WEBVTT 00:00:01.229 --> 00:00:04.429 Hi everybody, welcome back to Fiddle Dee Dee. 00:00:04.610 --> 00:00:07.849 Today we're going to be talking about one of 00:00:07.849 --> 00:00:12.349 the authorized sequels, Rhett Butler's People. 00:00:12.890 --> 00:00:14.949 And the reason we're going to be talking about 00:00:14.949 --> 00:00:18.230 this is that I just finished it. I tried to read 00:00:18.230 --> 00:00:22.309 it a really, really long time ago, like years 00:00:22.309 --> 00:00:26.679 ago, and I did read... most of it, I guess, but 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:28.500 I didn't really know anything that happened in 00:00:28.500 --> 00:00:30.820 the middle. I just read kind of the beginning 00:00:30.820 --> 00:00:34.280 and the end. So this time around, I actually 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:39.240 read the book and I have some thoughts about 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:42.320 it. So before I get into this, I'm just going 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.359 to say this is probably going to be my most subjective 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:51.649 episode, as far as I know, because I didn't like 00:00:51.649 --> 00:00:54.390 this book and I'm going to complain about it 00:00:54.390 --> 00:00:56.549 quite a bit. No offense to anybody who liked 00:00:56.549 --> 00:01:01.890 it but spoiler alert I was not a fan. So what 00:01:01.890 --> 00:01:04.450 I'm going to do is I'm first going to go through 00:01:04.450 --> 00:01:09.129 the entire plot and then I am going to talk about 00:01:09.129 --> 00:01:12.790 all of the problems I had with it. So, a little 00:01:12.790 --> 00:01:15.250 background first, actually. In case you don't 00:01:15.250 --> 00:01:19.230 know, this book was written by an author named 00:01:19.230 --> 00:01:25.750 Donald McCaig, and he was actually the publisher's 00:01:25.750 --> 00:01:29.849 third choice to write the sequel. Basically, 00:01:29.849 --> 00:01:33.650 the sequel Scarlet by Alexandra Ripley came out, 00:01:33.689 --> 00:01:41.799 and it was really unpopular. It was critically 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:47.079 panned. So they wanted to expunge that from their 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:50.019 record. So they tried to find someone else to 00:01:50.019 --> 00:01:51.659 write a different sequel. And they went through 00:01:51.659 --> 00:01:54.739 a couple different authors, including Pat Conroy, 00:01:54.780 --> 00:01:58.680 who wrote the preface to the most recent edition 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:02.569 of the book. Both of those fell through, so they 00:02:02.569 --> 00:02:05.590 had one last chance before contractually the 00:02:05.590 --> 00:02:08.590 Margaret Mitchell estate was allowed to shop 00:02:08.590 --> 00:02:11.490 the book to other publishers. So they found Donald 00:02:11.490 --> 00:02:15.289 McCaig, and they settled this idea of writing 00:02:15.289 --> 00:02:18.009 the book from Rhett's point of view, which was 00:02:18.009 --> 00:02:22.270 actually what Pat Conroy initially was going 00:02:22.270 --> 00:02:26.069 to do. So they found Donald McKay because he 00:02:26.069 --> 00:02:29.569 had written previous books about Southern life 00:02:29.569 --> 00:02:33.330 during the Civil War and had done well with those. 00:02:33.469 --> 00:02:36.849 But the problem with this guy is that when they 00:02:36.849 --> 00:02:40.650 found him, he had never read Gone with the Wind. 00:02:40.729 --> 00:02:42.889 He didn't even really know that much about it. 00:02:43.129 --> 00:02:46.569 So he had to go and read the whole thing to prepare. 00:02:46.990 --> 00:02:50.770 And then he ended up. writing the book based 00:02:50.770 --> 00:02:54.930 on an outline that his wife created. So his wife 00:02:54.930 --> 00:02:58.590 did a ton of research to write this book, but 00:02:58.590 --> 00:03:01.830 Donald McKaig just kind of went off of her outline. 00:03:02.030 --> 00:03:04.689 And you're going to kind of see this throughout 00:03:04.689 --> 00:03:08.610 the plot of this book because there are so many 00:03:08.610 --> 00:03:11.810 plot holes and so many inaccuracies, things that 00:03:11.810 --> 00:03:15.110 are just totally wrong. And the characters don't 00:03:15.110 --> 00:03:19.800 even really feel like themselves. Another thing 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:23.479 I wanted to say was that this book was marketed 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:26.199 as being Gone with the Wind from Rhett's point 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:29.240 of view. I would say it is still marketed that 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:31.039 way. That's still the way that people talk about 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:35.560 it. But I would like to say that that is really 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.879 not what the book is at all. The reason being, 00:03:38.939 --> 00:03:43.479 it has 500 pages, right? And also 60 chapters. 00:03:44.500 --> 00:03:48.229 So it's pretty long. It has almost the same amount 00:03:48.229 --> 00:03:50.810 of chapters as Gone with the Wind, but page length, 00:03:50.870 --> 00:03:56.330 it's only half the size. But out of those 60 00:03:56.330 --> 00:04:01.629 chapters, and I kept track, only 17 of them are 00:04:01.629 --> 00:04:04.590 actually from Rhett's point of view. The rest 00:04:04.590 --> 00:04:07.250 of the chapters are told from the point of view 00:04:07.250 --> 00:04:12.889 of mostly Rosemary Butler, Rhett's sister, sometimes 00:04:12.889 --> 00:04:17.829 Melanie. Sometimes Ashley. At one point, Bonnie. 00:04:17.930 --> 00:04:24.370 Sometimes it's Belle. Sometimes it's OCs. And 00:04:24.370 --> 00:04:27.370 quite a bit of the time, actually, it's Scarlet. 00:04:27.470 --> 00:04:29.930 I don't know why we go back to Scarlet's point 00:04:29.930 --> 00:04:33.790 of view so much, but we do. So that is kind of 00:04:33.790 --> 00:04:35.990 what to expect if you want to read this book 00:04:35.990 --> 00:04:38.569 and you don't want any spoilers. You just kind 00:04:38.569 --> 00:04:40.870 of want to know what you're getting into. Just 00:04:40.870 --> 00:04:44.790 know that this book is not really... Gone with 00:04:44.790 --> 00:04:48.230 the Wind from Rhett's point of view. If you think 00:04:48.230 --> 00:04:49.649 that's what it's going to be, you're going to 00:04:49.649 --> 00:04:52.949 be disappointed, I think. I don't really know. 00:04:53.129 --> 00:04:59.029 This book got middling reviews. It did a lot 00:04:59.029 --> 00:05:02.269 better review -wise than Scarlet did by Alexander 00:05:02.269 --> 00:05:06.500 Ripley. And then on Goodreads, it has a higher 00:05:06.500 --> 00:05:08.639 average rating than Scarlet. But personally, 00:05:08.860 --> 00:05:12.500 I am not convinced that this one is better than 00:05:12.500 --> 00:05:14.980 that book. I'll probably do a different episode 00:05:14.980 --> 00:05:19.519 on Ripley's Scarlet one day. But anyway, on to 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:23.180 Rhett Butler's people, the plot. And I don't 00:05:23.180 --> 00:05:24.860 know how long this is going to be. I might have 00:05:24.860 --> 00:05:27.220 to abridge it a little bit because I'm going 00:05:27.220 --> 00:05:28.899 to try to go through every single chapter and 00:05:28.899 --> 00:05:31.980 there are 60 chapters. Okay, so chapter one. 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:36.180 is from Rhett's point of view. It talks about 00:05:36.180 --> 00:05:39.139 how he was just expelled from West Point. He's 00:05:39.139 --> 00:05:42.079 going to fight a duel with Shad Watling, who 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:47.300 is his father's plantation's overseer's son. 00:05:47.540 --> 00:05:51.439 So the overseer of the Butler Plantation, which 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:54.680 is called Bruton or Broughton Plantation, something 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:58.079 like that, is named Isaiah Watling, which is 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:02.980 an important name. His son is Shad Watling. And 00:06:02.980 --> 00:06:05.819 Rhett is going to fight a duel with him because 00:06:05.819 --> 00:06:08.939 he compromised Belle or something like that. 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.279 So right away, this is already contradicting 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:14.300 Gone with the Wind. Because in Gone with the 00:06:14.300 --> 00:06:18.699 Wind, Rhett fought a duel with a lady's brother. 