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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: terrible memories of Wade being born months after poor Charlie was
dead? How could she have been so thoughtless?
"Let me help you undress, dearest," she said humbly. "And I'll rub
your head for you."
"You leave me alone," said Scarlett, her face like stone. And
Melanie, bursting into tears of self-condemnation, fled the room,
leaving Scarlett to a tearless bed, with wounded pride,
disillusionment and jealousy for bedfellows.
She thought that she could not live any longer in the same house
with the woman who was carrying Ashley's child, thought that she
would go home to Tara, home, where she belonged. She did not see
Gone With the Wind |
