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HelpRe: Scarlett?
in reply to a message by Cassandra113
I find it trashy. I loved the book / movie "Gone with the Wind." But I can't take a romance novel heroine's name* seriously. Plus, it always bugged me that the color scarlet was misspelled.
* I love Melanie because it exists outside the four corners of the book in my mind. Scarlett is so tied to Scarlett O'Hara and that's why I can't get the association out of my head. I formed this opinion way before the lovely Ms Johannsen (sp?) became famous and so it's carved in stone in my head.
* I love Melanie because it exists outside the four corners of the book in my mind. Scarlett is so tied to Scarlett O'Hara and that's why I can't get the association out of my head. I formed this opinion way before the lovely Ms Johannsen (sp?) became famous and so it's carved in stone in my head.
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Aack! You insult! Gone With the Wind is not a romance novel. It's an historical novel. It does not have a formulaic plot, there is no illicit sex (just a little illicit kissing), and no graphic sex scenes. Its historical scope is much wider than a romance novel's. Its "love story" is completely atypical of a romance novel's in that the heroine is not in love with the hero until the very end of the book, wastes her attention on a weakling, and there is no happy ending.
I don't say it's great literature, but it's not a romance novel.
I don't say it's great literature, but it's not a romance novel.
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