tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156452579073833353.post1653768121056199298..comments2011-08-07T15:11:29.064-05:00Comments on How We Do Run On: The Quotable Rhett Butler: Call Him IshmaelThe Old Guardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10862747970556035077noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156452579073833353.post-5875684290203110712010-10-27T12:07:39.609-05:002010-10-27T12:07:39.609-05:00I think on some level he resented it. Being cast o...I think on some level he resented it. Being cast out made him what he was and maybe on some level he's not entirely happy with who he became. By the end of the book he does say he wants to back to Charleston and find some part of that old life that he was unfairly cast out of.Molly McGeadyhttp://www.facebook.com/molly.mcgeadynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156452579073833353.post-17501365739086861452010-10-27T11:52:00.477-05:002010-10-27T11:52:00.477-05:00As Hagar and Ishmael moved to Arabia, the Angel ap...As Hagar and Ishmael moved to Arabia, the Angel appeared and told Hagar: "...arise, lift up the lad and hold him fast in your hand: for I will make him a great nation" Gensis 21:17-21. Thus the Islamic nation was born. Our spiritual heritage can either be traced back to Joshua for the Jews - the 'chosen" ones or to Ishmael for the Muslims. <br /><br />The current Israel-Palestine conflict traces its roots back to Abraham as well. Abraham gave his land and his covenant to Isaac, the son born to his wife Keturah, who he wed after Sarah's death. Isaac, in turn passed the land and convenant on to his son Jacob. Here's a link that fully explains the issue:<br />http://ldolphin.org/twelvekeys.html<br /><br />The "Call me Ishmael" of Moby Dick has his origins in this story as well. Melville was a man who knew his Bible and he takes great pains to allogorically explain both Ishmaels in Moby Dick.<br /><br />Rhett is the Ishmael of the south and while he makes strides to reconcile himself with "his people" he never fully does so.Rita from St. Lounoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156452579073833353.post-34059516514726588462010-10-27T11:40:25.115-05:002010-10-27T11:40:25.115-05:00I think he resented the hypocrisy of it all. Peop...I think he resented the hypocrisy of it all. People chose to believe everything bad about him, whether it was deserved or not. He had done nothing to the girl, (if you believe Rhett's story) and so why should he be saddled with a wife he didn't love just so his father could keep his good name. I think Rhett always had great plans for his life that didn't entail following his father's footsteps but to be cast out without any money or any friends must have been hard for such a young man. All doors were closed to him and so he ended up becoming the man that his father had always believed him to be.bellalestrangenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4156452579073833353.post-29440693333884317612010-10-27T11:35:09.860-05:002010-10-27T11:35:09.860-05:00Another very interesting entry to the 'Quotabl...Another very interesting entry to the 'Quotable' series. I thoroughly enjoyed it :)<br /><br />As for your question, I think Rhett both resented and welcomed his outcast status (a bit like Scarlett's attitude towards the Old Guard, after the war). I think he truly despised his father and thought that being banned put him way above the older Butler. But at the same time he felt wronged for doing, in his opinion, no wrong - a victim of injustice from his father and society. I think most of his bitterness regarding the issue stems from that.<br /><br />V.Vera Roldãohttp://www.facebook.com/people/Vera-Roldao/1541372897noreply@blogger.com