Wow. I know its been awhile since I started this book but its not for lack of trying. Its over a thousand pages and I'm happy to report that I am as enthralled at page 502 as I was at 12. After falling asleep during the movie about a million times, its a great surprise that this book is so interesting. I am so in love with Scarlett and want to be just like her. I am surprised that she is not madly in love with Rhett Butler because of the way he is described. I know I would be all about him if I were her.
I'm pretty sick of the Civil War and I'm not actually sure what exactly everyone is fighting about, slaves maybe? I guess I'm just not a fan or war in any capacity and the details of it are educational but also really hard to digest.
I liked the part on page 429 that described Gerald's love for Ellen:
He never would be any different and now Scarlett realized the truth and accepted it without emotion - that until he died Gerald would always be waiting for Ellen, always listening for her. He was in some dim borderline country where time was standing still and Ellen was always in the next room. The mainspring of his existence was taken away when she died and with it had gone his bounding assurance, his impudence and his restless vitality. Ellen was the audience before which the blustering drama of Gerald O'Hara had been played. Now the curtain had been rung down forever, the footlights dimmed and the audience suddenly vanished, while the stunned old actor remained on his empty stage, waiting for his cues.
So beautiful.
Cool word: TEMERITY - unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition
