Jack Flak
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Speaking of splitting hairs!He's in the book, so that makes him a character, whether or not he is also a real historical figure.
Speaking of splitting hairs!He's in the book, so that makes him a character, whether or not he is also a real historical figure.
Ashley Wilkes is a deeply flawed INFJ (opposite of Rhett's ESTP). He's deep in his own thoughts and feelings, not field marshaling as an ENTJ would be. He hates war and he can't stand up to the women in his life. Disagree he's E at all. The guy would be quite happy living in a library and he's certainly more introverted than his wife.
Ashley Wilkes is a deeply flawed INFJ (opposite of Rhett's ESTP). He's deep in his own thoughts and feelings, not field marshaling as an ENTJ would be. He hates war and he can't stand up to the women in his life. Disagree he's E at all. The guy would be quite happy living in a library and he's certainly more introverted than his wife.
Edit - sorry I spent so much time on my GWTW book report I missed Pink's clarification.
I haven't really given a lot of thought to what types the characters were, but here's my read on them:
Ashley: Complete wimp, undeserving of even a manipulative witch like Scarlett.
Scarlett: I would absolutely hate her if I knew her IRL, but I grudgingly came to respect her. Being a Southern woman, I still don't understand why so many Southern chicks think she's so great.
Melanie: Completely one-dimensional until it came time for her to die. Then I sort of liked her. Wished she and her husband had a spine to share between them.
Rhett: Can't help but like him, but a little smooth for my tastes.
I think about the only character I didn't want to strangle was Belle Watling.
I always called my mom's movies "poofy dress movies". Pride and Prejudice, Gone With The Wind, Anne of Green Gables, Emma, Mansfield Park, etc. I guess I meant it derogatorily but now a days, I love those corseted dresses.
From the book or the movie, just curious.
I never liked Rhett, too reptilian for me. Scarlett irritated me but I can appreciate the crafting of the character in the book. Melanie in the book is the more typical Southern Belle in my view, appears soft and yielding until she's pushed on and loyally loving to a fault.
Well, there was poor Charles Hamilton and Frank Kennedy lost in the midst of all the drama.
Frank was such a drawling idiot. lol
I've never seen 'Gone with the Wind', but I am a Southern Belle.