Beth Durham
My favorite fictional couple would have to come from my favorite work of fiction - Gone With the Wind. Unfortunately, it's hard to choose just which could I prefer.
Gerald and Ellen O'Hara are a typical old-world couple from very different backgrounds but utterly devoted to each other. Gerald loves Ellen so much he is never quite the same after her death and Ellen is the epitome of feminine grace.
Then there's Ashley and Melanie Wilkes. Melanie is as Rhett Butler describes her, "The only truly good person I've ever known." Despite the perception of many that Ashley is weak, I find him incredible as he valiantly maintains his wedding vows to Melanie in the face of Scarlett's seductions.
And of course the stars of the whole thing are Rhett and Scarlett O'Hara Butler. Their love burns white hot yet neither of them are willing to recognize it for what it is. Rhett declares they are the same. Scarlett wants to be more like her mother - and in turn more like Melanie - but she's unwilling to change her selfish nature. She wastes a lifetime yearning for Ashley and only recognized her love for Rhett when it's too late.
Margaret Mitchell was a true artist. She crafted in that one long novel enough characters for a shelf full of books.
Gerald and Ellen O'Hara are a typical old-world couple from very different backgrounds but utterly devoted to each other. Gerald loves Ellen so much he is never quite the same after her death and Ellen is the epitome of feminine grace.
Then there's Ashley and Melanie Wilkes. Melanie is as Rhett Butler describes her, "The only truly good person I've ever known." Despite the perception of many that Ashley is weak, I find him incredible as he valiantly maintains his wedding vows to Melanie in the face of Scarlett's seductions.
And of course the stars of the whole thing are Rhett and Scarlett O'Hara Butler. Their love burns white hot yet neither of them are willing to recognize it for what it is. Rhett declares they are the same. Scarlett wants to be more like her mother - and in turn more like Melanie - but she's unwilling to change her selfish nature. She wastes a lifetime yearning for Ashley and only recognized her love for Rhett when it's too late.
Margaret Mitchell was a true artist. She crafted in that one long novel enough characters for a shelf full of books.
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