History Characters / GoneWithTheWind

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The novel has [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters so many major and supporting characters in it]], we had to divide them into separate sections.

The film has [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters so many major and supporting characters in it]], we had to divide them into separate sections.

[[Characters/GoneWithTheWindTara Tara Plantation]]: [[labelnote:Click to Expand]] Gerald O'Hara, Ellen O'Hara, Scarlett O'Hara, Suellen O'Hara, Carreen O'Hara, Brent Tarleton, Stuart Tarleton, Mammy, Pork, Prissy, Jonas Wilkerson, Big Sam[[/labelnote]]

[[Characters/GoneWithTheWindTwelveOaks At Twelve Oaks]]: [[labelnote:Click to Expand]] John Wilkes, India Wilkes, Ashley Wilkes, Melanie Hamilton, Charles Hamilton, Frank Kennedy, Rhett Bulter[[/labelnote]]

[[Characters/GoneWithTheWindAtlanta Atlanta]]: [[labelnote:Click to Expand]] Aunt "Pittypat" Hamilton, Uncle Peter, Dr. Meade, Mrs. Meade, Mrs. Merriwether, Belle Watling[[/labelnote]]

[[Characters/GoneWithTheWindAtlanta Atlanta]]: [[labelnote:Click to Expand]] Aunt "Pittypat" Hamilton, Uncle Peter, Dr. Meade, Mrs. Meade, Mrs. Merriwether, Belle Watling[[/labelnote]]

The film has [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters so many characters in it]], we had to divide them into separate sections.

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[[folder:Scarlett O'Hara]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow."'']]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/VivienLeigh

