Honey Wilkes is India and Ashley's sister, and the youngest child of John Wilkes. She only appears in the novel. Charles Hamilton was her beau, before he married Scarlett O'Hara, who was in love with her older brother Ashley. This is why she despises Scarlett.
Biography[]
Honey was nicknamed "Honey" by her father, because that's what she calls everyone. She is jealous of Scarlett and hates her for marrying Charles, when she was unofficially engaged to him.
During the war, India and Honey flee to relatives in Macon, where Honey meets and marries a wealthy, older man in 1867. India disapproves of Honey's husband and returns to Ashley in Atlanta.
Overview[]
She is called Honey because that's what she calls everyone else. She notably says "I think Scarlett acted as fast as a girl could act today" during the mid-day nap at Twelve Oaks.
Physical Description[]
Honey is described as:
Honey's nervously obvious desire to be attractive to every man in sight contrasted harshly with her father's poise...The thick deep-gold lashes that set off the gray of John Wilkes and Ashley were sparse and colorless in the faces of Honey and her sister India.
Trivia[]
- In the film, Honey is absent and it's her sister India who's betrothed to Charles Hamilton before he marries Scarlett O'Hara.
- Technically, her entire name is unknown. "Honey" is a nickname because that's what she calls everybody, so we don't know her Christian name and since her husband is unknown, we don't know what her last name is.
- She is similar to her aunt Pittypat Hamilton in the sense that both of them are thought of as childish and silly, and both of them are known by nicknames their father made up.