00:06:19.420 --> 00:06:24.079 But there's no way it was Belle. I mean, Belle 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:31.399 was like a fancy lady who lived in Atlanta. formerly 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:34.319 been of like this great family that would have 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:39.399 been brought up at some point but she's or not 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:42.680 like a great family but like not a prostitute 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:48.379 so already we are um combining these two characters 00:06:48.379 --> 00:06:51.360 the girl who Rhett was riding with in a buggy 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:53.019 and then it crashed and then he was late getting 00:06:53.019 --> 00:06:57.199 her home and then Belle Watling whom Rhett actually 00:06:57.199 --> 00:06:59.600 took as basically his mistress and was sleeping 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:02.220 with and such. Completely changes the story, 00:07:02.259 --> 00:07:04.339 completely changes the way Rhett explains it 00:07:04.339 --> 00:07:07.100 in the book, and doesn't really make a lot of 00:07:07.100 --> 00:07:10.300 sense when you think about it. But anyway, the 00:07:10.300 --> 00:07:15.170 chapter goes on. We see This flashback to Rhett's 00:07:15.170 --> 00:07:17.610 childhood, he was physically disciplined a lot 00:07:17.610 --> 00:07:20.750 by his father. At one point he ran away and there 00:07:20.750 --> 00:07:22.990 was like a hurricane and somebody saved him. 00:07:23.170 --> 00:07:25.490 And then he was punished because he had to work 00:07:25.490 --> 00:07:29.470 like a field hand on the rice plantation. But 00:07:29.470 --> 00:07:32.629 we never see Rhett at West Point. We don't see 00:07:32.629 --> 00:07:34.970 him get expelled. We're only told that he was 00:07:34.970 --> 00:07:38.269 expelled. So that's another thing to keep in 00:07:38.269 --> 00:07:40.470 mind. We are often told that things happen, but 00:07:40.470 --> 00:07:44.230 we don't really see them. Okay, I'm already able 00:07:44.230 --> 00:07:46.170 to tell this is going to be way too long because 00:07:46.170 --> 00:07:49.050 I wrote like two sentences for chapter one, but 00:07:49.050 --> 00:07:54.490 moving on. All right, chapter two through chapter 00:07:54.490 --> 00:07:58.410 eight are all from Rosemary Butler's point of 00:07:58.410 --> 00:08:01.449 view. So we move away from Rhett right after 00:08:01.449 --> 00:08:05.730 this first chapter. Rosemary talks about her 00:08:05.730 --> 00:08:08.629 thoughts on Rhett. We learn that Rhett fought 00:08:08.629 --> 00:08:11.370 the duel with Shad Watling and he killed him. 00:08:11.589 --> 00:08:13.790 But of course we don't see that happen, we just 00:08:13.790 --> 00:08:16.750 hear about it. Scarlet is mentioned for the first 00:08:16.750 --> 00:08:20.910 time in Chapter 2 by her aunt Eulalie, and they 00:08:20.910 --> 00:08:23.589 comment about how her name is really weird for 00:08:23.589 --> 00:08:26.029 some reason, which I think they also did in Scarlet 00:08:26.029 --> 00:08:29.949 by Ripley, so that's kind of weird. And then 00:08:29.949 --> 00:08:33.350 we see Rhett being disowned by his father because 00:08:33.350 --> 00:08:40.009 of the duel. Chapter three. Rosemary writes letters 00:08:40.009 --> 00:08:44.019 and talks to random people. Chapter four, Rhett 00:08:44.019 --> 00:08:47.600 is not around. He's off in Nicaragua, and he 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:49.779 sends a bunch of letters to Rosemary, and she 00:08:49.779 --> 00:08:52.600 never receives them. Now, do we actually see 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:55.899 Rhett's point of view on his travels? No. Even 00:08:55.899 --> 00:08:58.639 though he is very widely traveled, we don't actually 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.480 see any of that. We just hear about it in his 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:04.639 letters to Rosemary. And chapter five is his 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:07.279 letters to Rosemary. He's been hanging out with 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:12.129 Belle in New Orleans, too. Chapter six, we find 00:09:12.129 --> 00:09:15.750 out Langston Butler, who's the father, has been 00:09:15.750 --> 00:09:18.649 burning Rhett's letters. There's this scene with 00:09:18.649 --> 00:09:22.289 a slave sale. And then we move into this territory 00:09:22.289 --> 00:09:25.889 of Rosemary's love life, which ends up being 00:09:25.889 --> 00:09:28.809 a huge plot line throughout the rest of the book. 00:09:29.029 --> 00:09:33.850 So this guy named Andrew Ravenel, I think is 00:09:33.850 --> 00:09:37.309 how you say that, kisses her during the slave 00:09:37.309 --> 00:09:42.009 sale. which is a little controversial. Rhett's 00:09:42.009 --> 00:09:44.269 not in this chapter. And then in chapter seven, 00:09:44.429 --> 00:09:47.899 Rosemary... marries this guy named John Haynes 00:09:47.899 --> 00:09:51.039 and Andrew Ravenel marries somebody else. So 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:53.179 we get some love drama with her. I don't know 00:09:53.179 --> 00:09:55.759 why this was necessary, but it's going to become 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:58.639 really important. So chapter eight, Rosemary 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.360 regrets marrying John Haynes. She's still in 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:03.360 love with Andrew and they dance together at a 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.419 ball. And then Rhett shows up at the end of the 00:10:05.419 --> 00:10:07.580 ball and also dances with Rosemary because he's 00:10:07.580 --> 00:10:11.639 just there. Okay, Chapter 9. So Chapter 9 through 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:15.019 11, we are back to Rhett's point of view. So 00:10:15.019 --> 00:10:18.100 Chapter 9 is all about the barbecue. Rhett goes 00:10:18.100 --> 00:10:21.059 to the barbecue with Frank Kennedy, and we do 00:10:21.059 --> 00:10:23.399 see his point of view when he sees Scarlet for 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:26.080 the first time. But when we get to the library 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:28.860 scene, it's very much abridged, and we don't 00:10:28.860 --> 00:10:32.500 get a lot of description on how that is. So for 00:10:32.500 --> 00:10:35.039 the scenes that we actually do see taken straight 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:37.990 from Gone with the Wind, They are always like 00:10:37.990 --> 00:10:40.169 this in this book. They are always a lot shorter. 00:10:40.370 --> 00:10:43.409 We don't see a lot of Rhett's actual thoughts 00:10:43.409 --> 00:10:46.610 on what happens. We just kind of get this brief 00:10:46.610 --> 00:10:50.529 summary. And I get that typing out somebody else's 00:10:50.529 --> 00:10:54.070 writing almost word for word can be tedious and 00:10:54.070 --> 00:10:57.529 maybe it's unnecessary. But we also don't really 00:10:57.529 --> 00:11:00.370 see how Rhett feels for the most part. And that's 00:11:00.370 --> 00:11:02.889 what's the most disappointing thing about this 00:11:02.889 --> 00:11:05.730 book. But that's going to be a common theme. 00:11:06.980 --> 00:11:11.360 Then chapter 10, it's a year later. This chapter 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:17.899 is really weird. Rhett goes to Charleston, but 00:11:17.899 --> 00:11:20.620 then we go into Scarlett's point of view. So 00:11:20.620 --> 00:11:22.399 the beginning of the chapter was from Rhett's 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:24.440 point of view, but then as soon as Scarlett shows 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:27.740 up, we're in her point of view. And she meets 00:11:27.740 --> 00:11:30.980 Rhett in Charleston when she's visiting her aunt, 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:34.279 like when she was visiting him with, no, visiting 00:11:34.279 --> 00:11:36.879 with Wade. in Charleston before she ever went 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:39.279 to Atlanta. This is the first time she sees him 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:41.980 again after the library scene rather than at 00:11:41.980 --> 00:11:45.059 the bazaar and then the bazaar is never mentioned 00:11:45.059 --> 00:11:48.120 and it doesn't happen as far as I could tell 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:49.960 so we don't see Rhett's point of view on that 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:55.169 which was a very strange choice. Chapter 11, 00:11:55.450 --> 00:11:58.009 Rhett is hanging out with Rosemary. There's a 00:11:58.009 --> 00:12:00.529 brief flashback to when Rhett came home to Charleston 00:12:00.529 --> 00:12:03.850 for the first time. And Rhett confesses to Rosemary 00:12:03.850 --> 00:12:07.409 that he is in love with Scarlet. So we don't 00:12:07.409 --> 00:12:10.710 get to see any of Rhett's interactions with Scarlet 00:12:10.710 --> 00:12:14.269 in Atlanta that led to him falling in love with 00:12:14.269 --> 00:12:17.750 her. We just don't see any of that entire time 00:12:17.750 --> 00:12:23.580 period, basically. Chapter 12. is from Tazewell 00:12:23.580 --> 00:12:27.259 Watling's point of view. Tazewell is Rhett's 00:12:27.259 --> 00:12:33.019 son. Not Rhett's son. Belle's son. Sorry. who 00:12:33.019 --> 00:12:35.759 is mentioned in Gone with the Wind that Belle 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:38.320 has a son. And there's an implication he's Rhett's 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:42.179 son, so sorry I said that. But he's often called 00:12:42.179 --> 00:12:44.559 the bastard son, and there's some insight into 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:47.179 his early life. And then we also get some of 00:12:47.179 --> 00:12:49.620 Belle's point of view in her house and stuff. 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:52.399 But we don't get Rhett's point of view on Tazewell 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:56.580 or Rhett's point of view on Belle at any point. 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:00.980 Chapter 13. We're on to Melanie's point of view. 