smeple:
Spanking in GWTW? Is that why she was named "Scarlett?"
Well, of course "Scarlett" was the protagonist's middle name, which she generally went by, her first name being "Katie."
While on occasion Rhett Butler did refer to Scarlett being spanked or thrashed with a buggy whip, and he once talked about kicking ber bottom all the way to Melanie's house in Atlanta if necessary, he never did carry out any of those threats.
It was stated that Mrs. Tarleton, mother of the twins (Brent and Stuart) whom Scarlett was flirting with at the novel's beginning, was known for using her riding crop more on her four young-adult sons than on her prized horses.
IIRC "National Lampoon" magazine once did a brief parody of GONE WITH THE WIND, called "Scarlett O'Bottom," which featured Scarlett being spanked by one of the Tara field hands, Big Sam...
--C.K.