Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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Scarlett O'hara Is A Fiery, Desirable 16-year-old
Scarlett O'Hara is a fiery, desirable 16-year-old who has an 18-inch-waist. She is the belle of Clayton County and is chased after by Brent and Stuart Tarleton. To get her to promise them all the dances at the next barbecue, the brothers tell her a secret. And it's not one that she'll like. Ashley Wilkes, the man that she wants to be with, has just gotten engaged to Melanie Wilkes, his first cousin once removed. In an attempt to get him to elope with her, she tells him how he feels. Of course, she is told that he cares about her, but that he made a promise to marry Melanie and he is sticking to it. In anger, she throws a vase and meets Rhett Butler, a man who is considered to be immoral by many. From then on, she is followed through all three of her marriages in a classic tale that is often quoted today.
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Margaret Mitchell, Gone With The Wind Is A Classic
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind is a classic, epic tale of love and war with which everyone is surely familiar because of the film remake starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. The book is set in Georgia during the Civil War and opens with a young Scarlett O'Hara at a ball, pining for the fey and useless Ashley who is promised to the dainty and quiet Melanie. The book tracks Scarlett's marriages (three), her secret love for Ashley, and her travails throughout the war and Reconstruction as she struggles to rebuild her family's destroyed plantation and to keep her family safe and well.
Ultimately it is a story of survival but it is also the story of the great smouldering love affair between Scarlett and Rhett Butler.
To actually outline the main plot would take forever, but once you get into the book (give it a hundred pages...) you will be gripped! It's a classic novel and everyone should have a go.
Did we read the same book? In what way did it glorify a bunch of stupid white men trying to make themselves feel important by going off to lynch a black man who dared speak to a white woman?
This is actually pretty accurate historical account of the attitudes in the ex-Confederate States to race and Reconstruction during the time period in which it was set. If you viewed the death, violence and tension as being glorified then I'd hate to see your description of gritty and realistic.
I grew up in Atlanta, and the legacy of Sherman's march and of the Civil War still hangs over the city even today, nearly 150 years later. Gone With the Wind is as accurate a record as to why as you will find in literature today without having to go back and read a textbook.
absolutely great book to spend a week reading, you miss it when you've finished. One word of caution though, it does glorify the Ku Klux Klan a bit, so take with a pinch of salt and it's just a wonderful story. Some parts are quite different from the film so it's still worth reading if you've seen the film.
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