Scarlett

Scarlett of Alexandra Ripley, appeared one 1991, is the only continuation of Gone With The Wind authorized by the heirs to Margaret Mitchell. In spite of a good documentation, criticisms generally agree to recognize with this continuation much less breath and of charm that to the work of Margaret Mitchell.

Attention, which follows reveals the intrigue :

With funerals of Melanie Hamilton, Scarlett is insulated, without Rhett which gave up it and in prey with the hostility of the good company of Atlanta. The situation worsens when Scarlett springs with the help of Ashley which more or less threatens to commit suicide. The doors close all in front of Scarlett which however makes a point of honouring its ultimate engagement in front of Melanie: to take care on Ashley and their son. Scarlett that point without reaches to regild its blazon. It falls down in its usual errors while taking part in a festival where it finds Rhett which also keeps to its commitment to him to save appearances from time to time by meeting it, but all its attempts to reconquer her husband fail. It goes to Tara (its mom is dying) but hardly finds comfort there. It goes to Charleston in the mother of Rhett in order to remake her reputation but in spite of the affection of the latter, Scarlett is not made with the code life of the too rigid city. During an exit at sea with Rhett, they make shipwreck and make love while waiting for the helps but Rhett announces to him that nothing is changed between them. Scarlett flees and takes refuge in his/her Irish cousins of Charleston, accessible but with the little refined manners. Scarlett becomes acquainted with one of his/her cousins, catholic priest understanding and charismatic. It is let gray by its invitation to go to Ireland to see true the " Tara" , the ground which gave its name to the plantation of its childhood. She discovers that she is pregnant and thus thinks of reconquering Rhett but learns that he asked the divorce and remarié itself at once with an young girl of the good company charlestonienne. Desperate Scarlett leaves in Ireland, breaking temporarily with its imposing lifestyle and carrying out an almost country life in the middle of his/her Irish cousins. However, the wish to have its own ground makes him acquire a field on which it makes build a superb residence. It is confined with difficulty of a girl (the woman who was confined it and operated has to remove all its reproductive system to him) for which it is discovered finally deep maternal feelings: it chooses not to inform Rhett of it so that he does not seek to remove his daughter to him.

But in Ireland occupied by Protestant English, Scarlett attracts itself the mistrust of sound Irish cousinage which takes part in the resistance and the curiosity of the English rich person fascinated by this beautiful américano-Irish. Scarlett is again let gray by an easy and opulent life, being let allure by a rich person and arrogant English aristocrat at the point to accept its proposal and its proposal to adopt his/her daughter. She crosses Rhett at the time of a horse-race and understands that it is there for her: it is devastated (his wife has just died in layers). At the time of an armed action with Irish resistance, some of his/her cousins die and Scarlett, marked of treason, is continued by attackers. It owes its safety only in Rhett which discovers its paternity and acknowledges in Scarlett that he always likes it. Scarlett is charmed return of Rhett but mark a little hesitation in its agreement to take again its relation with him, its a few last years in Ireland having given him the taste of independence.

Adaptation

The novel was adapted in a mini-series televised with Joanne Whalley and Timothy Dalton in the main roles.

Random links: