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Rhett and is
" Rhett Butler is accused of being a " damned Scallawag.
In the early years of the Civil War, Rhett is called a " scoundrel " for his " selfish gains " profiteering as a blockade-runner.
As a Scallawag, Rhett is despised.
The most passionate and virile character in the novel is Rhett with whom Margaret Mitchell associates " dark sexuality " and the " black devil ".
Rhett is a " terrifying faceless black bulk " when he appears before Scarlett in a drunken jealous rage on the night of Ashley's party.
Rhett and Scarlett's bedroom scene ( Chapter 54 ) is often read as a rape that was meant to suggest Reconstruction fear of black on white rape in the South.
Although Rhett believes the war is a lost cause, he is blockade running for the profit in it.
Everyone at the dance is shocked that Rhett would bid for Scarlett, the widow still dressed in black.
Scarlett tells Prissy to go find Rhett, but she is afraid to " go runnin ' roun ' in de dahk ".
She goes to Atlanta to find him only to learn Rhett is in jail.
She is swigging brandy from Aunt Pitty's swoon bottle when Rhett comes to call.
Then " with real hate in her eyes " she tells Rhett she is going to have a baby, a baby she does not want.
In the conversation with him, she comes away believing Ashley still loves her and is jealous of her intimate relations with Rhett, which excites her.
From then on, Scarlett and Rhett sleep in separate bedrooms, and when Bonnie is two years old, she sleeps in a little bed beside Rhett's bed ( with the light on all night long because she is afraid of the dark ).
Rhett turns his attention towards Bonnie, dotes on her, spoils her, and worries about her reputation when she is older.
Not wanting Rhett to know she is fearful of him, Scarlett throws back a drink and gets up from her chair to go back to her bedroom.
Scarlett tells Rhett he is jealous of Ashley and Rhett accuses Scarlett of " crying for the moon " over Ashley.
Scarlett finds herself missing him, but she is still unsure if Rhett loves her, having told her so when he was drunk.
Rhett sarcastically asks her if the father is Ashley.
Rhett is remorseful, believing he has killed her.
Though she misses the old Rhett at times, Scarlett is content to leave well enough alone.
Rhett rides his horse around town with Bonnie in front of him, but the household mammy, " Mammy ," insists it is not fitting for a girl to ride a horse with her dress flying up.

Rhett and man
Then Scarlett meets Rhett Butler, a man who has a reputation as a rogue.
Scarlett knows only one man who has enough money to help her pay the taxes, Rhett Butler.
They speak with an old Southern American accent taught to them by their previous visitor, the dead man, Professor Rhutt Betlah ( a wordplay on Rhett Butler ) from Birmingham, Alabama, who had discovered their valley during the late 19th century.
Two weeks later, Scarlett is shocked when she sees Rhett while she is running Frank's store, free from the Yankees and amused that she has rushed into yet another marriage with a man she does not love, much less the fact that she stole him right out from under her sister's nose.
Rhett saves Ashley Wilkes and several others by alibiing them to the Yankee captain, a man with whom he has played cards on several occasions.
By the summer of 1862, Melanie and Scarlett have been re-acquainted to a man they met during Melanie's engagement celebration: Captain Rhett Butler, at the time about 35 years old.
Charleston legend has it that George Trenholm, the original owner of the McBee House, the mansion on the school property, was the man on whom Margaret Mitchell based the character Rhett Butler in her novel, Gone with the Wind.
Rhett later tells her that " when a man survived something he thought he wouldn't, he does and says crazy things ," and that he didn't mean it.

Rhett and Scarlett
As to what became of her star-crossed lovers, Rhett and Scarlett, after the novel ended, Mitchell did not know, and said, " For all I know, Rhett may have found someone else who was less difficult.
Rhett had been alone in the library when Ashley and Scarlett entered, and felt it wiser to not make his presence known while the argument took place.
Rhett applauds Scarlett for the unladylike spirit she displayed with Ashley.
Infuriated and humiliated, Scarlett tells Rhett, " You aren't fit to wipe Ashley's boots!
Scarlett encounters Rhett Butler again at a dance for the Confederacy.
The men must bid for a dance with a lady and Rhett bids " one hundred fifty dollars-in gold " for a dance with Scarlett.
" Prissy then finds Rhett, and Scarlett begs him to take herself, Wade, Melanie, Beau, and Prissy to Tara.
Part way to Tara, Rhett has a change of heart and he abandons Scarlett to enlist in the army.
" Before she can cry any further, Rhett asks Scarlett to marry him saying, " I always intended having you, one way or another.
One year later, Scarlett and Rhett announce their engagement.
Scarlett wonders why Rhett married her.
Scarlett returns home and tells Rhett she does not want more children.
Before the party has even begun rumors of an adulterous relationship between Ashley and Scarlett have started, and Rhett and Melanie have heard the gossip.
Rhett, more drunk than Scarlett has ever seen him, returns home the evening of the party long after Scarlett.

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