Ungrateful Atlanta

So I am reading GWTW for the first time and while I don’t really like Scarlett, I really don’t like that everyone is blaming her for Frank’s death and her almost getting raped. I also don’t like the reaction to Rhett butler afterwards.

Scarlett helped Melanie survive, Scarlett helped everyone, even Mammy, get fed, she saved Tara, and she’s making money to continue supporting everyone. She’s doing it in unscrupulous ways, but she’s surviving.

And they’re all blaming her for her own attack. Saying she killed Frank and almost killed Ashley and brought the Yankees down on their heads. It never occurs to anybody that Frank and Ashley brought the Yankees down by being in the KKK, that Scarlett had to go driving out because she couldn’t trust Frank because he’s useless at managing workers and collecting money, that they should be grateful to her for keeping food in them and a roof over them and Melanie alive. They are so ungrateful to Rhett Butler about saying their husbands and brothers were in a whorehouse, despite that saving those men from death. Then when Mammy is bitching at Scarlett about marrying Rhett, she complains how Scarlett stole Frank from Suellen-despite helping her do it!!

I really don’t see how it’s better to be ungrateful to a person than in their debt. Atlanta society is messed up.