The winner of this week's Raving Queen Bitch Of The Week Award is lifted from classic fiction and film. Anyone on here recognizes these two? Or at least the one on the right?
The winner is, of course, from "Gone With The Wind." But it is NOT Scarlett!
"Whaaaaaaaaat?," I can already hear some of you saying!!!!!!!!!!!!
Au contraire, my pets! Scarlett was no bitch! She was a survivor, and to survive you have to push! She might very well have been the Anna Wintour of her day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, the real bitch in the story, and the winner of the Raving Queen Bitch Of The Week Award, is Scarlett's sister, Suellen O'Hara, played memorably by Evelyn Keyes.
In the movie, Suellen is catty, nagging, envious, yet still acts like she is the Grand Lady and butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. Even when Scarlett returned to the ravaged Tara, and she and Careen were ill with the fever that took their mother, Suellen acted like she was still the Plantation Princess, and times had not changed.
But wait! In the book, she is even worse. Because, there, she causes her father's death, making him sign some kind of oath that would render him disloyal to the cause of the Confederacy, but land them some money! When it comes time to sign, the addled man finally comes to his senses, disowns his bitch of a daughter, and rides off, enraged, resulting in his death.
The entire community hates Sullen more than it ever disliked Scarlett. and she is forevermore a family pariah, taken away in marriage by a character not in the movie, Will Benteen!!!!!!!!!!
Frank Kennedy may have been foolish enough to marry Scarlett, but at least he died a quick death. Marriage to Suellen would have been slow, psychological torture that would have done him in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, the REAL bitch of the Margaret Mitchell story is Suellen!
No better winner could be asked for, this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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