Book Endings We’d Like to Change

by Tee Tate

Gone with the Wind
By Margaret Mitchell

Every one of the thirty-some odd times I’ve re-read this, I hope the letters will rearrange themselves into something different. Bonnie will make that hurdle and Scarlett and Rhett will beam with parental pride. Melanie will live. Scarlett will realize, sometime in the first two hundred pages, that she and Ashley Wilkes are probably the most incompatible people on Earth, and that he could never make her happy. That when Scarlett runs home to tell Rhett of her epiphany, he sighs in a thank-God-you-saved-my-life-kinda way and tells her these are the words he’s been waiting for. And they live happily ever after, scandalizing the old biddies that live down the street with their constant faux pas and shameless displays of affection.

-Jennifer Orozco

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3 comments

aliceisforever 9 February, 2012 - 12:52 pm

I think that for me, it would be The Time Traveler's Wife. In case someone hasn't read it, I won't say what I would change…but I suspect most who've read it know what I would change.

evilauthor 9 February, 2012 - 2:45 pm

I would change that one too, aliceisforever.
And I totally agree with "IT". I was GLUED to that book (except that night a friend decided to raise a balloon right outside my bedroom window) and when I came to the end, I was poised for something equally dramatic and spellbinding and I got — a spider???? Pah-lu-heeze.

Jenny_O 10 February, 2012 - 11:08 am

On Friday Night Knitting Club–It was a total letdown when the protagonist kicked the bucket. Didn't even bother to read the others in the series.

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