Georgia, the 4th such institution to do so.
4. Their manservant/groom was Jeems.
5. Honey Wilkes, who Charles Hamilton was supposed to marry, and India Wilkes, who was hopelessly in love with Stuart Tarleton.

Miss Amy · #22 08-26-2006, 10:53 AM

OK - why was Prissy to be Scarlets lady's maid?

Miss Amy

blue_zouave · #23 08-26-2006, 08:11 PM

Scarlett begged her father to buy Prissy as well as Dilcey, so Dilcey wouldn't be "pinin' fo her chile." Therefore, Prissy became Scarlett's "lady's maid."

Interesting take on the slaves in this book... the happy folk who willingly stayed with their masters after the war, and were "Confedruts, same as them" (quote from Mammy.) In the film version, the filmmakers trod very lightly on the race issue for the times, and edited out some scenes and words deemed offensive (such as "darky" and a scene with Prissy eating watermelon.)

Sorry for not stepping up to the questions, things are busy here in the Golden West!

Zou

Miss Markie · #24 08-27-2006, 01:14 AM

The interesting thing I remembered from my first time of reading the book and seeing the movie is that the most of the blacks, and most assuredly Mammy, were portrayed as being a lot smarter than a lot of the white folks around them. I remember being in awe of the Mammy character, and how she was the one person who could match Scarlett.