How does gerald ohara die

His determination and gumption is passed down to Scarlett. Just as Gerald is an upstart outsider who never picked up the social graces, so Scarlett "had the easily stirred passions of her Irish father and nothing except the thinnest veneer of her mother's unselfish and forbearing nature" 3.

Daddy's girl for life, this one. In fact, Scarlett basically reproduces Gerald's success. He had nothing, and he becomes wealthy through courage, impudence, and determination.

Scarlett loses everything after the war, and then becomes wealthy through courage, impudence, and determination. Like dad, like daughter. How good the old lady was to offer no sympathy that would make her cry. He acts dazed and sometimes he can't seem to remember that Mother is dead. Oh, Old Miss, it's more than I can stand to see him sit by the hour, waiting for her and so patiently too, and he used to have no more patience than a child.

But it's worse when he does remember that she's gone. Every now and then, after he's sat still with his ear cocked listening for her, he jumps up suddenly and stumps out of the house and down to the burying ground. And then he comes dragging back with the tears all over his face and he says over and over till I could scream: 'Katie Scarlett, Mrs.

The fictional Tara is near the Flint River with oak trees on the property. In the early days, Gerald lived in the four-room overseer's house because only the blackened foundation stones of the original house existed.

Later, Gerald used slave labor to build the main house. It is described as "a clumsy sprawling building that crowned the rise of ground overlooking the green incline of pasture land running down the river.

Suellen was made aware by Mrs. MacIntosh of the money being given out to 'Union sympathizers', and attempted to manipulate her mentally ill father into signing the Iron Clad oath, which would have given them several thousand dollars in compensation for the damage done to Tara. During the process of signing, Gerald became lucid enough to understand what she was having him do, and, enraged, stole Alex Fontaine's horse to ride back to Tara.

While attempting to jump a fence Gerald was thrown, breaking his neck and killing him instantly. The blame for Gerald's death was then placed firmly on Suellen's shoulders. Gone With the Wind Wiki Explore. Wiki Content.

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