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Finally reading "Gone With the Wind" - Spoiler if you haven't...
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 615911" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>GWTW is my favorite book of all time. The movie doesn't do it justice. I never thought of the gay angle, and am not sure the author meant for him to be gay at all. I really think it is that he is a wuss and will never breech his marriage vows. I still think so.</p><p></p><p>Now if this book had been written today, I do think there is a good chance Ashley would have been gay. But, really, I don't think the issue was out there at the time and I still am pretty convinced that Margaret Mitchell just meant that the man was too much a goody-goody to marry someone his family didn't approve of or pick for him.Yet he was a weasel enough to play along and lead her on. </p><p></p><p>Nancy, in the book Scarlett has a child from each husband, not just Bonnie. The traumas she faces are more spread out and told in more detail and I didn't find it as tragic. I also probably learned more about the Civil War than from any classroom. </p><p></p><p>I don't think movies can ever do a book justice. They only have two hours (in GWTW case four hours) to tell a long story.</p><p></p><p>I'm really sorry MM died before finishing the sequel she was writing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 615911, member: 1550"] GWTW is my favorite book of all time. The movie doesn't do it justice. I never thought of the gay angle, and am not sure the author meant for him to be gay at all. I really think it is that he is a wuss and will never breech his marriage vows. I still think so. Now if this book had been written today, I do think there is a good chance Ashley would have been gay. But, really, I don't think the issue was out there at the time and I still am pretty convinced that Margaret Mitchell just meant that the man was too much a goody-goody to marry someone his family didn't approve of or pick for him.Yet he was a weasel enough to play along and lead her on. Nancy, in the book Scarlett has a child from each husband, not just Bonnie. The traumas she faces are more spread out and told in more detail and I didn't find it as tragic. I also probably learned more about the Civil War than from any classroom. I don't think movies can ever do a book justice. They only have two hours (in GWTW case four hours) to tell a long story. I'm really sorry MM died before finishing the sequel she was writing. [/QUOTE]
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