Rhett Butler Finds Out Scarlett Has a Baby in the Tv Mini Series

Scarlett is ane of the authorized sequels to Gone with the Wind, written by Alexandra Ripley and published in 1991. It's an Firsthand Sequel detailing how Scarlett handles the backwash of the previous book, including Rhett leaving her, and how she finally grows into a proper person.

It was adjusted into a Mini Series by CBS in 1994 starring Joanne Whalley as Scarlett O'Hara, Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler, and Sean Bean every bit Lord Richard Fenton.

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Tropes for this volume include:

• 0% Approving Rating: Count Fenton, at to the lowest degree in Ballyhara. Scarlett admits that she simply accepted his marriage proposal because she couldn't accept Rhett, and she wanted Fenton'southward money in revenge.
• Adaptational Distillation: By its final quarter, the Mini Series wildly diverges from the book—Scarlett is brutally raped by Fenton and charged with his murder, and unable to recollect if she did it or non.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: In the novel, Scarlett doesn't meet Lord Fenton until some fourth dimension after she gives birth to Cat.
• Adaptational Villainy: Fenton is even worse in the miniseries, being an abuser of a young Irish girl who he's forced to be his Sexual practice Slave, refusing to help her in any way when she gets meaning, murdering Scarlett's priest cousin when he demands that he take responsibility, and finally, raping Scarlett herself.
• Appreciating Nickname: Scarlett's 2nd kid by Rhett that lives by nascency, Katie O'Hara, gets the nickname "Cat".
• All Girls Want Bad Boys:
  • After Rhett divorces her, Scarlett tries to motion on with British soldier Charles Ragland who is a Dainty Guy. She can't forget Rhett, notwithstanding, and the man she finds who is a closest substitute is a Jerkass English language Count that wants to marry her purely to own her.
  • On the gender flipside, Rhett divorces Scarlett out of spite towards her leaving his mother in a hullabaloo and marries the sugariness Anne Hampton, but he keeps visiting Scarlett in Ireland despite professing non to love her. When Anne dies in childbirth, he decides to render to Republic of ireland and win back Scarlett earlier she marries Fenton
• Amicable Exes:
  • Played straight between Scarlett and Ashley, though they never did assemble. She only blames herself for what happened between them and Melanie, and sets him up with another adult female who is level-headed and needs a husband.
  • Subverted in another instance. Scarlett tries to do this when Rhett visits her in Ireland after divorcing her, merely she can't continue it up. He also is a Jerkass to her subsequently hearing that she'south moving on and marrying Count Fenton, shortly after his new wife Anne dies.
• Bittersweet Ending: Scarlett loses her abode Balyhara and her tenants brand her as a traitor to their cause. She as well has nowhere to go, though she has enough money to final for the residual of her life. Merely Rhett has come up back for her, and they reconcile.
• Can't Alive With Them, Can't Live Without Them: Rhett finds this out belatedly about Scarlett, even after divorcing her and marrying another woman. He never cheats on Anne physically, but the minute she dies he rushes to Ireland to terminate Scarlett from marrying Fenton.
• Character Decease: Mammy dies from old historic period.
• Character Development: "Scarlett" is basically an entire book of simply this, where Scarlett finally grows out of being a teenager... in her late twenties. Information technology'south very much a case of that Determinator part of her beingness used to become past her belle upbringing and her stunted emotional growth to plow her into a proper adult. Well, a semi-decent person at least. It's why this book is so long. And also one of the reasons why it is... non well liked.
• Death by Childbirth:
  • Subverted when Scarlet has Cat, though it'due south a close call. If not for Grainne's Deus ex Machina arrival, Scarlett and Cat would have died together.
  • Played directly when Anne Hampton dies having her second kid with Rhett.
• Deconstructed Trope: Rhett and Scarlett's relationship becomes this in the end, and it deconstructs their Masochism Tango. After divorcing her and maxim multiple that Scarlett loving him doesn't matter, that her loving him isn't enough, Rhett has the gall to exist insulted that Scarlett is preparing to marry Fenton. Scarlett is rightly offended by this when he insults her while drunkard, pointing out that he was happy to move on and marry some other woman while leaving her to rot. It takes her learning that Anne died to even requite him a second chance and hear him out. Rhett in the meantime learns that he accidentally fabricated their third child illegitimate and they had a third child. When he asks why Scarlett didn't tell him sooner, Scarlett points out he made the law work in his favor for the divorce and marriage to Anne. Knowing him, he would sue to win custody of Cat and leave Scarlett with nothing considering he has that ability and coin. Rhett is and so forced to concede that while Scarlett hasn't been the best wife, he also didn't give her any reason to trust him with his actions. He promises to Scarlett that if they're reconciling, he'south going to work to earn her trust again and she, in plough, promises to be more faithful.
