Belle Watling Timeline & Summary

•  Back
• More 

• Belle is a prostitute in Atlanta.
• She gets Melanie to take her money to give to the troops.
• After the war, Rhett pays for Belle to set up a house of prostitution with herself as the madam.
• Rhett uses his connection with Belle to shelter members of the KKK from Union soldiers.
• Rhett has a long-standing sexual relationship with Belle, which continues after Rhett marries Scarlett.
• The novel does not say what happens to Belle after Rhett leaves town at the end of the novel.