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Lawson, Sarah

Sarah Lawson writes poetry (All the Tea in China), fiction (The Bohemian Pirate), and translations (Christine de Pisan’s Treasure of the City of Ladies) and lives in London.

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20150301163226 Sarah Lawson on Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Frankly, My Dear

Sarah Lawson on Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Mention Gone with the Wind and everyone thinks of Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. It is Gable, in the role of Rhett Butler, who utters the immortal ‘Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn’ when a repentant Scarlett, rejected by Butler, asks what she is to do now – but that is not what he says in the book. Clark Gable added the ‘Frankly’ and that is how it is always quoted. In fact most of the popular images of the novel are from the movie. You could leave the cinema thinking Gone with the Wind was mainly a love story dealing with nostalgia for a golden antebellum age. In fact the book is closer to an anti-romance, and is full of ambiguity and ambivalence about the good old days.

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