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-Ellen quietly the master of the house, sort of like Scarlett will become I reckon
-Gerald is an Irishman but he adopted southern character—“states’ rights and damnation to all Yankees, slavery and king cotton”
-Gerald won Tara in a game of poker—self made man, and different from most those around him. The house also had burned down before he obtained it. “The fortunes of the oharas would rise again”
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-Gerald is an Irishman but he adopted southern character—“states’ rights and damnation to all Yankees, slavery and king cotton”
-Gerald won Tara in a game of poker—self made man, and different from most those around him. The house also had burned down before he obtained it. “The fortunes of the oharas would rise again”
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Gerald says land is the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for. He also says Scarlett can’t marry a man different from her (like Ashley) and Scarlett thinks but he and mom couldn’t be more different. Foreshadowing I imagine
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Ellen managed the property (and well) but was not happy nor was her life easy, but “that was a woman’s lot.” Men owned the property and women managed it, and men took credit for good management and women told them they were clever (pp 75). Scarlett will break these expectations
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Scarlett “found the road to ladyhood hard” and preferred to play with the slave children on the plantation and the boys in the neighborhood. mammy would yell at her to act like a little lady, but Ellen didn’t mind because “from childhood playmates grew beaux in later years” and “there was still time in which ti teach her the arts and graces of being attractive to men”