Gone With The Wind
(Margaret Mitchell)
Gone with the Wind can surely be hailed as one of the greatest American epics. Sweeping across the entire Civil War era, this novel manages not only to capture this landmark period of American history in all of its glory and tragedy, but also breathes life into some of the greatest literary characters that have ever been created. The story is centered around Scarlett O?Hara, the headstrong, selfish Southern belle that has captured the hearts of all the eligible men in her entire county with her thick black lashes, sparkling green eyes, eighteen inch waist and outrageous flattery that rolls off her tongue like honey. Thoroughly sheltered in her big white house and her every whim catered for by her bossy mammy, the only thing lacking in Scarlett?s life is the unattainable Ashley Wilkes, her heart?s desire. After Ashley marries, Scarlett also enters into a loveless wedlock just as the Civil War is sparked off, burning away the bliss of the life that she once knew. Scarlett?s sheer determination and force of will is the only thing that keeps her from falling into the abyss of destruction. With her mother dead and his father losing his sanity, Scarlett takes on the duties of the entire household after the war ravages the entire land, farming cotton to scrape together what little she can to feed the household. Finally, facing eviction, Scarlett desperately turns to the only person still left with any fortune ? the dashing, swarthy, blockader Rhett Butler, a self-proclaimed scoundrel who had lost his heart to Scarlett when he realized their kindred spirits. They end up marrying, and for a brief period, Scarlett is happy gilding her new life with as many gaudy possessions and show of material wealth as she can, trying to erase the hunger and poverty that the war had brought. However, not even having a child could fill the hole left in her heart by Ashley Wilkes, and Scarlett makes the lives of all those around her miserable as a result of this unfulfilled childhood dream that she never grew out of. After a series of tragedies, Rhett Finally gives up hope, his heart sapped of every once of love that he once felt. Weary and bitter, he takes his leave, responding with a famous "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" to Scarlett's frenzied attempts at trying to make him stay, for she realized too late that he was the man that she truly loved. Filled with action, romance, heartbreak and tragedy, this masterpiece shines as one of the greatest historical fictions ever written.
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