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:03.940 She talks about her childhood, her marriage, 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:06.860 and Scarlett's arrival in Atlanta. There's one 00:13:06.860 --> 00:13:08.679 point she's talking to Rhett and she's like, 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:12.700 you're a scoundrel, Rhett Butler. Even though 00:13:12.700 --> 00:13:15.139 Melanie never believed that about him. She always 00:13:15.139 --> 00:13:18.460 thought people were too hard on him. and then 00:13:18.460 --> 00:13:20.679 she thinks about how Rhett and Scarlett fight 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:23.279 all the time or bicker when they're around each 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:26.159 other and she says that Rhett would mock Scarlett's 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:29.279 coldness and leave angrily even though Rhett 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:32.840 never really showed his anger in any way until 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:36.460 his marriage to Scarlett and Rhett was really 00:13:36.460 --> 00:13:39.340 the one who was more bland and cold at the beginning 00:13:39.340 --> 00:13:43.120 and Scarlett was the hothead but moving on um 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.759 oh and even though we get Rhett's point of Melanie's 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:48.600 point of view in this chapter. We don't get Rhett's 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:52.740 point of view on Melanie. Chapter 14. It's now 00:13:52.740 --> 00:13:55.360 Rosemary's point of view again. She's having 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:58.179 kind of this emotional affair with Andrew Ravenel. 00:13:58.299 --> 00:14:02.139 And she's had a child named Meg. Chapter 15. 00:14:02.860 --> 00:14:05.679 Melanie's point of view again. She overhears 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:08.240 this conversation in which she finds out that 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:11.740 Scarlett never loved Charles. There's this point 00:14:11.740 --> 00:14:15.970 where... Scarlett loses Charles' sword and she's 00:14:15.970 --> 00:14:17.870 like looking for it and Rhett is helping her 00:14:17.870 --> 00:14:20.309 and Melanie's just listening to them and Scarlett's 00:14:20.309 --> 00:14:22.389 all, yeah, I didn't really care about him. And 00:14:22.389 --> 00:14:27.649 Melanie breaks down in tears. So, yeah. And then 00:14:27.649 --> 00:14:30.210 Corrine is mentioned and her name is misspelled. 00:14:30.230 --> 00:14:33.679 I just wanted to point that out. Chapter 16, 00:14:34.179 --> 00:14:36.419 Rosemary's point of view again. There's a bunch 00:14:36.419 --> 00:14:39.299 of stuff about the Civil War that I didn't care 00:14:39.299 --> 00:14:41.840 about. And then her daughter Meg dies because 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:46.659 of the war. Chapter 17, back to Rhett's point 00:14:46.659 --> 00:14:49.720 of view. We actually see him do some blockading, 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:52.879 which is good. He goes and talks to Rosemary, 00:14:53.059 --> 00:14:55.799 of course. He does that in every single one of 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:59.639 his chapters. And then there's this really infuriating 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:04.159 scene. He goes to Aunt Pitty's house to give 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:07.559 Scarlet the yellow silk scarf that he gives her 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:09.639 in the book, and she ends up changing it into 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:12.080 a sash for Ashley. It's very briefly mentioned 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:16.840 in the book. But he shows up dirty or something 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:19.720 like that, and Scarlet's all like, oh, Rhett, 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:22.279 you look disgusting. And he's like, oh, yeah, 00:15:22.340 --> 00:15:24.919 I smell bad, and my fingernails are dirty. Even 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:27.820 though Rhett in the book is mentioned to be really 00:15:27.820 --> 00:15:30.840 meticulous about... bathing and they mention 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:33.360 that in the jail scene he's like infuriated he 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:38.000 can't bathe but whatever and then he gives scarlet 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:41.860 the silk scarf and she's all like whatever thank 00:15:41.860 --> 00:15:46.299 you i guess even though We're at the point where 00:15:46.299 --> 00:15:48.980 luxuries are really hard to get, and Scarlet 00:15:48.980 --> 00:15:52.279 is known for loving presents, but it's just meant 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:54.879 to show how Scarlet doesn't appreciate him and 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:57.120 his gifts and stuff, even though none of this 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:00.740 happened like this, but whatever. Chapter 18, 00:16:00.899 --> 00:16:04.639 we get Andrew Ravenel's point of view for the 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:07.139 first time, and it's just a bunch of stuff about 00:16:07.139 --> 00:16:12.120 the Civil War. Chapter 19. Ashley's point of 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:15.360 view. So it's kind of about the Christmas furlough 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:20.360 when he comes home and he mentions that Scarlett 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:23.100 confessed her love to him, but it never mentions 00:16:23.100 --> 00:16:26.379 that they kissed, which also happened here. And 00:16:26.379 --> 00:16:28.940 then he has a conversation with Rhett and Rhett 00:16:28.940 --> 00:16:31.679 notices that the scarf has been converted into 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:35.059 a sash for Ashley. We don't see Rhett's point 00:16:35.059 --> 00:16:37.879 of view. You just kind of gather that that is 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:40.580 what he notices. So we don't get Rhett's point 00:16:40.580 --> 00:16:44.740 of view on Ashley, really, either. Chapter 20 00:16:44.740 --> 00:16:48.740 is Rosemary's point of view. More stuff about 00:16:48.740 --> 00:16:51.320 the Civil War and more of her relationship drama. 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:54.899 I'm not even going to go into it. Chapter 21 00:16:54.899 --> 00:16:58.860 is Rhett's point of view on the whole flight 00:16:58.860 --> 00:17:00.919 from Atlanta. And it's a lot like the library 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:04.720 scene at the barbecue. It's abridged. We see 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:06.980 them kiss, but we don't see Scarlett slapping 00:17:06.980 --> 00:17:10.329 him. It just ends before that point. And I'd 00:17:10.329 --> 00:17:15.549 like to point out that you never see Rhett asking 00:17:15.549 --> 00:17:18.490 Scarlett to be his mistress either. So that has 00:17:18.490 --> 00:17:22.009 been skipped in favor of Rosemary Butler and 00:17:22.009 --> 00:17:25.230 her relationship drama. On to the next chapter, 00:17:25.289 --> 00:17:27.869 it is Rosemary's point of view. Lots more Civil 00:17:27.869 --> 00:17:32.109 War stuff. And her husband, John Haynes, dies. 00:17:33.309 --> 00:17:39.670 Chapter 23 is Rhett's point of view. for a little 00:17:39.670 --> 00:17:44.430 bit. It talks about the Civil War. Tazewell Watling 00:17:44.430 --> 00:17:47.630 shows up. He's a soldier now. And then, of course, 00:17:47.650 --> 00:17:50.230 as soon as he shows up, it switches to his point 00:17:50.230 --> 00:17:52.369 of view. So we don't see Rhett's point of view 00:17:52.369 --> 00:17:56.529 on him, of course. So then part one ends. There 00:17:56.529 --> 00:17:58.849 are three parts to this book. So now we're on 00:17:58.849 --> 00:18:03.289 to part two. And I don't really know what differentiates 00:18:03.289 --> 00:18:07.470 these three parts, but whatever. So actually, 00:18:07.569 --> 00:18:09.369 I guess I do, because I think the civil work 00:18:09.369 --> 00:18:13.029 kind of ended at the end of part one. So chapter 00:18:13.029 --> 00:18:18.250 24, we have Scarlet's point of view on what happens 00:18:18.250 --> 00:18:23.029 at Terra, as if we didn't get a huge chunk of 00:18:23.029 --> 00:18:26.410 that in Gone with the Wind, as if almost the 00:18:26.410 --> 00:18:30.569 entirety of part three wasn't about that. We 00:18:30.569 --> 00:18:34.960 had to do a summary of... her point of view of 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:39.019 her hardships at Terra. But also there's this 00:18:39.019 --> 00:18:41.980 weird part where Andrew Ravenel shows up at Terra 00:18:41.980 --> 00:18:45.839 and he tells Scarlet that Rhett died, which I 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:47.900 don't know what the point of that was, but Scarlet 00:18:47.900 --> 00:18:50.119 thinks to herself that she's heartbroken, but 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:52.059 then she tries to deny it to herself that she 00:18:52.059 --> 00:18:56.349 really is. So I don't know. Chapter 25, Rhett 00:18:56.349 --> 00:18:58.490 goes home to see his family for the first time 00:18:58.490 --> 00:19:01.609 since he was disowned, and Rhett tells Rosemary 00:19:01.609 --> 00:19:05.190 that he and Scarlett are finished for some reason, 00:19:05.250 --> 00:19:08.549 even though that wasn't really what he was thinking 00:19:08.549 --> 00:19:11.950 at this point. And then we find out that a black 00:19:11.950 --> 00:19:15.609 man named Tunis is in jail. I don't know if I'm 00:19:15.609 --> 00:19:18.730 saying that right. It's T -U -N -I -S, so I'm 00:19:18.730 --> 00:19:23.859 just calling him Tunis. So chapter 26. We learn 00:19:23.859 --> 00:19:28.259 that Tunis is a slave or was a slave and that 00:19:28.259 --> 00:19:31.319 this young white woman accused him of attacking 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:36.039 her. Chapter 27 is from Rhett's point of view. 