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* MetaphoricalllyTrue: "I'm not any more in love with you than you are with me" being one of many.

* MeraphoricalllyTrue: "I'm not any more in love with you than you are with me" being one of many.

* OedipusComplex: Gender-inverted. Although downplayed in the film, Scarlett's attraction to Rhett is that he has very many of the same qualities that her father has, being very much a manly man who drinks, rides, and is shrewd enough to make something of himself out of nothing. It's even mentioned in the book that she instinctively likes the smell of tobacco, riding leather, and whiskey in other men because they remind her of Gerald. What does Rhett always smell like when she gets up close to him?

* PopCulturalOsimosisFailure: Scarlett never understands cultural references. Early on, when Ashley says that Rhett loooks like a Borgia, she asks if the Borgias are relatives of his.

* NiceHat: Rhett has a snazzy Panama among many others, and even gives Scarlett her very own Nice Bonnet.

** Gerald and Ellen also count, in the book, it said that Gerald is twenty-eight years older than Ellen.

* NotSoDifferent: Scarlett realizes, to her great discomfort, that there's not much of a difference between herself and Belle Watling, when she decides to prostitute herself to Rhett.
** She is also uncomfortably aware of this with regards to Rhett himself.