Gone with the Wind discussion

1. The death of the Tarleton twins.
Surely, surely - there couldn't be three "Tarleton" names on that list. Perhaps - perhaps the hurried printer had repeated the name by error. But no. There they were. "Tarleton - Brenton. Lieutenant." "Tarleton - Stuart, Corporal." "Tarleton - Thomas, private." And Boyd, dead the first year of the war, was buried God knew where in Virginia. All the Tarleton boys gone. Tom and the lazy, long-legged wins, with their love of gossip and their absurd pratical jokes, and Boyd, who had the grace of a dancing-master and tongue of a wasp.

2. The death of Darcy Meade.
(Darcy Meade's letter) "Pa, could you manage to get me a pair of boots? I've been bare-footed for two weeks now and I don't see any prospects of getting another pair. If I didn't have such big feet I could get them off dead Yankees like other boys, but I've never yet found a Yankee whose feet were near as big as mine."
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"He won't need those boots now," she (Mrs. Meade) said.

3. The death of John Wilkes.
She (Scarlett) was so fond of Mr. Wilkes. Once, long ago, she had hoped to be his daughter-in-law.
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He (John Wiles) swung on to Nellie and cantered off, his hat in his hand, his silver hair bare to the rain.
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He (Uncle Henry) hauled from this pockets a heavy gold watch with dangling seals, a small miniature of the long-dead Mrs. Wilkes and a pair of massive cuff buttons. At the sight of the watch which she had seen in John Wilkes' hands a thousand times, the full realization came over Scarlett that Ashley's father was really dead.

Number 1, the twins were full of life and so sure that the south would win. This paragraph was sending a very different message.

Jim wrote: "Number 1, the twins were full of life and so sure that the south would win. This paragraph was sending a very different message."

Also they appeared at the very beginning of the story. :(

I would choose number 2 out of these choices, but (view spoiler)[I've always thought the saddest part was Rhett not letting them bury Bonnie. (hide spoiler)]

Kirby wrote: "I would choose number 2 out of these choices, but I've always thought the saddest part was Rhett not letting them bury Bonnie."

Yes, that's also a sad part, which I haven't read yet. :)
The men I listed above were killed in the war. :'(

Oh, crap crap crap. I am so sorry! :( I hate getting spoiled and I can't believe I did it to you, I am soooo sorry!

Kirby wrote: "Oh, crap crap crap. I am so sorry! :( I hate getting spoiled and I can't believe I did it to you, I am soooo sorry!"

Hey Kirby, that's all right!
Somehow, John Wilkes' death made me cry. :(

Thanks for the understanding! :)

I don't think I cried over John, but I did really like him- he just had a sort of nobility about him.

I think the paragraph when Scarlet finds Twin Oaks burned down - she recalls the party there and the pride they all had, and the plantation is very symbolic throughout the story.