The daughter of Gerald and Ellen O'Hara. She is vain, self-centered, and very spoiled by her wealthy family. She can also be insecure, but is very intelligent, despite her fashionable pretense at ignorance and helplessness around men.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Scarlett (in the book "not a beautiful woman") is played by silver screen beauty Creator/VivienLeigh. However, throughout the book, Scarlett is still frequently described as pretty or handsome, so it isn't as extreme as most cases.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Downplayed. As she still commits much of her sinful acts in the books but the film remove her neglect of her children (two who were removed from the movie and her demeanor towards Bonnie while somewhat irresponsible, is still more loving than her treatment of her last daughter in the book). Also scenes after the escape from Atlanta shows her using her wits to escape from Yankee patrolmen.
* AlcoholHic: Scarlett after the death of her second husband.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Even the shrewd, cynical Scarlett seems to believe this when she gets pregnant for the fourth time and is happy about it for the first time—she thinks the baby will be the key to reconciling with Rhett. Unfortunately this ends up being completely inverted—she miscarries and it's the beginning of the end for them. Later, after Bonnie's death, she admits that she would be willing to have another child if that what's it will take to bring Rhett out of his grief.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Scarlett's wish to be rid of Melanie.
* BelatedLoveEpiphany: She doesn't see that Melanie was her closest and truest friend until Melanie is on her deathbed. Nor does she realize that she loves Rhett much more than she loves Ashley until Rhett decides to leave her.
* BigEater: Scarlett openly loves to eat, unlike the typical Southern belle
* BitchInSheepsClothing: When she cares enough, Scarlett can manipulate almost any man into thinking of her as a sweet, innocent, delicate flower of womanhood. This is played with quite a bit throughout ''Gone with the Wind'' and ''Literature/{{Scarlett}}''. Scarlett may be a scheming, lying bitch under her flirtatious demur exterior, but she can be quite naive and innocent about the really nasty stuff that goes on behind closed doors and in society. E.g., in Charleston, she is actively shocked and sickened when she finds out that adultery is actually really quite common among married people.
* BookDumb: Scarlett, in everything but math. The fact that she is actually sharp and brilliant when it comes to business and finance makes some very uncomfortable implications about what her upbringing as a belle has done to her mind in general. She is so Book Dumb that she is actively stupid in areas that should be common knowledge to her (considering her class, era and gender).
* CannotSpitItOut: She never got a chance to explain to Rhett that the embrace she and Ashley were caught in was completely innocent.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: The ''one'' time she connects to Ashley on a real emotional level without any thought of seducing him, she is caught in the act by MoralGuardians. Very frustrating given all the actually immoral things she's done and gotten away with—even she practically lampshades this by saying that she would have gladly welcomed everyone's contempt had they been doing something wrong, knowing that she would have deserved it.
* CartwrightCurse: Her first two husbands die in unrelated circumstances.
* CharacterDevelopment: She belatedly realizes that she and Melanie have become FireForgedFriends and that she doesn't really love Ashley when it's too late to do anything about it. She also matures from an ignorant, vapid SouthernBelle to the 1800s version of a CorruptCorporateExecutive to keep the family land and her family well-fed.
* ColourCodedEyes: Scarlett's green eyes are very relevant to her personality, always wanting more money, and having a jealous personality.
%% * CoolBigSis: Towards her youngest sister Carreen. Suellen... not so much.
%% * DaddysGirl: Gerald and Scarlett.
* DeathGlare: [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/68/4b/cb/684bcb23842c45c3c14c2342c8883650.jpg You know the one.]]
* {{Determinator}}: She gets props for being so ridiculously determined to survive and keep her family alive that she debases her own class and values, lies, cheats, steals, farms by literally pulling the plow herself, and does everything the men of the time were having trouble doing and things that women were never supposed to do. The true tragedy of the series - whatever book or film you look at - is that her amazing intellect is permanently twisted and stunted by her upbringing as an idiotic Southern belle.
* DeterminedHomesteader: Her father tells her, "Land's the only thing that matters. It's the only thing that lasts!" And everything she does is ultimately to protect Tara, particularly in the book in which we are frequently reminded that she and Melanie actually own the house in Atlanta jointly and could abandon Tara to move there at any time.
* DeterminedWidow: Somewhat different than the usual case in that she ''is'' the hero, and purposely using the inherent sympathy of her situation to manipulate others.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Scarlett cannot stand being pitied.
* DrowningMySorrows: She actually uses this term in ''Scarlett'' when she becomes an alcoholic while trying to pretend to herself that Rhett will come back to Atlanta for her.
* FatalFlaw: Scarlett and her inability to understand the emotional motivations of anyone, including herself.
%% * FemmeFatale[=/=]TheVamp: Scarlett is one or the other, depending on your interpretation. In either case, she's a rare example of a protagonist with said role.
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* {{Greed}}: Scarlett becomes obsessed with acquiring more and more material wealth to make sure that both she and her family will "never go hungry again." Somewhat more sympathetic than most cases as she has obviously been deeply traumatized (even years later, she routinely has nightmares about hunger and poverty) and is trying to protect herself in the only way she knows, but it still drives her to do things that are incredibly morally dubious.
%% * GreenEyedMonster: She is this when watching Ashley and Mellie from afar.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Both Scarlett and Rhett. At least there is a HypocrisyNod to what both are doing throughout the main novel. In the 'sequels' however, the hypocrisy gets worse the further on you go. For example Scarlett handles it very clunkily.
* IGaveMyWord: Scarlett promised Ashley to take care of Mellie during her pregnancy. Despite Scarlett's various amoral behavior, she does have a warped moral code that she takes very seriously, mostly the result of her upbringing; making a promise is very Serious Business and she prides herself on keeping her word.
* KickTheDog: Scarlett is not a very nice person:
** In the first chapter she is revealed to have stolen another girl's near-fiancé merely because it irritated her to see a man showing interest in anyone but her. A girl who's neither beautiful nor popular and is said to have no chance getting another man but him.
** Manipulating two relatively innocent men into marrying her, one of whom is engaged to her sister.
** Spending her second marriage running and ruining the life of her husband.
** Emotionally neglecting her children from her first two marriages.
** Contracting prison labor for her sawmill and enabling an overseer she knows abuses the prisoners.
** And then going straight against her beloved Ashley's expressed will and manipulating him into working for/with her.
** Her brutally cruel treatment of Rhett after Bonnie's death—she outright calls him a murderer.
%% * LiteralMinded: Scarlett to some extent; lampshaded by Ashley and Rhett many times throughout the book.
* LoveEpiphany: Scarlett finally has one when she realizes that she doesn't love Ashley, and has always loved Rhett. She also sort of has one with Melanie, but she realizes that Melanie is her best friend, and has always been there for Scarlett, defending her. Unfortunately, both of these come far too late.
* MoralityPet: While she usually treats her fellows white people like trash, she treats black people far more decently, even to the point that Pork, her father's personal servant, told her when she gave him Gerald's watch as a present that if she would have treated white people like that, her life would have been much more pleasant.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Scarlett is her middle name. Her first name is Katie.
* OperationJealousy: Scarlett marries Charles to make Ashley jealous.
%% * PleaseDontLeaveMe: A famous example of the trope. See the trope's page quote.
%% * SexlessMarriage: Rhett and Scarlett's marriage comes to fill this trope.
* SouthernBelle: Perhaps the most iconic example of the "Mauvaise Belle" ever seen both in literature and onscreen.
* WhatIsThisFeeling?: Scarlett (in the novel) is described as undergoing various emotional sensations that are clearly indicative of her physical and later emotional attraction to Rhett, but fails to understand them, partially due to the way that women were emotionally repressed at the time, partially because Scarlett is perhaps the least introspective character ever.
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[[folder:Rhett Butler]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is."'']]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ClarkGable