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:41.160 He goes out to save Tunis. I forget why he cares 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:45.180 about him, but he does. And on his way to save 00:19:45.180 --> 00:19:49.470 him, he meets Archie. So Archie is a character 00:19:49.470 --> 00:19:52.630 who only appeared in the book. He's this ex -convict 00:19:52.630 --> 00:19:56.049 who really hates black people. He doesn't like 00:19:56.049 --> 00:19:59.990 women either. And he went to jail because he 00:19:59.990 --> 00:20:02.109 murdered his wife, actually, because his wife 00:20:02.109 --> 00:20:06.630 cheated on him with his brother. And Archie's 00:20:06.630 --> 00:20:12.730 really just in the book to... kind of be a plot 00:20:12.730 --> 00:20:14.789 device for a couple things but he is a little 00:20:14.789 --> 00:20:17.829 bit of an interesting character but in this book 00:20:17.829 --> 00:20:20.950 he becomes a very big character and they give 00:20:20.950 --> 00:20:26.690 him the last name flit f -l -y -t -t -e i don't 00:20:26.690 --> 00:20:29.690 know if i'm saying that right either And almost 00:20:29.690 --> 00:20:32.109 every time he shows up, they refer to him as 00:20:32.109 --> 00:20:34.809 Archie Flit. Even though in the book, it was 00:20:34.809 --> 00:20:36.990 kind of a point that Archie didn't want anybody 00:20:36.990 --> 00:20:39.910 to know his last name or where he came from. 00:20:40.210 --> 00:20:45.089 But somehow we know now. So Rhett meets Archie 00:20:45.089 --> 00:20:47.430 and then he finds the white woman who accused 00:20:47.430 --> 00:20:52.349 Tunis. And she's a prostitute named Lisa. And 00:20:52.349 --> 00:20:54.930 she refuses to change her story for whatever 00:20:54.930 --> 00:20:57.490 reason. She's like this really down on her luck 00:20:57.490 --> 00:20:59.910 prostitute and Rhett knows her, I guess. But 00:20:59.910 --> 00:21:03.930 she just wants to get Tunis in trouble for some 00:21:03.930 --> 00:21:08.910 reason. So Tunis then talks to Rhett in jail 00:21:08.910 --> 00:21:12.069 and Tunis is like, I know all these other black 00:21:12.069 --> 00:21:14.869 men who were tortured before the mobs hanged 00:21:14.869 --> 00:21:17.910 them. So can you just kill me first before the 00:21:17.910 --> 00:21:20.549 mob does it so I don't get tortured? And Rhett 00:21:20.549 --> 00:21:23.630 agrees. And then chapter 28 is just Rhett getting 00:21:23.630 --> 00:21:27.109 sent to jail. Chapter 29 is Rhett talking to 00:21:27.109 --> 00:21:29.529 people in jail. So let's go back for a second. 00:21:30.950 --> 00:21:34.690 This is supposed to be the part in the book where 00:21:34.690 --> 00:21:37.089 Rhett is in jail because he killed a black man. 00:21:37.250 --> 00:21:40.049 And later on, after he gets out of jail, he does 00:21:40.049 --> 00:21:43.250 admit that he did it. And in the book, he says 00:21:43.250 --> 00:21:46.410 that he did it because the man was uppity to 00:21:46.410 --> 00:21:49.849 a white woman. So that shows Rhett's cruelty 00:21:49.849 --> 00:21:54.920 in the book. It shows that he can be racist and 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:58.799 that he doesn't really care about taking other 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:03.660 people's lives for really silly reasons. So this 00:22:03.660 --> 00:22:06.900 obviously turns that on its head and it spins 00:22:06.900 --> 00:22:10.460 it so that Rhett is now more of a good guy and 00:22:10.460 --> 00:22:13.759 he's doing a good deed. And I'm not really sure 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:17.500 why Donald McCaig chose to go that route. I think 00:22:17.500 --> 00:22:19.940 maybe he thought it would be harder to root for 00:22:19.940 --> 00:22:23.740 a main character who is racist now that, you 00:22:23.740 --> 00:22:27.380 know, times have changed a lot since 1930s, since 00:22:27.380 --> 00:22:30.200 Gone with the Wind was first published. So maybe 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:32.420 he wanted Rhett to be more sympathetic. He didn't 00:22:32.420 --> 00:22:35.920 think he could get away with it. But it is kind 00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:40.799 of... character assassination when you think 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:42.759 about it because Rhett isn't really supposed 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:45.640 to be that good of a person. And now he's just 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:49.220 really like everybody else. So that's a little 00:22:49.220 --> 00:22:52.799 bit odd. But I will say this is actually one 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:56.740 of the better chapters in the book because it 00:22:56.740 --> 00:22:59.720 takes something that was in Gone with the Wind 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:05.000 and it actually makes it so... the book is explaining 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:06.940 what happened from Rhett's point of view, which 00:23:06.940 --> 00:23:09.039 is what you would expect the book more to be. 00:23:09.759 --> 00:23:11.700 All I know is I thought it was one of the better 00:23:11.700 --> 00:23:16.819 chapters. But anyway, chapter 30 is the jail 00:23:16.819 --> 00:23:24.119 scene. And like the barbecue and like the one 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:26.839 other scene, the flight from Atlanta, it's very 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:31.109 much abridged. Oh, and Scarlett's name is misspelled 00:23:31.109 --> 00:23:32.769 at one point. I just wanted to point that out. 00:23:33.789 --> 00:23:38.369 Chapter 31, Away from Rattigan. We had a long 00:23:38.369 --> 00:23:41.170 stretch with him, but he's gone. There's a major 00:23:41.170 --> 00:23:45.250 time skip. Scarlett has now had Ella. And we're 00:23:45.250 --> 00:23:48.509 in Belle's point of view. Belle goes to visit 00:23:48.509 --> 00:23:52.509 Melanie. And then she goes to church. And there's 00:23:52.509 --> 00:23:57.140 all of this underlying subtext about how... Bella's 00:23:57.140 --> 00:23:59.119 convinced that now that Scarlett is married to 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:01.640 Frank and probably will be for the rest of her 00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:04.819 life, that Rhett is now going to marry her. And 00:24:04.819 --> 00:24:07.400 I didn't quite follow why she thinks this, but 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:12.440 oh well. So yeah, we don't see anything involving 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:16.660 Frank's and Scarlett's marriage before Ella was 00:24:16.660 --> 00:24:19.539 born. I'm not even going to say we don't see 00:24:19.539 --> 00:24:21.400 it from Rhett's point of view. We don't really 00:24:21.400 --> 00:24:24.200 see it from anybody's point of view. It's just 00:24:24.200 --> 00:24:27.890 skipped over. for some reason wasn't considered 00:24:27.890 --> 00:24:33.029 important chapter 32 rhett's father dies and 00:24:33.029 --> 00:24:36.589 he goes home for like three pages and rosemary 00:24:36.589 --> 00:24:39.890 now has a son and his name is lewis valentine 00:24:39.890 --> 00:24:42.410 and i guess he's named after the grandfather 00:24:42.410 --> 00:24:46.390 who was the pirate that rhett supposedly takes 00:24:46.390 --> 00:24:49.049 after but every time they say this kid's name 00:24:49.049 --> 00:24:51.230 they are not going to call him lewis they're 00:24:51.230 --> 00:24:56.220 going to call him lewis valentine so Get used 00:24:56.220 --> 00:24:59.920 to that if you're going to read this book. Okay, 00:25:00.019 --> 00:25:02.960 chapter 33. We're on to Belle's point of view. 00:25:03.220 --> 00:25:06.140 We see the clan raid where Frank dies. Well, 00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:07.859 we don't see it. We just see that it happens. 00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:12.359 We do see a little bit of the trial where Belle 00:25:12.359 --> 00:25:16.380 testifies in favor of the men who are in trouble. 00:25:18.539 --> 00:25:21.700 Even so, I feel like we saw more of this trial 00:25:21.700 --> 00:25:24.180 in the book, even though in the book we didn't 00:25:24.180 --> 00:25:26.019 see it directly. I mean, in Gone with the Wind, 00:25:26.019 --> 00:25:29.960 the book. And then Rhett goes to propose to Scarlet, 00:25:29.980 --> 00:25:32.559 although we do not see the proposal. We just 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:34.940 hear that he's going to go do that, but we don't 00:25:34.940 --> 00:25:38.589 actually see it from his point of view. Chapter 00:25:38.589 --> 00:25:41.410 34, we're still in Belle's point of view. Rhett 00:25:41.410 --> 00:25:44.130 has written her a long letter about how he went 00:25:44.130 --> 00:25:49.609 to go visit Tazewell, known as Taz. And Taz was 00:25:49.609 --> 00:25:51.890 apparently convinced Rhett was going to marry 00:25:51.890 --> 00:25:54.589 Belle, which Rhett is like, ha ha, oh my gosh, 00:25:54.589 --> 00:25:57.170 Belle, isn't that so silly? And then Rhett reveals 00:25:57.170 --> 00:26:00.029 in the letter that he got engaged to Scarlet. 00:26:00.569 --> 00:26:04.390 So that's all Belle's point of view. Chapter 00:26:04.390 --> 00:26:09.930 35, I hated. It's Rhett and Scarlett get married. 