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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 615765" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Totally. Gay. He knows that Melanie shouldn't have kids from before he marries her, so she's a "hands off" kind of wife. Of course there's a lot of in-breeding going on in that family so her frailty to be expected. I don't think it's any mistake that Gerald O'Hara repeatedly tells Scarlett that Ashley is "queer", although I know it has another meaning at the time. But he makes a strong point to her that he doesn't mean "crazy", he means queer in that Ashley loves his books, poetry, oil paintings, and fancy music too much, he doesn't drink or gamble except when he's hard pressed to and even then "his heart is not in it", that he'll "never satisfy Scarlett" as a wife, and that regardless of what Scarlett thinks "no woman can change a man like that". Even Scarlett knows that when he's wooing her before he marries Melanie that there is "never the sparkle in his eye" that every other man has for her.</p><p></p><p>I know that Ashley realizes his love for Melanie at the end, but I think it's in regret for having not been a good husband to her and that he will miss his beard, as it were. He now has no <em>reason</em> to not marry Scarlett and that terrifies him so he <em>has to</em> tell Scarlett that he loved Melanie all along. At the very least, Ashley's sexuality is open to interpretation. You'd be surprised how many hits you get if you google "Ashley Wilkes gay". Apparently there's been some very serious study and research into it.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20085316,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20085316,00.html</a></p><p></p><p>I've never read "Forever Amber". I'm not sure what that is? I'll have to look it up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 615765, member: 99"] Totally. Gay. He knows that Melanie shouldn't have kids from before he marries her, so she's a "hands off" kind of wife. Of course there's a lot of in-breeding going on in that family so her frailty to be expected. I don't think it's any mistake that Gerald O'Hara repeatedly tells Scarlett that Ashley is "queer", although I know it has another meaning at the time. But he makes a strong point to her that he doesn't mean "crazy", he means queer in that Ashley loves his books, poetry, oil paintings, and fancy music too much, he doesn't drink or gamble except when he's hard pressed to and even then "his heart is not in it", that he'll "never satisfy Scarlett" as a wife, and that regardless of what Scarlett thinks "no woman can change a man like that". Even Scarlett knows that when he's wooing her before he marries Melanie that there is "never the sparkle in his eye" that every other man has for her. I know that Ashley realizes his love for Melanie at the end, but I think it's in regret for having not been a good husband to her and that he will miss his beard, as it were. He now has no [I]reason[/I] to not marry Scarlett and that terrifies him so he [I]has to[/I] tell Scarlett that he loved Melanie all along. At the very least, Ashley's sexuality is open to interpretation. You'd be surprised how many hits you get if you google "Ashley Wilkes gay". Apparently there's been some very serious study and research into it. [url]http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20085316,00.html[/url] I've never read "Forever Amber". I'm not sure what that is? I'll have to look it up. [/QUOTE]
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