A wealthy bachelor who's older than Scarlett. He made his fortune through professional gambling, his brothel and war supplies.
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* AdaptationalBadass: The book mostly describe his badass moments off-screen, the movie gives Rhett some onscreen (particularly in the Siege of Atlanta. While the book's description of escaping the city is no laughing matter (as artillery is being bombarded and union soldiers are approaching with the city's populace fleeing in hysteria), in the film blindfolding a panicking horse and leading it through a an alley of burning buildings and he fends off four bandits intent on robbing their wagon during the escape, knocking them out with single blows. All while a STORAGE of ammunition are set on fire (which destroyed pretty much the entire studio set block where the scene was filmed, so kudos for the stuntman who did this)!
* AdaptationalCurves: Inverted by Clark Gable who, while having the basic description of Rhett in the books, had average built for this film. In the books, Rhett is described as an all-round strong large man with muscular arms and a well-built body.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Played straight forward as opposed to Scarlett. Much of his vile acts such as the duel before the story where he killed a Southern girl's brother, his murder of a yankee and freedman after the war, and his various acts of swindling are all removed from the film. In addition the film focused primarily on his charmy dashing side and romantic moments for Scarlett. So much that the movie led to the notion of Rhett being the "ideal Southern gentleman" and as the "ideal romantic lead".
* AnalogyBackfire: At one point, Dr. Meade argues that General Johnston cannot be dislodged from the Kennesaw Mountain
* BettyAndVeronica: With Ashley, though it is also a deconstruction [[spoiler: when he does get married to Scarlett and she still pines for Ashley.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Rhett does this a couple of times, but never completely successful.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Scarlett and Rhett.
* BlackSheep: Rhett's prominent, wealthy (before the war) family managed to blacklist him not only from their own estate, but the entire city of Charleston. Subverted in that for all his denouncement of Southern morals and norms, Rhett actually helped his family in secret during tough times in the war and Rhett is probably the most egalitarian character in the whole novel, viewing blacks as being far more capable and intelligent than most people in the time did. He is also ahead of his time in regards to women equality.
* ByronicHero: He's a TallDarkAndHandsome man with a DarkAndTroubledPast as a social outcast because of his unconventional opinions and actions, which often sound [[ValuesResonance fine for modern audience]] [[BornInTheWrongCentury but awful for contemporary people]]. He's also morally ambiguous in his and quite opportunistic, but [[AtLeastIAdmitIt at least he admits this]] instead of being an hypocrite like most of the people around him and lives to his own interpretation of honor. He's also [[HiddenDepths honorable and selfless to the people he cares the most]], and there are glimpse of his struggling conscience and occasional self-deprecation. Not to mention his self-destructive romance with equally impetuous Scarlett.
* CannotSpitItOut: Rhett does confess his feelings to Scarlett a few times, but he invariably subverts his confessions by chickening out and convincing her he's making fun of her. He justifies this by saying that if she knew about his feelings, she'd make his life a living hell; but it becomes more and more obvious as the story progresses that she's already done that.
** Not to mention that Rhett outright lies, once or twice, when Scarlett asks him point-blank if he's in love with her. Once, when Scarlett reveals that she's been considering an abortion, Rhett reacts in outrage and horror, and then when the amazed Scarlett tells him she didn't know he cared that much about her, he switches gears and casually replies that he just doesn't want to lose a good investment.
* CasualDangerDialogue: Rhett, during the prelude to Sherman's March on Atlanta.
* CharacterDevelopment: He realizes in turn that WantingIsBetterThanHaving in terms of his relationship with Scarlett, and knows that his own role in PoorCommunicationKills ruins their relationship.
* TheCharmer: When Rhett wants people to like him, he's all but irresistible; but usually he can't be bothered.
* TheDandy: Pittypat claims that Rhett is one in the book.
* DeadpanSnarker: Rhett in regards to nearly everything, from the impossibility of the Confederacy winning the war to the ridiculous expectations put on women in the 1860s. Routinely, no one understands his comments/everyone is offended by them.
* DefiledForever: Part of the reason why Rhett is not received by any fine family in Charleston is that he refused to marry a girl he had been out with for too long without a chaperone
* DestructiveRomance: Rhett and Scarlett. In Scarlett this trope is deconstructed and played with continuously. The conclusion is basically that the most destructive force on earth to these two very strong and determined people is their love for each other. And then it becomes quite literally a fact of 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger' by the end.
* DrowningMySorrows: Right after a misunderstanding has led the entire town to believe that Ashley and Scarlett are having an affair, gets really, really drunk.
** He drinks when he believes Scarlett is about to die from a miscarriage that he is responsible for.
** In the book he gets drunk after Bonnie's death.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Rhett, Despite all his other moral failings, is very fond of his mother.
* FriendToAllChildren: When Scarlett laments her second pregnancy (with Ella) and declares that she hates babies, Rhett admits that he likes them and we see this throughout the book--his fondness for Wade and Ella, his utter devotion to Bonnie. It makes the moment where he declares his ward "a perfect little hellion who I wish had never been born" a very OutOfCharacter moment.
* HandsomeLech: Very much downplayed in the movie.
* HollywoodAtheist: Averted; Rhett is privately an atheist, but not particularly vocal or strident. He does tease Scarlett when she is melodramatically convinced she's going to hell but his criticism is more centered around her obvious hypocrisy.
* KickTheDog:
** He's often downright verbally abusive to Scarlett. For someone who loves her, he doesn't seem to like her very much, as well as simultaneously resenting her for not returning his feelings.
** Threatens her with physical violence on several occasions and ultimately carries it out the night he forces himself on her—this is after threatening to tear her "limb from limb" or "crush her skull".
** Pulls a disappearing act afterwards and when he finally shows up, throws it in her face that he slept with another woman, completely oblivious to the fact that Scarlett wants to work things out with him.
** He rebuffs Scarlett every time she genuinely tries to reach out to him. The most striking example is when she tells him she's pregnant again. Until then, she's been happy about it and hoping that they have a chance to reconcile. His reaction? To ask who the father is — knowing full well the child is the result of him raping her — and to tell her, "Cheer up, maybe you'll have a miscarriage."
*** This is somewhat a case of KickTheSonOfABitch. In addition to being emotionally cruel to Rhett and attempting to manipulate him (if not returning the love to the man who genuinely cares about her back is not hard enough), as Rhett rightfully attacks her as "an irresponsible mother" she is so obsessed with chasing Ashley she fails to realize how screwed up her children are becoming from neglect. Not even counting her hidden contempt of Melanie, her somewhat ungrateful demeanor to Mammy, and her refusal to talk to Rhett when he is actually willing to listen, some of his abusive demeanor to her is somewhat understanding.
* LadykillerInLove: Rhett is one of these in regards to Scarlett.
* ManipulativeBastard: Scarlett and Rhett both revel in this. Naturally, it makes their relationship somewhat difficult.
* OnlySaneMan: Particularly with his opinions that the South cannot win the war. Not that anybody listens. Also counts after the war in regards to Southerner's reaction to Northern policies in the reconstruction with the KKK and plans to resume the war which Rhett describes as "damned foolishness".
* ProfessionalGambler: Rhett was one of these early in his life after being cast out by his father.
* ReallyGetsAround: Rhett owns a brothel.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Perhaps one of the most iconic in film, Rhett leaves Scarlett for good at the end of the story, uttering the line "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
* TheSocialExpert: During the war, everyone despises him for being a smuggler. After the war is over and Bonnie is born, Rhett wants her to be eventually accepted in the high society, so he ingratiates himself with them with little effort.
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[[folder:Melanie Wilkes, née Hamilton]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Be kind to Captain Butler. He loves you so."'']]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/OliviaDeHavilland

