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As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
— Gone with the Wind ‧ 1939
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
This is the moment Scarlett stops being a belle and becomes a survivor, and the audience cheers her for it even while the film starts to show what that hardness will cost. The line is half a battle cry and half a threat to the world. Fans use it, usually jokingly, for anyone who has decided never to be poor, cold or hungry again.
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In context
Spoilers for Gone with the WindShow the scene
The film's famous vow comes at the close of its first half. Scarlett O'Hara has fled burning Atlanta and reached her family's plantation, Tara, to find it pillaged by Union troops and the fields untended, her mother dead of typhoid and her father out of his mind. Standing in the ruined land, she swears that she will survive and that her family will not go hungry again, whatever she has to do. The scene leads straight into the intermission and her years of struggle after the war.
Sources (2)
- Gone with the Wind (film), WikipediaPlot, second paragraphReference checked
- Gone with the Wind (film), WikiquoteScarlett O'Hara sectionReference checked
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