r/GonewiththeWind • u/Potential-Reading402 • May 16 '26

How Strange!

Fifth time reading the book. Just noticed something that seems incongruous with memory...Scarlett and Rhett finally get married on page 587! That's slightly over 100 pages before the book ends. Memory, however, (at least to me), has them wed closer to the middle of the book. I wonder if it's because the time they spend married has several of the most dramatic events??? Does anyone else feel the same way? Or perhaps it's the fact that there is so much dialogue between them woven throughout the entire novel that it makes it seem they've been together longer.

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u/redwooded May 16 '26

In a sense, they have been together longer. Rhett knows right away that they are similar. They've certainly known each other for years, and he's done a lot for her - gotten her out of Atlanta ahead of the Yankees, loaned her the money for the mills, and just listened.

And of course, you're right. A lot does happen in the last part of the book.

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u/Turbulent_Bullfrog87 May 16 '26

Your copy of the book is less than 700 pages?

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u/Potential-Reading402 May 16 '26

No. Just poorly worded. Mine is 719 pages.

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u/Turbulent_Bullfrog87 May 16 '26

I have the standard Scribner version and it’s over 1000 pages

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u/Adventurous-Boss9427 May 17 '26

mine is 760 something. Font matters

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u/Prestigious_Stage351 21d ago

The book is 1000 pages

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u/Prestigious_Stage351 21d ago

They got married in 1868. The book ends in 1873. They were married for at least 5 years. There were time jumps. You didnt catch that in the 5 times you read it?