Gone With The Wind makes me :headdesk:
Sep. 12th, 2005 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieReally, one of the most frustrating things about that book (and movie) is that ambiguous ending. Will she get him back? Will he let her? What? It bugged me when I first read the book (in tandem with my Mom) at 12. It bugs me now, 15+ years later. I need to know, and no, the atrocious "Scarlett" is not a good answer.
You just reread the whole damn book hoping for the two of them to get their act together at the same time and of course it never happens. There are two moments especially that drive me up the wall.
The first is the "morning after" (well, in the book it's a day+ after, isn't it?), after the whole "carry her to bed and make passionate love to her till morning" scene. Because this is totally Rhett's effort, in his severely messed-up way, to do the best he can and be the best lover ever and really try to please her and maybe that way she'll forget about Ashley and he can show her through his body what he can never say to her (yes, the two of them could keep shrinks happy for years) and the awful thing is it works. She is totally into him (OK, bad choice of words) after that, but then he comes back and....argh!
Basically, I want to take the two of them and smash their heads against the wall. As in "Can't you tell he is shaking in his shoes?" and "can't you tell she is devastated because she thinks you left her bed to go to Belle?" Argh! Especially since he tells her at the end that if she made any move at that point, he would have fallen to his knees and kissed her feet. Argh! I love my angst, but when it has a happy ending, dammit!
And of course the whole miscarriage scene. When she wants him and calls for him but there isn't anyone to hear her, and meanwhile he is falling apart because she doesn't want him (btw, Clark Gable crying? Hot). I remember yelling at the book at that point :D Seriously, this is enough to make you want to read "Scarlett." Almost.
You just reread the whole damn book hoping for the two of them to get their act together at the same time and of course it never happens. There are two moments especially that drive me up the wall.
The first is the "morning after" (well, in the book it's a day+ after, isn't it?), after the whole "carry her to bed and make passionate love to her till morning" scene. Because this is totally Rhett's effort, in his severely messed-up way, to do the best he can and be the best lover ever and really try to please her and maybe that way she'll forget about Ashley and he can show her through his body what he can never say to her (yes, the two of them could keep shrinks happy for years) and the awful thing is it works. She is totally into him (OK, bad choice of words) after that, but then he comes back and....argh!
Basically, I want to take the two of them and smash their heads against the wall. As in "Can't you tell he is shaking in his shoes?" and "can't you tell she is devastated because she thinks you left her bed to go to Belle?" Argh! Especially since he tells her at the end that if she made any move at that point, he would have fallen to his knees and kissed her feet. Argh! I love my angst, but when it has a happy ending, dammit!
And of course the whole miscarriage scene. When she wants him and calls for him but there isn't anyone to hear her, and meanwhile he is falling apart because she doesn't want him (btw, Clark Gable crying? Hot). I remember yelling at the book at that point :D Seriously, this is enough to make you want to read "Scarlett." Almost.
