An Interview with Scarlett

In an interview with Margret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind's heroine Scarlett O'Hara.


What would you say was your greatest struggle throughout the novel?

-“Well, although I had to uphold the irritating social standards, escape from Atlanta while it was under attack, fight off starvation and the carpetbaggers, I think the worst part was not being able to posses Ashley Wilkes. I got him to kiss me once and I am quite sure that he loved me but he wouldn’t be unfaithful to that mousey Melanie. I always figure out a way to get what I wanted except for when it came to him.”

How did you feel when you returned to Tara after Atlanta had been attacked?

- “Extremely overwhelmed. After we got back into the county we found most of the other plantations burned to the ground. Tara fortunately was still ok even though it had been looted and all the Negros had been run off. To top it off , I found my mother had died from typhoid and Suellen and Careen were about to join her and I found that my father had gone insane. I realized that from that moment on I couldn’t depend on anyone except for myself and I vowed that I would never go hungry again.”

How do you feel about Rhett Bultler?

“He is a rich swindler which I hate more often than not but after he left me I finally realized that I was in live with hi. He is the wealthiest, smartest, most un-southern man around and we fight constantly. He is the only one who ever can get the best of me and he is the only one who isn’t afraid of me.