• Deliberate Values Racket: In that location are many instances of this:
  • Scarlett'south horror when Rhett manages to secure a divorce against her when she leaves to Republic of ireland, on the grounds of "desertion," when yous tin can't go a divorce in Georgia.
  • Also Scarlett's horror on realizing that extramarital sex is a affair in certain European holiday spots, indicated by sandwiches. She may accept done many things, like emotionally cheat on her husbands by pining for Ashley, but she never crossed that line.
• Deus ex Machina: In the middle of a thunderstorm with the doctor too far away and the midwife's deportment being murderous, a wise-woman arrives saving Scarlett and her baby with an improvised C-section. Then it gets deconstructed, as the villagers believe that babe Cat is a changeling that about killed her mother.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Scarlett leaving Rhett'southward family unit in Charleston subsequently he has sexual activity with her to salvage her life, and so traveling to Ireland. This gives ample time for Rhett to divorce her and marry another woman while she'due south abroad.
  • Also Scarlett agreeing to marry a Jerkass English count in Irish gaelic territory. Mrs. Fitz and Colum stay loyal to her, but it ends upward turning her tenants in Balyhara against her.
  • So Rhett, y'all actually didn't consider that after divorcing Scarlett and marrying another adult female that she would practice the same since you have told her multiple times that you don't dearest her and she can't win y'all back?
• Entitled to Accept You lot: Fenton treats Scarlett in this style, which she realizes is similar to how Rhett was in the get-go of their courtship.
• Epiphany Therapy: Scarlett kicks her alcoholism, which has been going on for x years and counting, merely past realizing how disgusting she has get.
• Faux Widow: Scarlett dresses in mourning after coming to Ireland to avoid whatsoever scandal regarding her pregnancy.
• Foreshadowing: Scarlett and Rhett note how similar Anne Hampton is to Melanie, from the sweetness nature to the delicate frame. Anne, like Melanie, dies while having her 2nd child with Rhett after he marries her.
• Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex activity: Rhett dismisses his and Scarlett's lovemaking equally purely this. Even though that was likely a huge component of it regardless, he flat-out denies however beingness in love with her.
• Gilded Digger: 1 of the reasons why Scarlett agrees to marry Fenton is that, in addition to him being a Replacement Goldfish for Rhett, is that she wanted to give his coin to her daughter.
• Hypocrite: Rhett tries to gain his reputation back in Charleston later burning all his bridges in that location in his youth and humiliating his family unit, and then constantly pushes Scarlett abroad when she tries to make like apology towards him, taking the moral loftier-ground. At least there is a deliberate counterpoint to this which allows it to make literary sense, and Scarlett herself lampshades this.
• Hot for Preacher: Inverted. It's Scarlett's priest—her cousin—who takes a liking to her.
• Immediate Sequel: Picks up at Melanie'due south funeral, only a few days afterwards the end of Gone with the Wind
• Jerkass Realization: Rhett at the stop when Scarlett tells him that "True cat" isn't the family true cat left in the house, but their daughter. He realizes in a matter of minutes that he divorced his wife after impregnating her and married some other woman.
• Just in Fourth dimension: Rhett arrives at the end of the volume in the nick of time to finish Scarlett from marrying Fenton, with only a few weeks to spare.
• Belatedly-Arrival Spoiler: Bonnie is dead, Melanie is dead, and Rhett has left Scarlett.
• Literary Necrophilia: Scarlett is from Scarlett's perspective and gives her the hazard to grow out of being xvi and go a semi-normal if still manipulative and sociopathic woman, by and large by putting her through the emotional and physical wringer (this takes so much time and endeavor that the book is incredibly long, and several years have to laissez passer in-story for it to happen). While nonetheless giving a true-blue reproduction of Scarlett's romanticized earth view, extrapolated from where she is at the stop of Gone With The Wind, information technology does provide evidence that this view is grounded in a larger reality that is somewhat harsher and less melodramatic than she believes it is (to her shock and horror). It gives both Rhett and Scarlett's parents' backstories, making sense of both how Rhett came to be who he is and deconstructing