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Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.
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literature
men
women
life
scarlett-o-hara
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Margaret Mitchell |
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70f84ae
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She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires.
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scarlett-o-hara
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Margaret Mitchell |
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d918ca2
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She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.
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scarlett-o-hara
reconstruction
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Margaret Mitchell |
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a19fff0
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To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.
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gone-with-the-wind
scarlett-o-hara
mother
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Margaret Mitchell |
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1a83871
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[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
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pain
life-and-living
scarlett-o-hara
problems
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Margaret Mitchell |
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bd5fb44
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War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.
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war
marriage
gone-with-the-wind
scarlett-o-hara
feeling
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Margaret Mitchell |
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bd5c73e
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Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling, light-footed strangers, these proud fools who took pride in something they had lost, seeming to be proud that they had lost it.
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loss
gone-with-the-wind
scarlett-o-hara
hardship
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Margaret Mitchell |
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1f34ea6
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Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.
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scarlett-o-hara
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Margaret Mitchell |
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5de9fa9
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Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.
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faith
gone-with-the-wind
scarlett-o-hara
hardship
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Margaret Mitchell |
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9ac337c
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It's a curse--this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I did not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy... In other words, Scarlett, I am a coward.
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scarlett-o-hara
civil-war
cowardice
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Margaret Mitchell |
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eebe951
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- Nao sei se interprete as suas palavras como um galanteio, se nao - replicou Scarlett, indecisa. - Nao se trata de nenhum galanteio - explicou ele. - Quando e que perdera essa mania de imaginar galanteios em todas as palavras que os homens lhe dirigem? - So depois de morta - respondeu ela. E sorriu, pensando que encontraria sempre homens que lhe dirigissem piropos, mesmo que Rhett nunca o fizesse. - Presuncao e agua benta cada qual toma a que quer - comentou Rhett. - Gracas a Deus, tem ao menos uma virtude: a de ser sincera.
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scarlett-o-hara
rhett-butler
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Margaret Mitchell |
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0a7591f
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Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.
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love
scarlett-o-hara
rhett-butler
talking
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Margaret Mitchell |
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fced3e9
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She was less frightened also because life had taken on the quality of a dream, a dream too terrible to be real. It wasn't possible that she, Scarlett O'Hara, should be in such a predicament, with the danger of death about her every hour, every minute. It wasn't possible that the quiet tenor of life could have changed so completely in so short a time.
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scarlett-o-hara
hardship
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Margaret Mitchell |