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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: "Who is 'him'?"
His faded blue eyes looked at her from under sandy lashes without
surprise. Nothing seemed to surprise or excite him. Perhaps he
had seen too much of the unexpected ever to be startled again.
That Scarlett did not know what was in her sister's heart did not
seem odd to him. He took it as naturally as he did the fact that
Carreen had found comfort in talking to him, a stranger.
"Her beau, that boy Brent something-or-other who was killed at
Gettysburg."
"Her beau?" said Scarlett shortly. "Her beau, nothing! He and his
brother were my beaux."
Gone With the Wind | 
