Gone With the Wind
Written by: Margaret MitchellFirst Published By: Macmillan Publishing Company in 1936
Gengre: Historical
Has approximately 1000 pages.
Review by: The Veracious
Short Story and Character Description
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Gone With the wind is about Scarlet O'Hara who is a rich plantation owner's
oldest daughter and pride. When we first meet her, she is only 16 years old,
spoiled, willful, and selfish. She is the most attractive girl in the county,
and she knows it very well.
The American Civil War (1861-65) comes as a very cold shower for her, as it completely changes the world she was brought up to master. Instead of marrying a rich son of a neightbouring plantation owner and keep living like she always has, she ends up the widow of the brother of the woman her beloved marries. Now, instead of plantation life, she has to adapt to city life in Atlanta during the war. With some small encouragement from the then slightly aquainted Rhett Butler, she defies the traditions of Atlanta's society and starts behaving like an unmarried young girl again, instead of leading the dull life of a war-widow. This is the beginning of her path to getting almost completely shunned in Atlanta. After the war is over and her second husband dead, leaving Scarlet fairly rich from his businesses, she marries Rhett Butler. Ridiculously rich again, she lets build a huge monster of a house for them in Atlanta. There she holds parties for the rich northerners and Rhett lets her indulge herself with whatever she wants. They have a daughter, Bonnie, who is the most precious love of both Scarlet and Rhett. When Bonnie dies, their already stormy marriage takes a deep dive into guilt-throwing and anger. All these years Scarlet thinks she is in love with Ashley, who she has known from early childhood and who is the husband of her first husband's sister, Melanie. Melanie is the only one who has always stood by Scarlet's side against the rest of the Atlantan society and who has never turned her away, which Scarlet (thinks she) loathes her for. But when Melanie dies in childbirth (and Ashley is "free") Scarlet realises that she never really did love Ashley and that she truly loved Melanie as a sister. Now she also realises that she has always loved Rhett and runs home to tell him. But this same night, Rhett's enduring, never-ending love took its last hurt and died. And he leaves her. |
My Opinions
| The book is not at all the love-story the movie makes it out to be, it is a lot more. It is an epic on the old south and the American civil war. It has fabulous characters that are expertly written and developed. The story contains lots and lots of information and historical facts without ever being boring or tedious (something I can't say for most books I read these days). The love story gives the book an extra little twist, but this is not merely a book for women; everyone can get interesting, joyful, and painful experiences reading this book. It is a true classic. |
About The Author
| Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900 in Atlanta, Georgia. Due to accidents, she was forced to quit her job as a journalist in 1926. Her husband got her a type writer and encuraged her to write. She took ten years to write "Gone With the Wind" and she never wrote anything else. She died in a car accident in 1949. Not much is known about this author, unfortunately. Go to this page: Margaret Mitchell to read more from the bibliography on her. |
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