00:26:10.390 --> 00:26:13.450 There's this really stupid scene where Mrs. Merriweather 00:26:13.450 --> 00:26:17.250 is like sarcastically admiring her ring, even 00:26:17.250 --> 00:26:19.309 though Mrs. Merriweather is this really blunt 00:26:19.309 --> 00:26:21.230 and forthright character and she wouldn't have 00:26:21.230 --> 00:26:25.829 done that, even sarcastically. At Scarlett and 00:26:25.829 --> 00:26:29.210 Rhett's wedding, Rosemary and Melanie meet and 00:26:29.210 --> 00:26:33.549 then they become friends instantly and start 00:26:33.549 --> 00:26:35.789 writing letters to each other throughout pretty 00:26:35.789 --> 00:26:38.240 much the rest of the book. And then, this is 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:40.140 a pretty long chapter, we see the New Orleans 00:26:40.140 --> 00:26:44.359 honeymoon. From Scarlett's point of view, we 00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:48.220 already saw Scarlett's point of view on the honeymoon 00:26:48.220 --> 00:26:52.359 in Gone with the Wind. We got a whole long chapter 00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:55.059 on all of her thoughts on the honeymoon. But 00:26:55.059 --> 00:26:57.500 now we've gotten it again in Rhett Butler's People, 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:01.059 but completely rewritten. It's like most of it 00:27:01.059 --> 00:27:04.500 is just her talking about... their marital relations 00:27:04.500 --> 00:27:07.859 and how enjoyable it is, which doesn't track 00:27:07.859 --> 00:27:09.960 with the characters. And we don't see Rhett's 00:27:09.960 --> 00:27:12.720 point of view on the honeymoon at all. So this 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:16.019 one was pretty frustrating. And it was a relief 00:27:16.019 --> 00:27:19.599 in Chapter 36 to go back to Tazewell Watling. 00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:24.339 So he has become this successful person in New 00:27:24.339 --> 00:27:27.880 Orleans, and he spends the butler's honeymoon 00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:31.119 spying on them, like a creep for some reason. 00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:36.299 Chapter 37, there's a massive time skip and Bonnie 00:27:36.299 --> 00:27:39.880 is alive and she is almost two years old. And 00:27:39.880 --> 00:27:43.140 then we see Scarlet kick Rhett out of her bedroom, 00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:49.200 which is weird because Rhett was kicked out of 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:53.029 Scarlet's bedroom. As soon as Scarlet was able 00:27:53.029 --> 00:27:56.410 to go out again after giving birth. So Bonnie 00:27:56.410 --> 00:27:58.690 should not be almost two years old if this is 00:27:58.690 --> 00:28:01.089 when this is happening. And we don't see Rhett's 00:28:01.089 --> 00:28:03.349 point of view on Bonnie being born either or 00:28:03.349 --> 00:28:06.710 Scarlet's pregnancy or anything like that. Okay, 00:28:06.809 --> 00:28:10.289 chapter 38 is from Rosemary's point of view again. 00:28:10.509 --> 00:28:13.269 Somehow I missed this, but she's married to Andrew 00:28:13.269 --> 00:28:16.930 Ravenel now. And Melanie writes Rosemary this 00:28:16.930 --> 00:28:19.509 really long letter about how she knows that... 00:28:20.089 --> 00:28:24.750 Ashley's always loved Scarlet and then Rhett 00:28:24.750 --> 00:28:27.569 makes Scarlet sell or trick Scarlet into selling 00:28:27.569 --> 00:28:30.210 the sawmills to Ashley even though that's not 00:28:30.210 --> 00:28:32.849 supposed to happen until much later and I thought 00:28:32.849 --> 00:28:35.609 initially he was just skipping so much of the 00:28:35.609 --> 00:28:38.990 book and I was like wait a second but actually 00:28:38.990 --> 00:28:42.809 this event is just happening much earlier for 00:28:42.809 --> 00:28:47.390 no reason at all then Rhett comes home or goes 00:28:47.390 --> 00:28:50.970 what does he do hold on Oh yeah, he does go home 00:28:50.970 --> 00:28:54.309 for Christmas. And I think there's something 00:28:54.309 --> 00:28:57.869 where Rosemary breaks up with Andrew because 00:28:57.869 --> 00:29:01.970 he's in the clan. I think that's what's happening 00:29:01.970 --> 00:29:04.630 with her. I tried not to pay much attention to 00:29:04.630 --> 00:29:11.630 her. Chapter 39 is both Scarlet and Rhett's point 00:29:11.630 --> 00:29:14.190 of view. And it's just a bunch of random moments 00:29:14.190 --> 00:29:17.029 in their failing marriage with them fighting 00:29:17.029 --> 00:29:22.099 and stuff. Chapter 40, Rosemary's point of view. 00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:25.720 Andrew gets arrested, and then Mrs. Butler dies. 00:29:26.980 --> 00:29:30.539 She's supposed to be alive when Bonnie dies. 00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:33.099 At the end of Gone with the Wind, she comes to 00:29:33.099 --> 00:29:35.559 the funeral, but this chapter just decides to 00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:40.559 kill her off for some reason. Chapter 41. is 00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:43.460 Andrew's point of view because we care so much 00:29:43.460 --> 00:29:46.700 about him he gets out of jail but Rosemary doesn't 00:29:46.700 --> 00:29:49.099 let him come home and then a bunch of random 00:29:49.099 --> 00:29:51.680 skip skippable stuff happens and then Andrew 00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:56.940 shoots himself sadly I guess um chapter 42 Belle's 00:29:56.940 --> 00:30:00.059 point of view her father Isaiah Watling shows 00:30:00.059 --> 00:30:03.980 up and he slaps Belle across the face and then 00:30:03.980 --> 00:30:08.329 he gives her some package Chapter 43, Melanie's 00:30:08.329 --> 00:30:11.190 point of view. So she's preparing for Ashley's 00:30:11.190 --> 00:30:14.309 birthday party and she's writing a letter to 00:30:14.309 --> 00:30:16.849 Rosemary as she does this. And she tells Rosemary 00:30:16.849 --> 00:30:19.049 how much she wants to have relations with her 00:30:19.049 --> 00:30:21.410 husband, but she doubts whether he really loves 00:30:21.410 --> 00:30:23.609 her, but she's just yearning for him. Because 00:30:23.609 --> 00:30:25.829 I'm sure Melanie, you know, would totally put 00:30:25.829 --> 00:30:28.859 that into a letter. And she also talks a lot 00:30:28.859 --> 00:30:31.119 about Scarlet and Rhett, so she's gossiping about 00:30:31.119 --> 00:30:34.599 Rhett to his sister. Again, very proper. About 00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:36.480 how they fight all the time, the only thing that 00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:39.940 unites them anymore is Bonnie, which really wasn't 00:30:39.940 --> 00:30:43.019 even true in Gone with the Wind, because Bonnie 00:30:43.019 --> 00:30:46.680 was a child they both loved dearly, but was also 00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:49.160 kind of a wedge between them who caused conflict. 00:30:49.259 --> 00:30:54.829 So that's not even really true. Chapter 44. is 00:30:54.829 --> 00:30:58.410 a brief page about Scarlett and Ashley being 00:30:58.410 --> 00:31:01.730 caught in the mills from Scarlett's point of 00:31:01.730 --> 00:31:05.529 view. So we don't get to see Archie tell Rhett, 00:31:05.569 --> 00:31:08.029 which I was actually kind of looking forward 00:31:08.029 --> 00:31:10.329 to, and it would have made sense to include it 00:31:10.329 --> 00:31:13.250 because Archie's a character in this. Chapter 00:31:13.250 --> 00:31:16.309 45 is from Rhett's point of view. We see the 00:31:16.309 --> 00:31:20.049 staircase scene, but it's abridged, and we see 00:31:20.049 --> 00:31:22.490 Rhett wake up in the morning, and he thinks to 00:31:22.490 --> 00:31:26.500 himself that... He is just like his father. So 00:31:26.500 --> 00:31:28.980 I don't know. I thought that line was actually 00:31:28.980 --> 00:31:32.539 somewhat interesting. But who knows? Chapter 00:31:32.539 --> 00:31:38.259 46 is Bonnie's point of view. And Bonnie apparently 00:31:38.259 --> 00:31:41.900 witnessed her father carrying Scarlet up the 00:31:41.900 --> 00:31:44.279 stairs because that's what happens in books like 00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:46.220 these. Everybody has to know about everything. 00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:49.799 There can't be any secrets, any ignorance to 00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:53.380 anything. There was this brief line about Big 00:31:53.380 --> 00:31:56.579 Sam working at the Atlanta house, which bugged 00:31:56.579 --> 00:31:59.039 me because he never worked there. He was always 00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:04.119 at Tara. Or he was living in the shantytown, 00:32:04.180 --> 00:32:06.960 but he was never at Scarlett's Atlanta house. 00:32:07.819 --> 00:32:11.559 Then Rhett takes Bonnie away to go travel and 00:32:11.559 --> 00:32:15.940 he introduces her to Belle. And Bonnie sits on 00:32:15.940 --> 00:32:20.430 Belle's lap. And I just found this very weird. 00:32:20.490 --> 00:32:23.190 I know Rhett likes and admires Belle, but just 00:32:23.190 --> 00:32:26.789 before he went on this trip, he threatened to 00:32:26.789 --> 00:32:30.450 break Scarlett's neck because she insinuated 00:32:30.450 --> 00:32:35.150 that he would take Bonnie to Belle's house. So 00:32:35.150 --> 00:32:37.430 wouldn't that still have been fresh in his mind? 00:32:37.549 --> 00:32:40.549 Wouldn't he not have wanted Bonnie to be around 00:32:40.549 --> 00:32:43.130 Belle with that accusation she just flung at 00:32:43.130 --> 00:32:46.759 him? Why would he risk Bonnie's reputation when 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:48.940 they could potentially be seen together when 00:32:48.940 --> 00:32:51.099 he was so obsessed with Bonnie's reputation? 