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Gone with the Wind,an American novel by Margaret Mitchell,was published in 1936 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937.The novel is one of the most popular of all time,and an American film adaptation of the same name released in 1939 became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood and received a record-breaking number of Academy Awards.
Mitchell's work relates the story of a rebellious Georgia woman named Scarlett O'Hara and her travails with friends,family and lovers in the midst of the antebellum South,the American Civil War,and the Reconstruction period.It also tells the story of the love that blossoms between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.
The title is taken from the first line of the third stanza of the poem Non sum qual铆s eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson:"I have forgot much,Cynara!gone with the wind." Alternatively,the line also appears in the novel.When Scarlett escapes Atlanta's bombing by the forces of the north,she flees back to her family's plantation,Tara.At one point,she wonders "Was Tara still standing?Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia?"
Critics and historians regard the book as having a strong ideological commitment to the cause of the Confederacy and a romanticized view of the culture of the antebellum South.This is apparent from the book's opening pages,which describe how Scarlett's beaux,the Tarleton twins,have been expelled from university and are accompanied home by their elder brothers out of a sense of honor:a metaphor for the South's viewpoint on the statehood of Kansas.
Nevertheless,the book includes a vivid description of the fall of Atlanta in 1864 and the devastation of war (some of it absent from the 1939 film),and shows a considerable amount of historical research.Mitchell's sweeping narrative of war and loss helped the book win the Pulitzer Prize on May 3,1937.
An episode in the book suggests the early Ku Klux Klan,though without giving the name:in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War,Scarlett is assualted by recently-emancipated Blacks,whereupon her male friends make a retaliatory night-time raid on the Blacks' encampment.This raid is presented sympathetically as being necessary and justified,while the law-enforcement officers trying to catch the perpetrators are depicted as opressive Northern occupiers.Although the Klan is not mentioned in that scene,Scarlett later learns that Ashley Wilkes and others who were involved in the raid are members of the Klan.Many such local anti-Black vigilante groups did eventually join the Klan in the late 1860's,as Mitchell must have been aware from her historical reasearch.
Alexandra Ripley wrote the novel Scarlett,in 1991,as the authorized sequel to Mitchell's novel.
In 2000,the copyright holders attempted to suppress publication of Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone,a book that retold the story from the point of view of the slaves.A federal appeals court denied the plaintiffs an injunction against publication in Suntrust v.Houghton Mifflin (2001),on the basis that the book was parody protected by the First Amendment.The parties subsequently settled out of court to allow the book to be published.
Structure
Part One
Chapters I to VII
From Tara to Ashley's birthday barbecue where his engagement to Melanie is announced and Fort Sumter spurs the beginnings of the American Civil War.
Part Two
Chapters VIII to XVI
From Tara to Scarlett's early years of the war in Atlanta with Aunt Pitty and Melanie.
Part Three
Chapters XVII to XXX
Scarlett's escape just before September 1864's Surrender of Atlanta back to Tara and the hardships there.
Part Four
Chapters XXXI to XLVII
Post-bellum,carpetbagger taxes force Scarlett to return to Atlanta where she ends up married to Frank.
Part Five
Chapters XLVIII to LXIII
Her marriage to Rhett Butler and realization that she never could love Ashley.
Historical Sources for the Characters
While Margaret Mitchell used to say that her Gone with the Wind characters were not based on real people,modern researchers have found similarities to some of the people in Mitchell's own life as well as to individuals she knew or she heard of.Rhett Butler is thought to be based on Mitchell's first husband,Red Upshaw,who she married in 1922,but divorced after it was revealed that he was a bootlegger.
Another at least p脿rtial character source for Scarlett O'Hara might have been Martha Bulloch Roosevelt,the mother of US president Theodore Roosevelt.Roosevelt biographer,David McCullough,discovered that Mitchell conducted an interview with one of Martha's closest friends and bridesmaid,Evelyn King Williams,at age 87,while a reporter for The Atlanta Journal.In that interview,Martha's physical appearance,beauty,grace and intelligence were described in great detail.The similarities between Martha,who was also called Mittie,and Scarlett are striking.
