Scarlett O’Hara

Scarlett OHara (full name Katie Scarlett Rollibard OHara Hamilton Kennedy Butler) is the protagonist in Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel deceased with the Wind and in the later consider of the same name. She also is the of import character in the 1970 musical Scarlett and the 1991 book Scarlett, a sequel to asleep(p) with the Wind that was written by Alexandra Ripley and adapted for a television mini-series in 1994. During early drafts of the original novel, Mitchell referred to her heroine as Pansy, and did not decide on the name Scarlett until just before the novel went to print.Scarlett OHara is not beautiful in a conventional sense, as indicated by Margaret Mitchells opening line, but a charming southerly belle who grows up on a Clayton County, Georgia plantation named after Tara in the years before the American Civil War. Scarlett is depict as being sixteen years old at the eructation of the Civil War in April 1861, which would put her approximate wear image in early 1845 1. She is the oldest of three daughters. Her two younger sisters are the unoccupied and whiny Susan Elinor (Suellen) and the promiscuous and kind Caroline Irene (Carreen).Her mother also gave birth to three younger sons, who were all named Gerald Jr. and died as infants. Selfish, shrewd and vain, Scarlett inherits the watertight will of her Irish father Gerald OHara, but also desires to please her well-bred, gentle French American mother Ellen Robillard, from a good and well value Savannah, Georgia family. Scarlett believes shes in love with Ashley Wilkes, her aristocratic neighbor, but when his engagement to low and mild-mannered Melanie Hamilton is announced, she marries Melanies brother, Charles Hamilton, out of spite.Her new husband dies early in the warfare of the pox, and Tara falls into the marauding hands of the Yankees. In the face of hardship, the spoiled Scarlett uncharacteristically shoulders the troubles of her family and friends, and eventually the not-so-grieving widow marries her sisters beau, Frank Kennedy, in order to get money to pay the taxes on and save her familys beloved home. Her practical nature leads to a willingness to step on anyone who doesnt have her familys best interests at heart, including her own sister. single of the most richly developed female characters of the time on film and in literature, she repeatedly challenges the prescribed womens roles of her time. As a result, she becomes very dislike by the people of Atlanta, Georgia. Scarletts ongoing internal conflict between her feelings for the Southern gentleman Ashley and her attraction to the sardonic, opportunistic Rhett Butlerwho becomes her third husbandembodies the everyday position of The South in the Civil War era.