Scarlett (novel)

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Scarlett is the title of a 1991 novel by Alexandra Ripley , which is a sequel to Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind .

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The main character of Alexandra Ripley's book is again Scarlett O'Hara, the heroine from Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone With the Wind . The plot of the novel Scarlett initially takes place in Atlanta , moves via the Tara plantation to Charleston and after about two thirds of the novel to Ireland .

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Scarlett tries to win back her husband Rhett, who separated from her after Melanie's death. After she first holds out her arms, she follows him after the death of her old nurse Mammy in his hometown of Charleston, where she initially lives with her old aunts.

After Rhett's mother learns that Scarlett is in Charleston, she takes her into her home. There she made the acquaintance of Rhett's siblings and the Charleston Society. She quickly realizes that this society is just as narrow-minded and stuck with the past as the "old guard" of Atlanta, which she has always despised.

After a failed sailing trip, she first fled to her father's relatives in Savannah , from there to Ireland and to get to know her roots. After discovering that Rhett is expecting a child, she learns that Rhett has divorced while she was away in order to marry Anne Hampton. Scarlett defiantly decides that he should never find out about his child's existence.

In Ireland she meets her elderly grandfather, her cousin Father Colum and the rest of the extended family and decides to give them a hand. She buys back the old family property Ballyhara and relocates the village belonging to it.

But the lonely country life quickly loses its charm, and she joins the English upper class, which is heavily criticized by the Irish. After an uprising in which Ballyhara is destroyed and the superstitious population is after her daughter Cat, Rhett Butler comes to the rescue once again, whose wife died pregnant. The two decide to try again together.

TV adaptation

Alexandra Ripley's novel was filmed in 1994 in the form of the mini-television series of the same name (four episodes, 90 minutes each). The script was written by William Hanley.

Reviews

The New York Times wrote that the novel had Gone with the Wind only the names of the protagonists in common and was "cultural cannibalism".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janet Maslin: Books of The Times; In 'Scarlett,' Only the Names Are the Same. In: New York Times , September 27, 1991 ( online , accessed January 10, 2013)

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