Mitchell's work relates the story of a rebellious Georgia woman named Scarlett O'Hara and her travails with friends,family and lovers in the midst of the antebellum South,the American Civil War,and the Reconstruction period.It also tells the story of the love that blossoms between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.
The title is taken from the first line of the third stanza of the poem Non sum qual铆s eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson:"I have forgot much,Cynara!gone with the wind." Alternatively,the line also appears in the novel.When Scarlett escapes Atlanta's bombing by the forces of the north,she flees back to her family's plantation,Tara.At one point,she wonders "Was Tara still standing?Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia?"
Critics and historians regard the book as having a strong ideological commitment to the cause of the Confederacy and a romanticized view of the culture of the antebellum South.This is apparent from the book's opening pages,which describe how Scarlett's beaux,the Tarleton twins,have been expelled from university and are accompanied home by their elder brothers out of a sense of honor:a metaphor for the South's viewpoint on the statehood of Kansas.
Nevertheless,the book includes a vivid description of the fall of Atlanta in 1864 and the devastation of war (some of it absent from the 1939 film),and shows a considerable amount of historical research.Mitchell's sweeping narrative of war and loss helped the book win the Pulitzer Prize on May 3,1937.
An episode in the book suggests the early Ku Klux Klan,though without giving the name:in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War,Scarlett is assualted by recently-emancipated Blacks,whereupon her male friends make a retaliatory night-time raid on the Blacks' encampment.This raid is presented sympathetically as being necessary and justified,while the law-enforcement officers trying to catch the perpetrators are depicted as opressive Northern occupiers.Although the Klan is not mentioned in that scene,Scarlett later learns that Ashley Wilkes and others who were involved in the raid are members of the Klan.Many such local anti-Black vigilante groups did eventually join the Klan in the late 1860's,as Mitchell must have been aware from her historical reasearch.
Alexandra Ripley wrote the novel Scarlett,in 1991,as the authorized sequel to Mitchell's novel.
In 2000,the copyright holders attempted to suppress publication of Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone,a book that retold the story from the point of view of the slaves.A federal appeals court denied the plaintiffs an injunction against publication in Suntrust v.Houghton Mifflin (2001),on the basis that the book was parody protected by the First Amendment.The parties subsequently settled out of court to allow the book to be published.
Structure
Part One
Chapters I to VII
From Tara to Ashley's birthday barbecue where his engagement to Melanie is announced and Fort Sumter spurs the beginnings of the American Civil War.
Part Two
Chapters VIII to XVI
From Tara to Scarlett's early years of the war in Atlanta with Aunt Pitty and Melanie.
Part Three
Chapters XVII to XXX
Scarlett's escape just before September 1864's Surrender of Atlanta back to Tara and the hardships there.
Part Four
Chapters XXXI to XLVII
Post-bellum,carpetbagger taxes force Scarlett to return to Atlanta where she ends up married to Frank.
Part Five
Chapters XLVIII to LXIII
Her marriage to Rhett Butler and realization that she never could love Ashley.
Historical Sources for the Characters
While Margaret Mitchell used to say that her Gone with the Wind characters were not based on real people,modern researchers have found similarities to some of the people in Mitchell's own life as well as to individuals she knew or she heard of.Rhett Butler is thought to be based on Mitchell's first husband,Red Upshaw,who she married in 1922,but divorced after it was revealed that he was a bootlegger.
Another at least p脿rtial character source for Scarlett O'Hara might have been Martha Bulloch Roosevelt,the mother of US president Theodore Roosevelt.Roosevelt biographer,David McCullough,discovered that Mitchell conducted an interview with one of Martha's closest friends and bridesmaid,Evelyn King Williams,at age 87,while a reporter for The Atlanta Journal.In that interview,Martha's physical appearance,beauty,grace and intelligence were described in great detail.The similarities between Martha,who was also called Mittie,and Scarlett are striking.
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