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Frank Kennedy is one of the County bachelors, though he’s older than most. When the story begins, he is Suellen’s beau. After a long courtship, he finally proposes to Suellen during the war. Before marrying her, he starts a store in Atlanta that sells surplus army goods that have become useless to the Confederate army after the war ends. When Scarlett hears of his small fortune, she lies to him that Suellen has married someone else. Frank is deceived by Scarlett’s charms and marries her. Even though they have one child together, Ella Lorena, Scarlett makes Frank unhappy. She takes over his store and operates it better than he did, making him feel emasculated and embarrassed. In Scarlett’s opinion, Frank is timid, cowardly, and so generous that he’d rather starve than take money from his neighbors (whom he allowed to buy things on credit). However, she doesn’t know that he is an avid member of the Ku Klux Klan. After Scarlett gets attacked, Frank sets out with the Klan to avenge her. He is shot and killed.
Frank Kennedy Quotes in Gone with the Wind
The Gone with the Wind quotes below are all either spoken by Frank Kennedy or refer to Frank Kennedy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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It was a man’s world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took the credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness.
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Chapter 36
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A woman could handle business matters as well as or better than a man, a revolutionary thought to Scarlett. […] She had been brought up to believe that a woman alone could accomplish nothing, yet she had managed [Tara] without men to help her until Will came. Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men’s help!
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Frank Kennedy Quotes in Gone with the Wind
The Gone with the Wind quotes below are all either spoken by Frank Kennedy or refer to Frank Kennedy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 3
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It was a man’s world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took the credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness.
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Chapter 36
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A woman could handle business matters as well as or better than a man, a revolutionary thought to Scarlett. […] She had been brought up to believe that a woman alone could accomplish nothing, yet she had managed [Tara] without men to help her until Will came. Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men’s help!
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