Scarlett's naive sister-in-law and, eventually, best friend.
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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Melanie is very fond of this idea.
* BettyAndVeronica: With Scarlet.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Melanie's reaction to Scarlett killing a Union deserter was "I'm glad you killed him!" And she pulled out a pistol when she thought Yankee soldiers were about to break into her home.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Ashley and Melanie.
* ConvenientMiscarriage: Melanie has a miscarriage which eventually leads to her death.
* {{Determinator}}: More subtly.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Melanie having to strip naked so her nightgown can be used to mop up the blood of the dead soldier. While her nudity is covered by angles and objects, back in the 1930s (when this film was released) this was already pushing the edge in acceptable "sex-related" onscreen scenes.
* TheIngenue: Melanie is a perpetual ingenue.
* KissingCousins: Members of the Wilkes family marry their cousins whenever possible, one of the main reasons Scarlett initially loses out to Melanie.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Melanie is the Light Feminine, while Scarlett is the Dark Feminine.
* NobleBigot: As kind-hearted as she is, she holds some incredibly racist views of blacks and women. However her racist and sexist beliefs are not violent and contemptable in nature and represents the "paternal" type in which she believes blacks are by nature too inferior to last on their own and its duty for whites to look after them.
* ThePollyanna: She has a much more naive outlook on life than Scarlett, and she's a much happier person overall.
* ProperLady: As befits a foil for Scarlett.
* ScreamingBirth: Melanie gives birth like this, but it's because her body shape is unfit for it. Averted with Scarlett, who gives birth easily, with almost no pain.
* SilkHidingSteel: Briefly implied with Melanie, the most kind-hearted and frail of the family. Midway through the film a Union soldier breaks into the house to rape and steal. He encounters Scarlett, who shoots him with her pistol... and behind her is Melanie, still recovering from having given birth and brandishing a sword.
* SouthernBelle: A much, ''much'' nicer example than Scarlett.
* SpoiledSweet: Stays sweet when she lose her fortunes
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth
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[[folder:Ashley Wilkes]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Yes, there is something. Something you love better than me although you may not know it. Tara."'']]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/LeslieHoward

