dare go off philandering with any other girl, because I'm mighty jealous" (GWTW 80). Scarlett's trademark is making every man feel that she, a beautiful Southern belle, wants him, the gentleman of her dreams. Particularly at the barbeque at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett uses this ploy to manipulate practically every in attendance into eating with her instead of with his respective date. Even Scarlett's sister, Suellen, receives no more respect from her sister than the average girl at the party when Scarlett usurps Suellen's beau, Frank Kennedy. "Why, Frank Kennedy! If I haven't just been looking everywhere for you! [...] Let's get away from this crowded old table and go off by ourselves"(GWTW 80). In fact, Scarlett eventually marries Frank Kennedy despite her sister's love for him. Why, when these men can see perfectly well that Scarlett has performed this trick on every other man present, does each man believe that it is to his advantage to leave the girl he came with for this specific belle? Presumably it is because although other girls may have the substance and devotion useful to men later in life, they cannot produce the weak in the knees feeling inspired by Scarlett's allure.
             It is painfully overstated that Scarlett wants to use men to get what she wants. The relevant part of this reflected desire, however is not the reason for it, but instead its result. The characteristics reflected by Scarlett's mirror are the chivalry and desire in each man she encounters. For instance, "Brent: I'll get her desert. Stuart: She said me. Charles: Allow me Miss O'Hara"(GWTW 83), is heard as a throng of young men surround Scarlett towards the end of the barbeque. Each of these men wants desperately to be picked because to be chosen by Scarlett is to be desired by a beautiful and awe inspiring woman. Their chivalry is aimed at making them the most desirable ...