Anyone wanted Scarlett to slap Melanie

No. melanie is a kind woman, and Scarlett has no reason to slap her. And she is after melanie's husband, so it ought to be Melanie slapping her.

No, there have been times I wish Melanie had stuck Ashley's saber up Scarlett's butt!

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Personally, I think anyone who would want to slap someone so good, sweet and forgiving, a true Christian woman need their fcking head examined.

Get off your soapbox while I play you a tune on the tiniest violin.

If Scarlett had ever slapped Melanie it would only have made her more of a bitch, which would have proven what? She had no good reason to and knew that Southern rules of behaviour would have never excused it.


The Fabio Principle: Puffy shirts look best on men who look even better without them.

If Scarlett had ever slapped Melanie it would only have made her more of a bitch, which would have proven what? She had no good reason to and knew that Southern rules of behaviour would have never excused it.


The Fabio Principle: Puffy shirts look best on men who look even better without them.

I imagine most would probably wish the opposite.

I see a lot of people have failed to understand Melanie. She isn't a weakling, she isn't naive, prudish, or too good for this world. She is, in fact, someone who sees exactly what's going on in her world, including all the wicked and disgusting stuff (she deals with disgusting stuff without a qualm several times in the book), but who chooses to only say things which are good and kind. In a world where rich white ladies spend their entire lives exchanging mean gossip, she puts the best possible spin on everything everyone does, even when she knows the mean gossips are absolutely right about someone.

So she's part deceptively complex believable character, and part an archetype of the Perfect Southern Lady who never says anything mean about anyone and who is polite to such "inferiors" as Belle Watling or her slaves, and as such, she isn't 100% believable. But Olivia DeHaviland does a great job of making her seem believable, because she plays the character the way I described her - very aware of how bad people are, but never saying what she really thinks about that.

And as such, I don't like her any more than Scarlett does. I mean, how can you like someone who never, EVER says what she really thinks?