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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: down on him from the heights of womanly superiority, smiling as
women have always smiled at the antics of men who are boys at
heart.
This annoyed her a little, whenever she thought of it. It would be
pleasant to feel superior to Rhett. All the other men she had
known she could dismiss with a half-contemptuous "What a child!"
Her father, the Tarleton twins with their love of teasing and their
elaborate practical jokes, the hairy little Fontaines with their
childish rages, Charles, Frank, all the men who had paid court to
her during the war--everyone, in fact, except Ashley. Only Ashley
and Rhett eluded her understanding and her control for they were
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