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Billie Piper and Christopher Eccelston on the relationship between The Doctor and Rose.

✨The Original Pick Me Girl ✨

Scarlett’s character is defined by her trying and failing to fit in with other women - the pinnacle being her mother, and later, Melanie: she spends most of the novel having a rude awakening that she is more like her hot-headed Irish father than her genteel southern-lady mother. This is something she spends a large part of the novel fighting with herself and Rhett about - “I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.”

Scarlett is also too independent (even in spite of herself) to be someone who seeks approval from or wants validation from men: her society demanded that she entrap a husband and she did so by behaving how a lady of the time should - not by asserting how unlike them she is. Frank is horrified when she proves that she is good at maths and running a business - “Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.”

The point is that the only man who sees and loves Scarlett for who she truly is is Rhett; all of her other beaux believe her to be a perfect southern belle. Had she behaved in a pick me manner to stand out from the rest; none of them would have gone near her.