In reading Gone with the Wind, one can’t avoid comparing young Scarlet O’Hara with Carol Kennicut from Sinclair Lewis’ Main Street. The two characters feel like the perfect embodiments of girlishness split along North-South lines. Each has her faults, but Scarlet would clearly be the better date (not to mention the better person).
In their own words:
Scarlet: “As God is my witness, I’m going to live through this, and when it’s over, I’m never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks.”
Carol: “I am I! When I die, the world will be annihilated, as far as I’m concerned. I am I!
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