Scarlett is so annoying, so self involved, so selfish and unsypathetic to everyone's cause but her own that you can't help but love her for it all. Rhett's the kind of guy that I know I would find wildly attractive at first meeting...but at the same time, faintly sleazy. Ashley is a pathetic wimp and clearly unsuited for Scarlett. It's a very good soap opera in a very large novel.