00:32:51.380 --> 00:32:54.559 And about the reputation thing, the only time 00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:57.099 that that was ever mentioned in Rhett Butler's 00:32:57.099 --> 00:33:00.779 People was Melanie writing a letter to Rosemary. 00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:03.420 She talks about how Bonnie has made Rhett respectable. 00:33:03.779 --> 00:33:05.819 There's nothing on Rhett's point of view about 00:33:05.819 --> 00:33:08.279 becoming respectable for the sake of Bonnie. 00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:12.230 So that wasn't in here either. Anyway. Still 00:33:12.230 --> 00:33:15.069 chapter 46, they're traveling, and when they 00:33:15.069 --> 00:33:19.069 meet somebody, I forget who, Bonnie mentions 00:33:19.069 --> 00:33:22.390 she already has her pony, which is also wrong. 00:33:22.450 --> 00:33:25.869 It's more similar to the movie than the book. 00:33:27.490 --> 00:33:31.750 Chapter 47, Belle and Rhett go visit Tazewell, 00:33:31.890 --> 00:33:37.769 and there's a plot. twist. We find out that Tazewell's 00:33:37.769 --> 00:33:41.990 father was not Rhett. It was Andrew Ravenel, 00:33:42.230 --> 00:33:46.730 Rosemary's husband. I don't know why this was 00:33:46.730 --> 00:33:52.250 a plot point, but I was kind of like, oh, okay, 00:33:52.369 --> 00:33:54.869 this is where we're going with this. So all of 00:33:54.869 --> 00:33:59.930 that teasing, all of that intrigue about Rhett 00:33:59.930 --> 00:34:03.710 having a bastard son, it ultimately wasn't true. 00:34:04.359 --> 00:34:11.079 um so yeah chapter 48 there is a time skip of 00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:15.340 a year and a month um melanie writes to rosemary 00:34:15.340 --> 00:34:18.880 about how she's pregnant and about how bonnie 00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:23.980 just died and melanie talks about she feels like 00:34:23.980 --> 00:34:28.340 she's going to die soon okay lots of problems 00:34:28.340 --> 00:34:33.679 here first of all The miscarriage. One of the 00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:39.599 most traumatizing and plot -changing scenes in 00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:42.480 Gone with the Wind. It was forgotten. It did 00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:45.099 not happen. Scarlett does not get pregnant and 00:34:45.099 --> 00:34:47.340 have a miscarriage in Rhett Butler's People. 00:34:47.699 --> 00:34:50.280 So not only do we not see it from his point of 00:34:50.280 --> 00:34:54.440 view, it just didn't happen. We also do not see 00:34:54.440 --> 00:35:00.230 his point of view at all on Bonnie's death. I 00:35:00.230 --> 00:35:03.929 don't know why Donald McKaig didn't feel like 00:35:03.929 --> 00:35:07.489 writing that. It was literally one of the biggest 00:35:07.489 --> 00:35:12.050 moments for Rhett in the entire book, especially 00:35:12.050 --> 00:35:15.530 if you wanted to know anything about his psychology. 00:35:15.969 --> 00:35:18.429 I mean, he's having a mental break at this point, 00:35:18.489 --> 00:35:21.309 but we only hear about this in a letter that 00:35:21.309 --> 00:35:24.170 Melanie is writing to Rosemary, which again is 00:35:24.170 --> 00:35:26.650 pretty inappropriate for her to write to Rhett's 00:35:26.650 --> 00:35:30.960 sister. That is the route that he chose to go, 00:35:31.019 --> 00:35:33.400 just to throw it all into a letter. He clearly 00:35:33.400 --> 00:35:35.440 didn't want to write about Rhett or anything 00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:38.840 that he was feeling during his most emotionally 00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:45.360 turbulent times. So that's a big shame. Chapter 00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:50.940 49 is two pages from Rhett's point of view. Melanie 00:35:50.940 --> 00:35:54.530 dies. Rhett says he doesn't give a damn. And 00:35:54.530 --> 00:35:56.989 then chapter 50 is Rosemary's point of view. 00:35:57.070 --> 00:35:59.449 She goes to visit Rhett, who is for some reason 00:35:59.449 --> 00:36:03.449 at Twelve Oaks, and Rhett is hanging out at Melanie's 00:36:03.449 --> 00:36:06.389 grave, thinking about, you know, his failed marriage 00:36:06.389 --> 00:36:08.909 and everything. Then Scarlett and the kids show 00:36:08.909 --> 00:36:12.150 up for the funeral. So I don't know why Melanie 00:36:12.150 --> 00:36:16.130 is being buried at Twelve Oaks instead of in 00:36:16.130 --> 00:36:19.690 Atlanta, where she was born and raised, but that's 00:36:19.690 --> 00:36:23.269 what's happening here. Okay, I'm actually making 00:36:23.269 --> 00:36:26.650 pretty good time because we are now at part three. 00:36:27.250 --> 00:36:30.489 And throughout the entire rest of the book, the 00:36:30.489 --> 00:36:34.369 last ten chapters, we are not going to get Rhett's 00:36:34.369 --> 00:36:38.829 point of view ever again. But this is kind of 00:36:38.829 --> 00:36:41.389 the point of the book where things get really, 00:36:41.469 --> 00:36:46.769 really funny. So please stick with me. It's infuriating, 00:36:46.769 --> 00:36:53.159 but I actually laughed a lot. Chapter 51 is from 00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:56.320 Will Benton's point of view. Scarlett has sold 00:36:56.320 --> 00:36:59.099 her Atlanta house and moved everybody to Tara. 00:36:59.699 --> 00:37:02.920 And when I say everybody, I mean Rosemary Butler 00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:06.099 has also moved in. She is also living at Tara. 00:37:06.619 --> 00:37:10.039 Ashley has sold the sawmills and he moves back 00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:12.760 to Twelve Oaks. And to my understanding, they 00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:16.159 shouldn't have Twelve Oaks anymore. It was burned. 00:37:17.190 --> 00:37:20.869 And the property was lost to taxes, I believe. 00:37:21.489 --> 00:37:25.110 So I don't even know how that's possible. But 00:37:25.110 --> 00:37:30.530 then the books turns into like this mystery. 00:37:30.849 --> 00:37:33.489 So they have this prowler going around. Somebody 00:37:33.489 --> 00:37:35.929 cuts down all of the hams in the meat house and 00:37:35.929 --> 00:37:40.090 gets them all dirty. Then chapter 52, Tara is 00:37:40.090 --> 00:37:42.389 like going broke and somebody shoots some of 00:37:42.389 --> 00:37:45.539 their horses. Um, briefly in Scarlet's point 00:37:45.539 --> 00:37:48.139 of view, Ashley tries to propose to her, but 00:37:48.139 --> 00:37:50.019 Scarlet catches wind of that and she's like, 00:37:50.099 --> 00:37:52.559 no, no, no, no, no. And then Ashley takes the 00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:56.440 hint and leaves. So that happened. Um, then we 00:37:56.440 --> 00:37:59.079 get Rosemary's point of view. Her and Bo go to 00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:03.599 visit Ashley at 12 Oaks, um, and take care of 00:38:03.599 --> 00:38:06.420 him because Bo is living with Scarlet at Tara. 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:10.219 Then back to Scarlet's point of view, Uncle Henry 00:38:10.219 --> 00:38:13.980 comes to Tara and he tells her, that someone 00:38:13.980 --> 00:38:20.039 set fire to her Atlanta house. So I was a little 00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:21.699 confused on this point because I thought she 00:38:21.699 --> 00:38:24.719 sold the house, but maybe she just left it. But 00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:27.480 basically all of her stuff was burned is the 00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:29.800 way the book presents it. And she is getting 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:32.559 no insurance from any of it because the insurance 00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:38.480 company went bankrupt. So yeah, Scarlett's poor 00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:42.699 again. and she doesn't really do anything about 00:38:42.699 --> 00:38:45.079 it. She's just kind of in the fields at Terra 00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:50.300 again, rowing, hoeing the cotton, picking cotton 00:38:50.300 --> 00:38:53.940 or whatever she's doing. It's very weird. Oh, 00:38:53.980 --> 00:38:56.780 and there's a lot of stuff about Ella having 00:38:56.780 --> 00:39:00.840 seizures because she has epilepsy now, and that's 00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:03.840 just in there. I don't really know why. And then 00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:08.139 we find out that Isaiah Watling is the Prowler. 00:39:08.650 --> 00:39:13.590 Who has been bothering them? Chapter 53 is half 00:39:13.590 --> 00:39:16.989 a page, not even half of a page, of Scarlet sending 00:39:16.989 --> 00:39:21.610 Rhett a telegram to come home. Chapter 54 is 00:39:21.610 --> 00:39:25.829 Tazewell's point of view. He takes care of Rhett, 00:39:25.869 --> 00:39:29.170 who is really frail and pathetic now. He's apparently 00:39:29.170 --> 00:39:31.429 a shell of his former self. He's just been traveling 00:39:31.429 --> 00:39:35.070 the world and disintegrating. And at one point... 