The man with whom Scarlett is obsessed. Gentlemanly yet indecisive, he loves Scarlett too, but finds he has more in common with Melanie, and eventually marries her, much to Scarlett's dismay.
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* TheAce: After the war, he's much less effective when scaled down in socioeconomic status.
** [[DeconstructedTrope And his old-fashioned values]] [[SouthernGentleman are antiquated and useless in the New South.]]
* AdaptationalWimp: The movie cuts out much of Ashley's wartime letters describing his experience in the battlefield and other events highlighting his strengths of character, instead focusing on the incredibly few moments of romance he had with Scarlet in the novel. Combined with Leslie Howard's aging appearance and subpar acting, this led to many people who watch the film to bash Ashley as a wimp, often stating they cannot understand why Scarlet would prefer him over the vibrant Rhett. While he had fatal flaws, the original novel makes it clear Ashley has some clear moral character and was a valiant man in the battlefield.
* BettyAndVeronica: With Rhett.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Ashley and Melanie.
* CannotSpitItOut: Scarlett would have given up on Ashley if he had just told her he truly loves Melanie.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Unlucky Scarlett in regards to Ashley, although Victorious Melanie likely knew him just as long.
* CulturedWarrior: Ashley is the leader of his troop due to his excellent marksmanship and leadership skills, but most of his men find his habit of reading literature and discussing philosophy very strange.
* KissingCousins: Members of the Wilkes family marry their cousins whenever possible, one of the main reasons Scarlett initially loses out to Melanie.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Ashley is the Noble Male, while Rhett is the Roguish Male.
* OfficerAndAGentleman
* PrincelyYoungMan
* SouthernGentleman: Ashley is the most prominent example, but seems a deconstruction of the trope.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Scarlett blackmailed Ashley into becoming her business partner by crying about it to Melanie.
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[[folder:Mammy]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"If you don't care what folks says about this family, I does! I has told ya and told ya that you can always tell a lady by the way she eats in front of folks like a bird, and I ain't aimin' for you to go to Mr. John Wilkerson's and eat like a field hand and gobble like a hog!"'']]
->'''Played by:''' Hattie [=McDaniel=]

