Gerald O'Hara is known only as "Planter" to Cynara, whose mother is Scarlett's nanny, Mammy. Melanie is "Mealy Mouth." Belle Watling, the madam, has become Beauty, and she's a lesbian. The other great love of Scarlett's life, Ashley Wilkes, here becomes "Dreamy Gentleman." And he's gay, which does explain why he's the one man Scarlett can't ensnare. has lost all Captain Butler's sardonic wit, his swash and his buckle. If it seems unlikely that Rhett, who tells Scarlett he's not a marrying man but decides he finally has to catch her between husbands, would clamor to marry a woman who's not considered to be of his class, that's because he's not Rhett. Rhett, known here as "R.," has been keeping Cynara as his mistress, and he wants to marry her. Scarlett herself is known as "Other," and she's been reduced to a shadowy sad sack who boo-hoos because Rhett has left her and then enters a decline when Mammy dies. The heroine is Cynara, also called Cinnamon or Cindy, whom Randall has invented as the mixed-race half sister of Scarlett.
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