Scarlet's character in Gone with the Wind "My dear, I don't care", (718) Rhett Butler says this infamous quote to Scarlet O' Hara at the end of Gone with the Wind (1934), when the woman finally entrusted her soul to him. The novel Gone with the Wind (1934) by Margaret Mitchell is a classic about the difficult times endured during and after the Civil War. Scarlet lives in the Confederacy and everyone is there to fight for her noble cause. Young southern belle Scarlet O'Hara is forced to do things she never thought a girl of her class and nature would have to do. Throughout the novel, she faces serious problems. Scarlet says clearly: I won't think about it today, I'll think about it tomorrow, because tomorrow is another day, which of course she never does. However, it is this thought that keeps his character strong, even if he sometimes lives in a daydream. Without telling herself, Scarlet would have collapsed from the start of the war. Scarlet lives for the future, not the past. This is what makes his character admirable and noble. At first, the reader might think that Scarlet's character is snobbish and helpless. Through her determination, she forces others to change their opinions about her. At first, she is a young and beautiful girl of sixteen, with a height of seventeen inches, the smallest in the county. At parties, she is never surrounded by less than a dozen young men, to whom she never lets know who she really loves. The other girls find Scarlet heartless, the way she leads all these boys on, but Scarlet doesn't pay them any attention. She knows they are just bitter with jealousy. She really loves Ashley Wilkes, but he has to announce his engagement... middle of paper... a cause of his own. While many characters in the book fought and died for the greater cause, she cared more about her own. Scarlet had to take care of Tara and her family. Although many consider her loathsome, looking at her actions, she has become empowered with words. The once young and carefree girl was forced to marry twice for money, not for love. When Scarlet finally lets her one true love in life, Rhett Butler, know how she feels about him, realizing too late how horribly she has acted, he finally puts Scarlet in her place by stating " My darling, I don’t care.” damn." At these words, Scarlet still doesn't break down. After everything she's been through, she knows what to do. She tells herself that tomorrow is another day and that tomorrow she'll get Rhett back. Works Cited Mitchell, Margaret . Gone with the Wind New York: The Macmillan Company.,1994