Day 9: Favorite female character in a drama - Scarlett O’Hara
“Oh, Ashley, when will you stop seeing both sides of questions? No one ever gets anywhere seeing both sides.”
“If there’s one thing in the world that gives me more amusement than anything else,” he remarked, it’s the sight of your mental struggles when a matter of principle is laid up against something practical like money. Of course, I know the practical in you will always win, but I keep hanging around to see if your better nature won’t triumph some day. And when that day comes I shall pack my bags and leave Atlanta forever. There are too many women whose better natures are always triumphing…”
Challenge Favourite Female Characters
4) Scarlett O’Hara
“I wanted to play Scarlett O’hara from the first time I read the book. That was in London when I was appearing in a flop play. I fell in love with the novel and gave the rest of the cast copies of the book as opening night presents. I told them, ‘If I ever go to Hollywood, it will be to play Gone with the Wind.’ They all laughed and said I was crazy.”
“Did it ever occur to you that I loved you as much as a man can love a woman? Loved you for years before I finally got you? During the war I’d go away and try to forget you, but I couldn’t and I always had to come back. After the war I risked arrest, just to come back and find you. I cared so much to believe I would have killed Frank Kennedy if he hadn’t died when he did. I loved you but I couldn’t let you know it. You’re so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.”