the social tragedy of the "belle and beau" idiom. It takes the view that when all is said and done, and both are willing to treat each other with some modicum of respect, Scarlett and Rhett accept every bit much adventure of making each other happy equally anyone. This was universally panned past critics, who all hated it - criticized as existence insanely uneventful, probably because of the amount of time spent examining the dissimilar societies of the era through which Scarlett moves and which shape her. Nevertheless, a lot of fans loved it and thought exactly the opposite, and then much so that information technology was a commercial success and is notwithstanding in print (making it 1 of the almost successful fanfics always, before the internet). Yep, this is a polarizing phenomena, and what you think of information technology is very much upwards to individual opinion. A mini-series was based on this, simply the plot is quite different (time might accept been an result).
• Mama Bear: Scarlett keeps checking on Wade and Ella when she visits Tara, and she is furious to hear how the hamlet children have been hurting True cat.
• Misery Builds Graphic symbol: Wisewoman Grainne tells Scarlett to not punish her tenants for hurting cat considering it won't assist at all, and the suffering has made Cat Wise Across Their Years.
• Not Helping Your Case: Rhett's new married woman has died, leaving him free, and he comes immediately to Ireland to render to Scarlett, just to find she's marrying an English count. He nonetheless wants Scarlett despite his better judgment, and instead of telling her outright, starts Drowning My Sorrows and insults her for her planned wedding. This doesn't endear Scarlett at all to him until she learns the truth.
• Not What It Looks Similar: In the Mini Serial, Anne spots Scarlett going up to Ashley's hotel room with him and blabs to Rhett's mother. Scarlett crassly, but truthfully points out that she was only in that location for ten minutes (looking over some concern plans) and that wouldn't even exist plenty time for her to go undressed, much less accept sex activity. However, you'd think she'd accept learned later what happened in the last picture. . .
• Replacement Goldfish:
  • Anne Hampton for Melanie Wilkes, as far as Rhett is concerned. Scarlett lampshades that Rhett would have rather married someone like Melanie who was good-hearted and sweet. This ends upwardly subverted, nevertheless; Rhett admits that he hopes she was happy, but he wasn't able to get Scarlett out of his caput.
  • Subverted with True cat, who is Wise Beyond Their Years in contrast to Bonnie. This may exist justified in that Scarlett refuses to echo the mistakes that Rhett made, and the circumstances of True cat'south nascency are far different.
  • Subverted with Fenton when he proposes to Scarlett. Although Scarlett admits that he is the closest matter to Rhett that she could have, she doesn't dear him. Also, the real Rhett travels to Ireland as presently as Anne dies, and says he'll kill Fenton.
• Sequel Gap: Coming 55 years after the original.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Scarlett finally discovers her maternal instincts after having Cat and returns to visit Tara with the full intent of pouring out this newfound honey on Wade and Ella and bringing them back to Ireland with her. But to discover that thanks to the crucial bonding time lost in the first volume along with her essentially abandoning them at Tara for years while she ventured off, they are at present complete strangers to her and she to them. She sadly resigns herself to this and accepts consummate responsibility for it.
• Wham Line:
  • Two in a row, separated by a succession of weeks: DIVORCED ON THE Footing OF DESERTION, and a news announcement about Rhett marrying Anne Hampton.
  • Grainne revealing to Scarlett that the emergency C-section she performed doubled equally a hysterectomy, taking away Scarlett's womb.
  • Scarlett hearing that Anne Hampton died in childbirth after she sees Rhett being a Jerkass to her in Republic of ireland.
• Wham Shot:
  • Scarlett'due south water breaking, and it's cherry-red from the blood.
  • Charles Ragland getting shot when Scarlett runs into him in her rush to get home to Ballyhara and reunite with Rhett.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Mrs. Fitzgerald and Column call out Scarlett for agreeing to marry Count Fenton since the man is English, a Jerkass, and no friend to her tenants. Scarlett refuses to listen to them, which ends upward being a nigh fatal mistake.
  • At the end of the book, Scarlett and Rhett call each other out for their actions over the books, such equally Scarlett leaving in a rush and leaving only a note that Rhett'due south sister burns, Rhett divorcing Scarlett out of spite, and Scarlett non telling Rhett that she was carrying his child. Scarlett's justification for the terminal flake was that she was scared that Rhett would take True cat from her.

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