The housemaid of the O'Hara family.
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* {{Maid}}: The O'Hara family's main house servant.
* {{Mammy}}: Might not be the TropeNamer, but she's definitely the TropeCodifier.
* OldRetainer: She's been the housemaid of the O'Haras since Scarlett's birth at the very least. She even stays after the Civil War the abolition of slavery.
* OnlySaneMan: Perhaps the most level-headed person living in Tara.
* SassyBlackWoman: She's pretty outspoken, especially considering the fact that she's a slave before the Civil War. That said, in the movie, she is arguably the most sensible and level-headed character. Even Rhett points out she's got [[OnlySaneMan more common sense than virtually everyone else]] in the household.
* ServileSnarker: She's a servant, and she can get snarky sometimes.
* UndyingLoyalty: She's loyal to the O'Hara family to the very end.
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[[folder: Prissy]]
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-->'''Played by:''' Butterfly [=McQueen=]

The slave who accompanies Scarlett to Charleston.
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* LastSecondWordSwap: After another of Scarlett's orders, she starts singing, and holds the "f" at the beginning of the song as though she were about to say "[[PrecisionFStrike fuck you]]".
* TheLoad: She screams and shrieks a lot and does nothing to help.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: It's implied that she's not as useless as she seems, and appears to passive-aggressively defy Scarlett's orders. She stops whining and becomes calm very quickly whenever she's told what she wants to hear. She also pretends not to know about "birthing babies", only to casually dish out useful childbirth advice at a later, less convenient time.
* ScreamingWoman: During her, Scarlett and Melanie's exodus to Tara.
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* CoolBigSis: Towards her youngest sister Carreen. Suellen... not so much.
* DaddysGirl: Gerald and Scarlett.

* FemmeFatale[=/=]TheVamp: Scarlett is one or the other, depending on your interpretation. In either case, she's a rare example of a protagonist with said role.

* GreenEyedMonster: She is this when watching Ashley and Mellie from afar.
* GreenEyes: Scarlett, her eyes are very relevant to her personality, always wanting more money, and having a jealous personality.

* KickTheDog: Scarlett does this constantly in both mediums:

** Heck, in the first chapter she is revealed to have stolen another girl's near-fiancé merely because it irritated her to see a man showing interest in anyone but her. A girl who's neither beautiful nor popular and is said to have no chance getting another man but him.
** Let's not forget her brutally cruel treatment of Rhett after Bonnie's death—she outright calls him a murderer.
* LiteralMinded: Scarlett to some extent; lampshaded by Ashley and Rhett many times throughout the book.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: A famous example of the trope. See the trope's page quote.
* SexlessMarriage: Rhett and Scarlett's marriage comes to fill this trope.

* CoolBigSis: Towards her youngest sister Carreen, at least to the point where she'll stand up for Careen her after Suellen tries to push off her work onto her.

* OldRetainer: She's been the housemaid of the O'Haras since Scarlett's birth at the very least. She even stays after the Civil War.

* SassyBlackWoman: She's pretty outspoken, especially considering the fact that she's a slave before the Civil War. That said, in the movie, she is arguably the most sensible and level-headed character. Even Rhett points out [[OnlySaneMan she's got more common sense than virtually everyone else in the house hold]].
* ServileSnarker: She can get snarky sometimes.

* SassyBlackWoman: She's pretty outspoken, especially considering the fact that she's a slave before the Civil War. That said, in the movie, she is arguably the most sensible and level-headed character). Even Rhett points out [[OnlySaneMan she's got more common sense than virtually everyone else in the house hold]].

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Scarlett (in the book "not a beautiful woman") is played in The Film of the Book by silver screen beauty Creator/VivienLeigh. However, throughout the book, Scarlett is still frequently described as pretty or handsome, so it isn't as extreme as most cases.

* SpiritedYoungLady: Scarlett, though she may be a darker version of the trope.

* AdaptationalBadass: The book mostly describe his badass moments off-screen, the movie gives Rhett some onscreen CrowningMomentOfAwesome particularly in the Siege of Atlanta. While the book's description of escaping the city is no laughing matter (as artillery is being bombarded and union soldiers are approaching with the city's populace fleeing in hysteria), in the film blindfolding a panicking horse and leading it through a an alley of burning buildings and he fends off four bandits intent on robbing their wagon during the escape, knocking them out with single blows. All while a STORAGE of ammunition are set on fire (which destroyed pretty much the entire studio set block where the scene was filmed, so kudos for the stuntman who did this)!

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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: She was supposed to be this originally; due to ValuesDissonance, not today.

* SassyBlackWoman: She's pretty outspoken, especially considering the fact that she's a slave before the Civil War.

* OldRetainer: She's been the housemaid of the O'Haras since Scarlett's birth at the very least.