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Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day.
— Gone with the Wind · 1939
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Scarlett's whole character is in this one breath: ruin, then a plan. She has lost her husband, her child and her best friend, and still reaches for the only thing that has never failed her, the red earth of Tara. Fans quote 'tomorrow is another day' as a shrug against any bad night, usually without knowing it closes a story about the cost of that stubbornness.
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The last scene of Gone with the Wind (1939). Rhett Butler has just walked out of the house into the morning fog, and Scarlett O'Hara is left alone, distraught. She resolves to return home to the family plantation, Tara, and to win Rhett back. In Margaret Mitchell's novel the same ending has her consoling herself with the knowledge that she still has Tara and that she will think of a way to recover Rhett, because tomorrow is another day.
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- Gone with the Wind (film), WikipediaPlot, final paragraphReference checked
- Gone with the Wind (novel), WikipediaPlot, final paragraphReference checked
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