Book Review: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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Book Review of Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. “Dive into the timeless epic of love and survival in ‘Gone with the Wind’ by Margaret Mitchell. A masterpiece of American literature.”
The only novel ever published by American female writer Margaret Mitchell is “Gone with the Wind”.
Since the novel came out in 1936, it has been selling well, not only in the United States but also in the whole world by readers. It is now recognized as a classic romance novel with the background of the American Civil War.
The novel uses Atlanta and a nearby plantation as the story scene, depicting the life of American Southerners before and after the Civil War. The work portrays the images of many Southerners of that era, and the central characters Scarlett, Reid, Ashley, Melanie, and others are typical representatives.
Their customs, manners, words and deeds, spiritual concepts, political attitudes, and even their clothing, etc., are all described in great detail in the novel. It can be said that the novel successfully reproduced the social life in this area of the southern United States at that time.
Book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. Wikipedia
- Originally published: June 30, 1936
- Author: Margaret Mitchell
- Followed by: Rhett Butler’s People
- Genres: Novel, Historical Fiction, War story
- Pages: 1037 (first edition); 1024 (Warner Books paperback)
The most attractive part of the novel is Scarlett’s personality and her love story. Her love is not full of poetic and romantic sentiment, but realistic and utilitarian. In order to achieve her goal, she even used deceptive tricks. So why is her love story so fascinating?
The reason is simple, this is true. It is a real situation that is completely possible under the scenario set in the novel. The real thing may not be sublime, but it is closer to people’s lives and therefore more popular with readers. Scarlett first fell in love with Ashley, but he heard the news of Ashley’s engagement in his population.
Confident and smart Scarlett decided to confess to Ashley before the wedding, but Ashley gently and tactfully refused. When Scarlett was most depressed, she discovered that her conversation with Ashley was overheard by a man Rhett.
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About the Author: Margaret Mitchell
Mitchell (Margaret Mitchell, 1900–1949) American female writer. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, in the southern United States. His father was a lawyer and was the president of the Atlanta Historical Society.
Mitchell studied at Washington Theological Seminary and Smith College in Massachusetts. After that, she worked as a reporter for the local newspaper “Atlanta”. He married John March in 1925, resigned after marriage, and devoted himself to writing.
Mitchell only published the masterpiece “Gone with the Wind” in his life. She began to work hard to create “Gone with the Wind” in 1926. Ten years later, the work came out and it caused a strong response as soon as it was published.
Because of his family’s influence, Mitchell has a keen interest in American history, especially the history of the American South during the Civil War. She heard a lot of anecdotes and rumors about the Civil War and the post-war reconstruction period in her hometown and contacted and read a lot of books about the Civil War.
She grew up in the southern city of Atlanta since she was a child, and she was fascinated by the customs of the southern United States. The natural environment and social environment here have become the background and source of creation for Mitchell Vance’s gallop.
Excerpts from the original text: Gone with the Wind
What I love is a fictional person of my own, a person who is lifeless like Mei Li. I made a beautiful dress and fell in love with it. When Asiri came over on horseback, he was so handsome and so different, so I just put on the clothes for him, whether it fits him or not. So I couldn’t see his real appearance. In fact, what I have always loved is that suit, not him at all. — — Quoting from page 834
Short comment: Gone with the Wind
The first time I solemnly felt that the United States is a great country was when I finished reading this book. The victorious North, unexpectedly allowed such a novel with a purely Southern stance to become the number one masterpiece of the Civil War.
In the novel, the Northern Army burns, kills, humiliates, and plunders, the blacks are ungrateful, loitering after losing the white discipline, and molesting the white women, and the KKK rises up to resist and fight for their lives. At the age of 21, what was the experience of being subverted in history?
If you want me to recommend a romance novel, it is definitely this, the top romance novel, the author is quite capable of description, and the girl’s heart flickers. It is said that Scarlett’s masterpiece made Rhode no longer love her at last.
I want to say that the two of them are destined enemies. They are similar but not complementary. Why did Rhett say that he did not consume his love for her? He is afraid When she knows her true heart, she will be controlled and played, so she would rather ridicule and tell Scarlett that he loves her.
This is the most unmanly thing about Perfect Reid. As a classic masterpiece, I think it’s still a little bit worse. In the war and politics part, the author’s personal emotions are too much, and it suddenly feels very weak.
Summary: Gone with the Wind
I used to think that the goddess was emotionally willful and foolish, so she would look at the moon in the water and not hesitate to take advantage of her. I have recently changed my original mind. In this broken marriage, doesn’t the male god have to bear some responsibility?
When Rhett married Scarlett, as he said, he knew that she had someone else in her heart, and he thought that he would make his wife fall in love with him after marriage. But how did he do it? There is only one purpose in everything he does, which is not to let his wife know that he loves her.
Scarlett asked solemnly many times, do you love me? Do you care about me? Rhett never answered directly, only responded in a teasing way, wondering how uncertain Scarlett must be in this marriage.
Scarlett sometimes thinks about Ashley. First love is very unforgettable, especially when it is right in front of her. It is even harder not to think about it. Rhett clearly knew about the “adultery” between these two people before the marriage.
Not only did he refuse to confess his love after the marriage, but he was actually jealous to the point of cold-blooded violence against his wife. Scarlett had a private meeting with Ashley in the factory and only hugged each other.
Rhett was so angry that he expanded his affair with his old sweetheart to the whole city. Scarlett’s cheating was only mental, but Rhett’s cheating was a real one.
Scarlett had always cared about the red-haired Bell, and she was quite critical of her words. Rhett could not smell the jealousy for a minute, and would deliberately use Bell to stimulate Scarlett in his response. A prostitute is better than you.
Scarlett had never completely objected to his relationship with her lover from beginning to end. This did not mean that she did not take Rhett into consideration. For someone who had never loved her, she had no position to threaten him.
Later she had another child, which was really an aggrieved situation. Rhett said coldly, who is the father of the child? Scarlett completely exploded and fell down the stairs and lost her child. Then he confided to Melanie his deep and unparalleled love for her, but Scarlett longed for his company in a coma.
Rhett mocked Scarlett for having a child’s heart and being willful and ignorant, so she would hurt the people around her who loved her most. Although the words are true, every time this child asks about love, who makes her unable to be sure about love at all?
Knowing that she is a child, but not understanding that what she does is far more true than what she says, how can she treat the relationship between two people in a more childish way than she does?
In the end, the male god said that he wanted to leave Scarlett because of disappointment or impatience. From then on, Scarlett probably became the most aggrieved heroine in history — Hua Tsai, for the first time since she got married, she said she loved me, but she actually wanted to break up with me.
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The preceding words: There is nothing new in the world. If you don’t look at “Gone with the Wind” as a romantic novel, I want to regard it as a reflection of culture.
It tells the story of what to do with the culture that accompanies it when a system collapses. Our feelings for culture are perhaps the most complicated of many things in the history of human development.
While human culture accumulates huge energy, it also accumulates huge loads. Walking on a rough road, do we abandon it or draw strength from it? For us, is it destruction or salvation? There is never an answer to this question, we just make a choice.
About “Gone with the Wind”: The fastest and clearest way to figure out the context of a story is through its main characters.
