Gone with the wind - Rhett does go back doesn't he?

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Just watched this again and a bit meh at the bits that we would now think of as a bit rapy. BUT Scarlett starts as the spoiled little mistress but becomes so strong and fearless - and much as she hankers after Ashley is so supportive of Melanie. She rescues Melanie, takes hold of Tara, recreating the plantation, she builds Frank's business (albeit she 'stole' him from her sister) and she does initially respond to Rhett. I really think if Rhett had played it differently - treated her as an equal maybe - things would have played out differently. Her lying distraught on a staircase doesn't fit with the strong woman she became. Am I overthinking this?

Problem is, if you were rhetts mate you'd be telling him to leave her. However, she determines to get him back and as the whole point of the film is to showcase her strength but teach her a lesson in humility, I think we can assume she gets her reward.

There was a sequel written but it was by another author.

The sequel is called scarlet and is a cracking read.

Read the sequel, there's lots more back and forth.

I might give it a go then, I'm never quite sure about the whole using other author's characters thing. One man's fanfiction is another man's plagiarism etc. And Death comes to Pemberley was awful imo. But a recommendation is another kettle of fish 😂

I don't think he does. He doesn't play into Scarlett's hands the way many men do - he's as strong-minded as she is, and I can't help thinking that the end is a door-slam moment for him. He's tried and he's tried, and he's not willing to waste more energy on her.

That's how I've always read him, anyway.

No, he doesn't go back because he doesn't give a damn.

Seeing as that's where Margaret Mitchell left it, you can believe whatever you want!

He was the one man with whom she couldn't get her own way so I doubt he would go back.

Nah..."Frankly my dear..." was clearly the 1930s "Bye, Felicia!"
He was never coming back.

Her number one love was always Tara.
Rhett was a "nice to have", she never needed a man for personal completeness (just money, cos patriarchy).

Tara was her happy ending and she got it.

I don't think he would go back, she had pushed him past his limit

Lol @Kashali

No I think he was done.

Whether she spend a few years chasing him or he just left the entire area and move on - I'm not sure but he was very much done.

They get back together and have a kid who ends up dying.
Scarlett moves to Ireland and becomes a Saint/Saviour there.
Rhett follows her.
They end up having another kid.

The sequel is awful, don’t read it if you enjoyed Gone With The Wind. Tripe, gave my copy of ‘Scarlett’ away.

If you think the book is bad - wait til you watch the movie!

I read an article about the making of the film, and it said there was loads of debate about the weather at the end. If it was sunny, people would feel optimism for the relationship; if it was rainy the opposite. That's why it's foggy; it's kind of ambiguous.

no, I don’t think he went back. She realised too late she loved him but Rhett had had his fill of her, all that hankering after ‘Ashly, Ashly!’ so he left...and quite right too.

I think he won't. In the book he becomes old from being with her and her treatment of him. It is made pretty clear that he just can't take it anymore. As for supporting Melanie, it is simply to keep Ashley close. At one stage Ashley is offered a job in a New York bank and Scarlett throws a fit so they stay, causing Melanie to list the things Scarlett has done for them. She lies about her sister falling in love with someone else, steals her fiance, ruins the reputation of the lumber mill by selling sub-standard wood, goes where she shouldn't in the name of business so her husband (and his KKK friends!) defend her honour and he's killed. She only asks after Ashley. She only wants Ashley because she can't have him, anything she does it is only for her own purposes. When Melanie dies she realizes that Ashley did love Melanie and she loses all interest in him, unfortunately at the same time Rhett sees that she never loved him. He wanted to spoil her, to soften the hard edge that the war had created in her personality or at least give Bonnie that life. Then Bonnie died and there was no future for them. As he said he had seen eyes as hard as hers only over a duelling pistol. She hurt him too deeply.
The estate of Margaret Mitchell was not happy with the follow up novel. They chose her but should have kept some rights as to how the novel would progress.

If I were him I'd have lost patience with her long ago.

In answer to a thread someone started the other day, Gone with the Wind is what a relationship between 2 narcissists looks like. 😉

What Pics said.

I loved the sequel(lots of frustrating twists and turns ,going back and forth,drama and a happy end ). However , I was quite young when I read it so I don't know how I'd feel about it now.

The sequel Scarlett is a total abomination and every copy should be rounded up and burned.
I love the film, but the book is one of my all time favourites.

The great thing about Scarlett is that she wasn't genteel, she had no taste, she was brash and forward and vulgar. She was also a total surviver, and that made her awesome.
So what if Rhett didn't come back.
She'd find someone else.
She just would.

The sequel is awful.

She loved Rhett as much as she is able to. They lost each other when Bonnie died.

One of my absolute favourite books and films.