I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

This line is spoken by Scarlett O’Hara near the end of Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War–era novel *Gone with the Wind* (1936). After Rhett Butler finally leaves her—exhausted by years of conflict, loss, and Scarlett’s fixation on Ashley Wilkes—Scarlett is briefly devastated, then pivots into her characteristic survival mode. The moment comes after the war has upended the old Southern order and after Scarlett has repeatedly relied on sheer will, calculation, and endurance to protect Tara and rebuild her life. The closing sentiment encapsulates the novel’s final emotional beat: Scarlett’s refusal to accept defeat, even in love.

The quote captures Scarlett’s defining trait: an almost ruthless resilience that converts grief into strategy. “I’ll think of some way” frames love as a problem to be solved, consistent with her pragmatic, self-preserving approach throughout the novel. The famous second sentence—“After all, tomorrow is another day”—shifts the focus from immediate despair to deferred hope, suggesting that time itself is an ally and that survival depends on postponing unbearable feelings until one can act. As the novel’s closing note, it is both inspiring and morally ambiguous: Scarlett’s optimism is inseparable from denial, and her determination may repeat the same patterns that cost her Rhett.