Scarlett O’Hara has just arrived safely at Tara with the bedridden Melanie, after surviving a terrifying flight from an Atlanta in flames.
Penniless, desperate and half out of her mind with hunger, she runs into the fields, looking for something, anything, to eat. Using her hands to dig, she pulls up the only food she can find: a radish.
She takes a bite, gags and collapses to the ground in tears. Using the steely resolve that is essential to her character, she pulls herself to her feet, raises her fist to the sky and says, “God is my witness. As God is my witness, they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this, and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill, as God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.”
