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Gone With the Wind
Atlantan Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Georgia, Gone With the Wind, occupies an important place in any history of twentieth-century American literature.Dismied by most academic literary critics for being uneven, flawed, and conventionally written in an age marked by literary experimentation, and attacked by some cultural commentators as promulgating racist myths and undermining the very foundations of its basically feminist paradigm, the best-selling novel of the twentieth century continues to withstand its detractors.Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war , Atlanta burning , the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara , the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war.Scarlett is beautiful.But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long , is going to marry his placid cousin.Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks.There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins.Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.With its richly detailed evocation of a former age, its narrative engagement, its compelling portrait of the archetypal human instinct for survival, and its reflection of the contrarine of romantic dreams, Gone With the Wind continues to capture entertain, excite, and sometimes exasperate readers.As well as being a gripping novel of epic proportions, it is valuable as a historical document—though one that must be carefully read.A vivid record of a segment of life in the nineteenth-century South, the novel is also the record of a twentieth-century sensibility's engagement with the region's past.
