Girls, I Have To Wonder--Could Annie Wilkes Have Been Descended From Ashley Wilkes?????????

                             Rhett says "I don't give a damn;" Scarlett says, "As God is my witness....;" Melanie and Bonnie die, while Aunt Pitttypat faints, doles out fine Madeira wine,  and hauls those enormous hat boxes out of the house, during the Atlanta evacuation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Even Suellen is a bitch, and Emmy Slattery is White Trash-y!!!!!!!

                               Almost every character in "Gone With The Wind" gets their share of  dramatic attention.  Not so, Ashley Wilkes, the story's most annoying character, who just mopes around, masochistically tormenting himself with sexual hypocrisy and indecision, while doing  an injustice to both Melanie and Scarlett--I am telling you, this character is a real crepe paper hanger!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               I wonder if there was mental illness in the Wilkes family?????????  And if it trickled down through the generations???????????????

                                I think so, darlings!!!!!!!!  I mean, if you think about it, Ashley, in today's parlance, seemed surely to be suffering from what  would be called clinical depression, with, thanks to his war experiences, a little PTSD thrown in!  Which you can be sure Dr. Mead, too busy, anyway, nursing those wounded soldiers down by the old car shed, hadn't the foggiest notion of, anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                The Wilkes were not big on facing things, Ashley in particular.  So, you can just bet this instability trickled down through the ages, (wonder what happened to Ashley and Melanie's son, Beau????), and maybe a Wilkes or two emigrated to California, so that, in the twentieth century, by the time Annie is born, this emotional disequilibrium has been fine toned!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                When it comes to mental illness, Annie, immortalized in Stephen King's novel, "Misery," and defined for screen immortality by Kathy Bates, is the crowning achievement of the Wilkes' dysfunction!

                                  Honey, she has it all--sociopathy, BPD (that's Borderline Personality Disorder, dears!!!!!!!!!) with a penchant for violent laced self-righteousness thrown in--so she can't connect with anyone!  No wonder her warmest relationship is with Misery, the pig!!!!!!  And, if I were she, I would run off the Wilkes farm, but quick, because, if triggered detrimentally, poor Misery could end up as the next loin of pork for dinner!  And I just love her, in the movie!  I wouldn't want THAT to happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                   I have to wonder if Stephen King ever thought of Ashley Wilkes during the writing of "Misery;" I know, at times, I have!  And, if he were to admit it, then that points to a blood  kin relationship between these two rather disturbed characters!!!!!!!!!!!! Personally, I would not want to spend time with either one!  Though, at least, Annie is exciting, in her own, fun, twisted way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    And, get this--their initials are both AW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                   You DO have to wonder, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!