Shrewd, Selfish Scarlett: A Complicated Heroine by Karen Grigsby Bates Totally interesting NPR story that I heard today about one of my favorite (complex) characters of all time. Necessary evils: Whether plotting a conquest at a picnic or engineering a comeback from poverty, Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) had no qualms about doing what it took. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/culturevultures\/images\/scarlett.jpg\")
\nNecessary evils: Whether plotting a conquest at a picnic or engineering a comeback from poverty, Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) had no qualms about doing what it took.<\/em><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/culturevultures\/images\/scarlett2.jpg\")
\n<\/em>In mourning: Scarlett broods while Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) woos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"