“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”~ Margaret Mitchell from Gone with the Wind.
The ominously memorable line from the Hollywood version of ‘Gone with the Wind’ placed its male protagonist, Rhett Butler in an unforgettable scene. How unthinkable it was that anyone could deliver such a blatantly unsympathetic line to the beautiful, distraught leading lady. Her world had come crashing down in flames as the Civil War burned out the remnants of the Old South leaving her bereft of everything that had made her life what it was. Nothing would be the same from the ruined land to the crumbling values, and the thought that there were people who didn’t care was extraordinary. But we also sided with Rhett as he moved out the door into the devastation that awaited, feeling it was time to move on and start something new.
