I feel genuine heartfelt concern for Jane on this show. I can't explain the level of empathy that kid gets out of me. I want to take her to a shrink to see if she is just a really smart creative kid or if there is something really wrong. She sometimes acts almost schizophrenic.

It's getting to the point that it makes me roll my eyes everytime.

I had the Pear Dream again…….

It's normally creepy, but as a heterosexual woman who feels we shouldn't sexualize 17 year old actresses, even my eyes were popping out at that scene. Someone should have talked to the costume design team. I was embarrassed for her.

I"m feeling Peggy and Stan a bit. They may have set it up a while ago with the initial personality clash….cliched but effective.

I've thought that all along even though it's a little on the nose.

Scroll down, there's lots of discussion about the book.

Well, I guess the article's author need not worry about Scarlett being forgotten given the level of discussion she triggered. It seems she's alive and well in the American psyche. Which makes sense, as the central themes of the book are those that haunt us to this day.

It's offensive on so many levels and can definitely be used as propaganda by hate groups. But I believe it also can be a useful tool to understand our current racial problems in the country, if read by people looking to solve them. As a white, liberal, educated, northerner, I found it a fascinating view into the…

You're right in that it does advocate that point of view. However, to a critical reader that can be a tool to better understand how good people can be part of horrific systems and events. I'd be both appalled and fascinated to read a similar story about citizens of Nazi Germany. How did they view themselves? What…

Melanie is by far the most sympathetic of the white characters in the book. However, even she is blinded to the wider realities of the world. She's content to defer to her husband, even when she internally questions his judgement. And while she'll kill and stand up for her loved ones and treats people kindly, she's…

He's smart, but not willing to take action to go against the society that created him. As Scarlett notices in his letters, why is he fighting in the war if he doesn't believe in slavery? Why is he joining the Klan when he doesn't believe in violence? He is a hypocrite to his own intelligence because he is paralyzed…

I am always fascinated by the modern 'tragic hero' in the theatrical sense (which can apply pretty well to film and novels at times) as something that we still use. There has been a huge debate about Arthur Miller's characters, particularly in Salesman and All My Sons as working class or modern 'tragic heroes'. …

To truly be a sociopath the character would need to lack empathy. Scarlett does not have much insight into other people, and makes some immoral decisions, but she is aware of the suffering of others, particularly, strangely, the slave characters. See the scene with Uncle Peter and the Yankees. She does also have a…

I think we use anti hero in the way that the Aristotle used a 'tragic hero'. In the classical model a 'hero' in a tragedy meets certain criteria. They are of 'noble' or high status birth. (rich planter's daughter) They are glorified. (belle of the county) They possess a fatal flaw that leads to their downfall. (lack…

Actually Ashley was the one who joined the Klan. Rhett covered their asses when they were being set up. Scarlett never had trouble looking to the future, that was more Ashley's deal. She embraces the Yankees and Carpetbaggers whole heartedly, and it costs her all of her previous connections other than Melanie and…

To be fair, despite Scarlett's view of him. Ashley in the books is a pretty big drip. Howard is probably the best method actor in the film, a little ahead of his time in his moments of naturalism. Yes, he's too old. But he was established and what they could get. Neither he nor Gable wanted the roles and hated…

I think that it does so in such a seductive and enjoyable manner is what makes it valuable as a tool to examine our history and the conflict that has plagued us to this day. You can't understand racism and how to cure it, without understanding the racist worldview and how it can draw someone in.

I think there are feminist elements to Scarlett as a character, but for the most part the main characters are really devices to illustrate the downfall of a society. Scarlett scrabbles, Melanie endures gracefully until she literally dies, Ashley mourns helplessly and Rhett pulls the strings. They are all flawed…

Exactly. That scene illustrates that beautifully.