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It's possible. Legolas Send a noteboard - 28/04/2011 08:06:59 PM
and got annoyed, too. And decided that damnit, while annoying female characters was all right by her, she wanted them to be strong too, damnit?

I don't think the similarity is strong enough to suggest there is a real link, though. I just started thinking - naturally enough, I think - of Scarlett O'Hara as there are few heroines as unabashedly selfish, then when Lizzie Eustace talks of finding her "Corsair", the association with Rhett Butler is obvious as well, and it goes from there. But I'm sure it's just a coincidence - or perhaps a conscious decision by both authors to make their heroines' selfish character even more noticeable through the contrast with the other main female character.

Though while we're on the topic, I never did understand how Gone with the Wind managed to become as popular as it has. Personally I like Scarlett plenty, and the book is undeniably a tour de force, but you'd think she'd rub far more people the wrong way.
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