If his Macbeth, from 1948, was a primitivized, mucky, cave Shakespeare, his Othello is an essentially architectural drama
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The fledgling author was having no end of trouble describing that all-meaning kiss, but she did know that when the insistent demand of his lips on hers makes her admit that she always would be his, then hed leave. (To which she appended, I do see vast possibilities for hot stuff in that passage!) When Macmillans reader suggested that Mitchell reduce the sense of finality in Rhetts departure, she replied, Ill change it any way you want, except to make a happy ending. Her intention, she firmly stated, was to leave the ending open to the reader. And so it has come to pass that Americans for more than half a century have divided into those who fully expect Rhett Butler to return to Scarlett OHara and those who know that he never will
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