00:39:35.289 --> 00:39:39.469 um Taz loses track of him and he places an ad 00:39:39.469 --> 00:39:42.650 in the newspaper for a mentally disturbed man 00:39:42.650 --> 00:39:46.050 and he's checking all of the asylums and places 00:39:46.050 --> 00:39:50.469 like that to look for him um so that is what 00:39:50.469 --> 00:39:53.449 Rhett has been reduced to now since leaving Scarlet 00:39:53.449 --> 00:39:57.260 he has just become completely pathetic and totally 00:39:57.260 --> 00:40:00.980 lost himself and is just traveling and not caring 00:40:00.980 --> 00:40:04.199 about anything. And it was honestly quite disgusting 00:40:04.199 --> 00:40:08.320 to read about. I was not happy with what Donald 00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:10.860 McCaig decided to do with Rhett after breaking 00:40:10.860 --> 00:40:16.900 up with Scarlet. So chapter 55. Belle shows up 00:40:16.900 --> 00:40:19.500 at Tara, and at first Scarlet doesn't want to 00:40:19.500 --> 00:40:21.159 talk to her, but Belle's like, no, no, no, give 00:40:21.159 --> 00:40:23.699 me a minute of your time. And she warns Scarlet 00:40:23.699 --> 00:40:26.820 that her father, Isaiah, is out for revenge, 00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:31.360 and he has teamed up with Archie and cousin Josie 00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:35.159 to try to bother Scarlet until she asks Rhett 00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:36.880 to come home, because they want Rhett to come 00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:40.400 home. So they can get revenge on him. So she 00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:42.860 says, Scarlet, under no circumstances contact 00:40:42.860 --> 00:40:45.699 Rhett. But it's too late. Of course, Scarlet 00:40:45.699 --> 00:40:50.199 already has. So chapter 56 is really long and 00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:55.219 really, really ridiculous. Scarlet and Rosemary 00:40:55.219 --> 00:40:58.199 are freaking out because they don't want Rhett 00:40:58.199 --> 00:41:01.239 to come home and get in trouble. But as they 00:41:01.239 --> 00:41:03.340 find out, his ship has already sailed back to 00:41:03.340 --> 00:41:06.039 America. So he's coming. Then there is this long 00:41:06.039 --> 00:41:09.400 scene where Scarlett and Rosemary go to an auction 00:41:09.400 --> 00:41:13.940 and they just start calling out Archie and the 00:41:13.940 --> 00:41:16.760 Watlings for their crimes in front of everyone. 00:41:17.019 --> 00:41:19.940 Just completely take over this auction and everybody 00:41:19.940 --> 00:41:22.079 else is watching and cheering and they're like, 00:41:22.139 --> 00:41:27.400 give them hell, Scarlett, yeah. So then Ashley 00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:31.000 and Will show up and Scarlett says, and I quote, 00:41:31.260 --> 00:41:35.579 go away. Please, we are managing. We are taking 00:41:35.579 --> 00:41:40.739 care of this. Which was ridiculous. And then 00:41:40.739 --> 00:41:43.519 Ashley doesn't listen to her. And he starts whipping 00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:47.159 Archie's face with his riding whip. And then 00:41:47.159 --> 00:41:50.159 Archie stomps on Ashley's foot with his peg leg, 00:41:50.300 --> 00:41:54.519 which makes Ashley trip. A horse steps on Ashley's 00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:58.199 ankle and shatters it. And then Archie and Ashley 00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:00.500 are just having this cat fight on the ground, 00:42:00.579 --> 00:42:03.820 rolling around fighting. Um, so Will decides 00:42:03.820 --> 00:42:07.119 he's going to shoot at Archie, which frightens 00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:10.579 Scarlet Horse, Scarlet's horse. Um, and then 00:42:10.579 --> 00:42:12.900 it runs into a fence and crashes into the fence. 00:42:13.780 --> 00:42:17.300 Um, and Will does kill Archie by shooting him. 00:42:17.340 --> 00:42:20.380 So Josie, who I'm not really sure who that was, 00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:22.719 but they just kind of showed up, um, at this 00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:25.360 point in the book. And I was like, okay, Josie 00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:29.610 shoots Will and then Will dies. which was very 00:42:29.610 --> 00:42:32.409 annoying to me. Will didn't need to die. What 00:42:32.409 --> 00:42:35.670 was the point of that other than the drama? So 00:42:35.670 --> 00:42:39.650 yeah, very chaotic chapter. Chapter 57 is from 00:42:39.650 --> 00:42:42.269 Scarlett's point of view. Ashley is very sick, 00:42:42.349 --> 00:42:46.710 not only from his ankle, but he has a fever and 00:42:46.710 --> 00:42:51.210 stuff. They have a funeral for Will, and they 00:42:51.210 --> 00:42:53.230 go to the police about the Watlings, but the 00:42:53.230 --> 00:42:55.429 police won't do anything. The Watlings have fled. 00:42:56.320 --> 00:42:59.239 and they think maybe they've seen the last of 00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:02.519 them. And then Rhett finally gets to Tara with 00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:05.239 Tazewell, and he seems happy to see Scarlet. 00:43:05.900 --> 00:43:09.980 Okay, we have three chapters left in this wretched 00:43:09.980 --> 00:43:14.219 thing. Chapter 58, also from Scarlet's point 00:43:14.219 --> 00:43:16.219 of view. Her and Rhett are pretty much getting 00:43:16.219 --> 00:43:19.659 along. Rhett goes to visit Atlanta for some reason. 00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:22.000 It doesn't really say why. He takes Wade with 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:25.800 him. And Rosemary goes and cares for Ashley at 00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:28.679 Twelve Oaks because Ashley is living really pathetically. 00:43:28.739 --> 00:43:32.159 He's, like, not shaving and not doing his laundry 00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:35.199 and stuff like that. So Rosemary's now his caregiver. 00:43:36.539 --> 00:43:39.260 Rhett decides he's going to teach all of the 00:43:39.260 --> 00:43:42.119 children how to ride ponies. And by all of the 00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:45.320 children, I mean Wade, Ella, Louis Valentine, 00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:50.659 and Bo. And I think there was another kid. Oh, 00:43:50.699 --> 00:43:52.239 no, there were two more kids, Sue Ellen's kids. 00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:54.239 There are six kids, and Rhett's teaching them 00:43:54.239 --> 00:43:56.059 all how to ride ponies, and Scarlett's kind of 00:43:56.059 --> 00:44:00.320 like, what is going on? And Rhett's like, remember 00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:03.420 how much Bonnie loved her pony? She would have 00:44:03.420 --> 00:44:08.000 wanted us to remember that. So, yeah, he's apparently 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:11.179 not traumatized at all by what happened. We wouldn't 00:44:11.179 --> 00:44:12.460 know, though, because we didn't get his point 00:44:12.460 --> 00:44:15.420 of view on that. But things get a little better 00:44:15.420 --> 00:44:17.800 at Terra. Rhett's able to pay off all the debts. 00:44:18.969 --> 00:44:21.530 All of their field hands that they lost come 00:44:21.530 --> 00:44:23.570 back because there's this whole thing about how 00:44:23.570 --> 00:44:29.110 they all left. And then they believe that the 00:44:29.110 --> 00:44:32.329 Watlings have left for good. So they want to 00:44:32.329 --> 00:44:34.530 celebrate. And Rhett's like, I want to throw 00:44:34.530 --> 00:44:38.349 a barbecue. So they throw a 4th of July barbecue. 00:44:38.449 --> 00:44:40.670 And everyone keeps pointing out that it's a really 00:44:40.670 --> 00:44:42.730 weird date to throw a barbecue because it's around 00:44:42.730 --> 00:44:45.889 the Battle of Gettysburg. But nobody really cares 00:44:45.889 --> 00:44:49.789 that much. Belle is invited to the barbecue and 00:44:49.789 --> 00:44:52.550 no one questions it. She's just kind of an accepted 00:44:52.550 --> 00:44:56.010 member of their crew at this point. And there's 00:44:56.010 --> 00:44:58.750 even one point Scarlett kisses Belle on the cheek 00:44:58.750 --> 00:45:01.449 when she leaves. I mean, she's totally cool with 00:45:01.449 --> 00:45:06.369 her now. Rhett and Scarlett have basically reconciled 00:45:06.369 --> 00:45:09.030 without really saying the words. And Rosemary 00:45:09.030 --> 00:45:11.630 and Ashley are also an item now. They're dating 00:45:11.630 --> 00:45:14.610 each other, it seems. So it seems like a happy 00:45:14.610 --> 00:45:21.300 ending. But then wait, chapter 59, Tara burns 00:45:21.300 --> 00:45:26.780 to the ground. Scarlet tries to save Tara. She 00:45:26.780 --> 00:45:29.219 tries to put out the fire, but Rhett pulls her 00:45:29.219 --> 00:45:32.139 back and he's like, by God, I won't lose you, 00:45:32.199 --> 00:45:35.219 not ever again. And it turns out Isaiah Watling 00:45:35.219 --> 00:45:37.380 set fire to Tara in the middle of the night. 00:45:38.900 --> 00:45:42.000 And so yeah, Tara's just gone and Scarlet is 00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:43.840 kind of mad. She's like, oh, we should have at 00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:47.559 least tried, but. Yeah, she doesn't stress about 00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:50.420 it that much. So then Isaiah Watling actually 00:45:50.420 --> 00:45:53.559 shows up, thank God, and he tries to shoot Rhett, 00:45:53.619 --> 00:45:57.820 but just before he does, Belle's like, no! And 00:45:57.820 --> 00:46:00.579 she jumps in front of Rhett, and then Isaiah 00:46:00.579 --> 00:46:03.980 Watling, her father, shoots her, and she dies. 00:46:05.559 --> 00:46:09.840 Chapter 60 is the last chapter. It's Belle's 00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:12.960 funeral, and it's stated that it is nine years 00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:16.300 after the war, in case anyone cares. During Belle's 00:46:16.300 --> 00:46:20.440 funeral, Rhett and Ashley hold hands during the 00:46:20.440 --> 00:46:22.760 burial part. I don't know, I just thought that 00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:25.780 was a funny detail. And then Rhett and Scarlett 00:46:25.780 --> 00:46:29.059 go to stay at Aunt Pitty's house for, I guess, 00:46:29.079 --> 00:46:31.739 the rest of their days, and they officially reconcile. 