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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: deference, with far more courtesy than he treated any of the ladies
of Scarlett's recent acquaintance. In fact, with more courtesy
than he treated Scarlett herself. He always asked Mammy's
permission to take Wade riding and consulted with her before he
bought Ella dolls. And Mammy was hardly polite to him.
Scarlett felt that Rhett should be firm with Mammy, as became the
head of the house, but Rhett only laughed and said that Mammy was
the real head of the house.
He infuriated Scarlett by saying coolly that he was preparing to be
very sorry for her some years hence, when the Republican rule was
gone from Georgia and the Democrats back in power.
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