00:46:32.780 --> 00:46:35.280 Scarlett's really not as upset about Tara burning 00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:37.519 down as she might be. She kind of thinks to herself, 00:46:37.699 --> 00:46:40.619 oh, maybe we can rebuild it or maybe we'll build 00:46:40.619 --> 00:46:43.539 another house here. I don't really know. And 00:46:43.539 --> 00:46:46.159 then it ends with, you know, Scarlett and Rhett 00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:50.480 being happy together and officially making up. 00:46:50.579 --> 00:46:55.280 And then it says, which wasn't nearly the end. 00:46:55.739 --> 00:47:03.469 Yay, happy ending. They got back together. Okay, 00:47:03.469 --> 00:47:11.329 so this book, in my opinion, is a complete train 00:47:11.329 --> 00:47:15.429 wreck. It's not as advertised whatsoever. It 00:47:15.429 --> 00:47:18.550 continued off of Gone with the Wind, Margaret 00:47:18.550 --> 00:47:22.429 Mitchell's story, but without following the Scarlet 00:47:22.429 --> 00:47:25.289 sequel. So it's basically completely diverged 00:47:25.289 --> 00:47:28.590 from canon. It forgot several key events in the 00:47:28.590 --> 00:47:34.739 novel and even in the movie. um and it has several 00:47:34.739 --> 00:47:39.579 plot holes several inconsistencies misspellings 00:47:39.579 --> 00:47:43.880 of people's names that bothered me and it wasn't 00:47:43.880 --> 00:47:47.280 well written either it had this very sterile 00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:53.539 unemotional writing nondescript nothing really 00:47:53.539 --> 00:47:56.599 that much about Rhett's emotions everything was 00:47:56.599 --> 00:48:00.119 more so implied but it didn't go in depth with 00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:04.230 um how he feels. So to contrast this with another 00:48:04.230 --> 00:48:08.210 book, forgive me for this if you haven't read 00:48:08.210 --> 00:48:12.949 it, but Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer is Twilight 00:48:12.949 --> 00:48:14.949 from Edward Cullen's point of view. So if you've 00:48:14.949 --> 00:48:17.070 ever read that, basically what happens in that 00:48:17.070 --> 00:48:20.510 is she rewrote Twilight, but we get Edward's 00:48:20.510 --> 00:48:24.710 thoughts on every single sentence that is written 00:48:24.710 --> 00:48:28.949 or uttered. So this book is like the complete 00:48:28.949 --> 00:48:32.500 opposite of that. We don't really get Rhett's 00:48:32.500 --> 00:48:35.780 thoughts on most things. Most of the book is 00:48:35.780 --> 00:48:39.980 just spent on Donald McCake fleshing out Rosemary 00:48:39.980 --> 00:48:45.059 Butler and Belle Watling and their families. 00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:48.500 And then we also get Scarlett's point of view 00:48:48.500 --> 00:48:52.619 a lot, but rewritten. And I didn't really see 00:48:52.619 --> 00:48:55.159 the point of that at all. I don't get why he 00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:57.400 didn't feel the need to write from Rhett's point 00:48:57.400 --> 00:49:00.760 of view. It seemed like all he wanted to do was 00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:03.219 write about the Civil War at certain points, 00:49:03.260 --> 00:49:07.840 which maybe makes sense for him. But he didn't 00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:10.800 seem like he did the job that was asked of him 00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:14.219 whatsoever. And I find it kind of odd that this 00:49:14.219 --> 00:49:17.300 book seems to have fooled some people. Now, if 00:49:17.300 --> 00:49:20.000 you go on Goodreads, the reviews are pretty bad 00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:22.340 for the most part, but I see... people in a lot 00:49:22.340 --> 00:49:25.159 of different circles recommend this book and 00:49:25.159 --> 00:49:28.219 say that it's good. And I don't really understand 00:49:28.219 --> 00:49:30.159 where they're coming from because having just 00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:33.880 gone through all 60 chapters, I really couldn't 00:49:33.880 --> 00:49:36.519 find any redeeming qualities. Even the chapters 00:49:36.519 --> 00:49:40.260 that were somewhat interesting, like the ones 00:49:40.260 --> 00:49:44.659 I just talked about in part three, the more action 00:49:44.659 --> 00:49:48.269 -packed chapters. don't really seem like the 00:49:48.269 --> 00:49:51.090 characters from Gone with the Wind at all. It's 00:49:51.090 --> 00:49:54.150 just this random series of events made up for 00:49:54.150 --> 00:49:56.690 drama. There are no themes. There are no messages. 00:49:57.170 --> 00:49:59.869 If there are any, they're just these loose, cheap 00:49:59.869 --> 00:50:02.909 imitations of stuff Margaret Mitchell wrote. 00:50:03.710 --> 00:50:09.409 So it's really just a shame. Rhett's point of 00:50:09.409 --> 00:50:12.949 view is very interesting because he's supposed 00:50:12.949 --> 00:50:16.400 to be very enigmatic, very mysterious. And for 00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:19.159 some reason, Donald McCaig just wanted to keep 00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:21.599 him that way. He didn't really want to expand 00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:23.800 on him anymore. He didn't want to give us access 00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:26.960 to his innermost thoughts, maybe because he just 00:50:26.960 --> 00:50:30.460 didn't actually care about him. Even when he 00:50:30.460 --> 00:50:32.440 does write about his emotions, he's more of an 00:50:32.440 --> 00:50:39.769 everyman. He isn't interesting at all. I really, 00:50:39.969 --> 00:50:43.489 really, really didn't like this book. I think 00:50:43.489 --> 00:50:46.010 it is actually one of the worst books I've ever 00:50:46.010 --> 00:50:50.789 read, especially if you are reading it as a companion 00:50:50.789 --> 00:50:53.610 to Gone with the Wind. I think that if you read 00:50:53.610 --> 00:50:57.190 this book on its own, say you'd never read Gone 00:50:57.190 --> 00:51:00.230 with the Wind and never seen the movie, I think 00:51:00.230 --> 00:51:03.190 you might be kind of confused, but I think mostly 00:51:03.190 --> 00:51:05.679 you would just be... bored because like I said 00:51:05.679 --> 00:51:09.420 the writing is very nondescript and unemotional 00:51:09.420 --> 00:51:12.780 and you can't get yourself to care about the 00:51:12.780 --> 00:51:15.219 characters whatsoever you don't really get why 00:51:15.219 --> 00:51:17.519 Rhett falls in love with Scarlet because it isn't 00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:21.840 really described you don't really get why Scarlet 00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:24.780 cares about Rhett either because Rhett's just 00:51:24.780 --> 00:51:29.750 this average guy and Really, the whole writing 00:51:29.750 --> 00:51:32.489 about the Civil War stuff isn't that interesting 00:51:32.489 --> 00:51:34.809 to me either. I don't know if it would be for 00:51:34.809 --> 00:51:36.690 someone who was interested in the Civil War. 00:51:37.289 --> 00:51:41.590 But overall, I just find this book so, for the 00:51:41.590 --> 00:51:44.090 most part, boring. And when it's not boring, 00:51:44.250 --> 00:51:47.909 it's infuriating. So I really don't understand 00:51:47.909 --> 00:51:52.969 how anybody could like it. I think that in some 00:51:52.969 --> 00:51:55.369 places, maybe the writing is a little better 00:51:55.369 --> 00:51:58.889 than... Scarlet by Alexandra Ripley. I always 00:51:58.889 --> 00:52:01.070 have to specify that I'm talking about that book 00:52:01.070 --> 00:52:03.230 because she named it Scarlet, which is so annoying. 00:52:04.829 --> 00:52:10.389 But even then, the writing isn't exactly good. 00:52:10.829 --> 00:52:14.570 So I don't really know what people see in this, 00:52:14.590 --> 00:52:17.949 I guess, is my final thesis on this. I find it 00:52:17.949 --> 00:52:22.550 absolutely just a ridiculous book, completely 00:52:22.550 --> 00:52:26.699 different from canon. forget several key events, 00:52:26.880 --> 00:52:29.679 and it really is not Rhett's point of view on 00:52:29.679 --> 00:52:32.840 anything. If we do get his point of view, it's 00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:35.619 usually very short, very abridged, and doesn't 00:52:35.619 --> 00:52:38.340 really tell us all that much. So if you were 00:52:38.340 --> 00:52:41.920 thinking of reading this book, I do not recommend 00:52:41.920 --> 00:52:45.860 doing it. There's really no point at all. You'll 00:52:45.860 --> 00:52:48.800 probably just make yourself angry. I would really 00:52:48.800 --> 00:52:52.179 only recommend it if you want to laugh, because 00:52:52.179 --> 00:52:56.320 the end... The last third of it was actually 00:52:56.320 --> 00:53:01.400 pretty funny at certain points. So yeah, I guess 00:53:01.400 --> 00:53:03.280 I'll just end this here. I don't have much more 00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:06.920 to say. This book really had no redeeming qualities 00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:12.519 that I can think of. And I have seen some people 00:53:12.519 --> 00:53:15.780 say they prefer it to Scarlet. So if you think 00:53:15.780 --> 00:53:18.739 that, just let me know. But I will see you guys 00:53:18.739 --> 00:53:22.619 next time. And I hope you somewhat enjoyed this, 00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:24.940 even if you disagree with me. Bye!