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Set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner. Additionally, there are not many ads like on other apps. The YouTube app is famous for its diverse, super-large database of all kinds of video content.
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How To. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Privacy Policy Disclaimer. Password recovery. There are countless moments of terror, upheaval, hunger, and dislocation. And there are distortions. Tomorrow is another day. What does that mean if you are an enslaved person, working on a cotton plantation like Tara, part of the gang-system, meaning you are up at dawn and work till dusk, and you have a quota that keeps rising, and you do this every day until you are too old to stoop?
Tomorrow is another day, indeed. Blacks speak in eye dialect, which is not only racist but frustratingly difficult to comprehend. Nevertheless, Mitchell demonstrates interesting glints of comprehension. It was an institution worth defending. Certain characters, such as Mammy, Pork, and Uncle Peter, are even given their dignity.
They exist only to serve, but at least they are nominally treated as human. The rest are referred to as trash, as loafers, as predators. There is always a question in fiction between the content and the message. Thomas Harris, for example, is not condoning cannibalism, just because he created Hannibal Lecter. To the contrary, I think she endorses most of the questionable messages that Gone with the Wind propounds. Specifically, things take a dark turn around the page mark. This is the start of the Reconstruction sections, which last till the final page.
These passages are written as objective fact. In reality, they are a funhouse mirror distortion of the tragic Reconstruction Era. Decent southern whites are rightly horrified by such things as: blacks getting to vote; blacks serving in the legislature; and horror of all horrors, miscegenation. The Ku Klux Klan is the heroic party, here. It was like reading Soviet or North Korean propaganda, where you witness a worldview tethered to nothing save a sick ideology.
One of the defining features of Ms. This was published in It would be 19 years before the teenager was beaten, shot, mutilated, and thrown into the Tallahatchie for the crime of speaking to a white woman. The jury deliberated just over an hour in acquitting the killers. However, reading it today, the ghost of Emmett Till hovers over this rancid perversion of the historical record.
A system built upon the specific premise that blacks were subhuman. After fighting black equality for a decade, Reconstruction ended, and the South unleashed years of viciously unreconstructed apartheid. As Brutus might say, I have come to contextualize Gone with the Wind , not to burn it. That said, this is fiction, and it should be treated like fiction. More than that, it should be read alongside honest portrayals of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Gone with the Wind is often discussed as a contender for that illusive title: the Great American Novel. I have gone on too long already.
View all 27 comments. After 30 years, I have finally read this American Classic. Our family has stories about this book. My mom's mother read this story when it came out. My family inherited an outdoor glider from my great-grandmother who lived in Newport News Virginia and my grandmother sat on that glider couch one summer and read this book. I've heard this story most of my life.
I have a dear cousin who claimed this story her favorite book from her teens till after college and I'm not sure about now. She must have After 30 years, I have finally read this American Classic. She must have read this book between 10 and 20 times at least.
I remember thinking as a teen, how could someone, who was 5 years younger than myself read a book over a 1, pages long. It amazed me. I have many other family members who read this book and loved it. Well, now I'm among them. My dad had a hardback copy of this book on his shelves and when I told him I wanted to read it, he gave me his copy.
He has a book library in his house and he always puts his stamp on the first page that has his name and then he writes the date of when he begins and ends a story. I took up the practice myself and I love that. He started this story Dec. I started this on March 22nd, during the pandemic. It was nice to read something from his library. This is the great American novel if there ever was one. It was Titanic before the movie Titanic was a big hit.
A hug sweeping story set against the Civil war in Atlanta GA with characters to last through history. The story came out in and the movie came out in I did see the movie By it had sold over 2 million copies of the book and this was the time of the great depression when no one had much money.
This story romanticizes the South at the time of the Civil War. The historical events are correct and seem meticulously used in the story. The book shows the attitude of the South at this time; it is the perspective of Southerns at this point in time.
I grew up in the South and never understood my culture, feeling like an outsider. Several times people asked me if I was from up north when they met me because I didn't fit in. This book helps me to understand the South in a way I never have. I have to say, all the people's attitudes about the South and the way they think are still going on strong today and it really is like the South is rising again to win the country scary.
This mindset is still alive in the country today and we are as divided as back in this time. I love the characters in this story. Spending pages with them, I feel like they are walking, breathing people. I think one of my favorite characters in the history of literature is Melanie. I so love her soft strength and loyalty. She was a Trueheart. They are people that simply make the world a better place and she can only see only the good in people.
She believes in people. The end of the story got me and I cried so much. The last 50 pages are heart wrenching.
Scarlett, the famous Scarlett O'Hara is an Anti-hero. She is the villain of the story. She is shallow and doesn't really understand people while she is a master manipulator and so strong. I do admire her strength in this story. No one can put her down. I do love that Rhett helped to free her from the constraints of her society that she hated even if she didn't know she did, but she didn't have the self-character to stop herself from going too far or getting too brutal.
She deadens her heart basically. By the end of the book, I simply hated her. In that final moment, the climax, where she finally figures out what she wants, I start to feel for her again and my hate gave way to pity for her. Rhett is such a scoundrel, but he is fiercely honest and can not stand pretense. He knows Scarlett for who she really is and he loves her. He was hard and rough, but I always had a soft spot for him. He too could not accept the constraints of his strict society and he threw them off fiercely.
I admire him. But the end breaks my heart for him. He is one of the best father figures I have seen. It is amazing to see him and Bonnie together. It is some of my favorite parts of the book to see his love transform him. Melanie, seeming so mousey, but there is a strength of character no one else has in this book. She is kind to all and she ignores class and what others would do. She is kind to murderers, prostitutes and anyone that needs help.
She always says what she means and she is the silent hero in this story, the one shining good person in this story. Rhett knows it and he has the utmost respect for her. She is the greatest character written on the page in my opinion. Scarlett gets all the attention, but Melanie is something else here.
She is a true angel on Earth. She made the story and really it all hinged on her. Ashley is the love interest for Scarlett, the beaux she can never have. He is a refined gentleman who knows nothing else in life and when his world collapses, he is nothing. Scarlett has unrequited love for him the entire novel.
She doesn't really see him, she only sees what she wants to see. This love only lives in her mind. She has made this man what love is and it blinds her to reality and she prizes herself for being so grounded in reality.
She wants to understand Ashley, but she can't. She is too different and she only wants to change him to be who she wants him to be. I'm sure most people know the gist of this story and they know the famous last line. The movies adds the word 'Frankly'. This is a love story, but it's a tragedy at the same time. The ending could not be more perfect. It is the most gut-wrenching, most painful, most perfect ending I have read. I can only say that this novel is worth every word.
I admit that pages do drag a bit, but it's still interesting enough to keep going and it's worth reading. Everyone should read this book once in their lives. I was swept away in this story. It is simply a masterpiece. It is the American classic novel. I have loved this book and I will be sad not to be able to visit with Melanie and cluck my tongue at the goings on of Scarlett. My heart still weeps for that ending.
Oh goddess, I love this story. What an experience!! The movie is good, but it simply can't move you the way the book can. Rhett Butler is perfect in the movie and he was my picture in my head reading this. View all 40 comments. I don't like reviewing overly popular, classic books because let's face it, what more can be said regarding a book that 8, Goodreads reviewers haven't already covered, from 1 star through 5 star opinions?
So I'll just say that I read this novel for the first time when I was only about 14 years old. And re-read it, and re-read it, and re-read it again several times until around age And then I never picked it up again until age 48 that's 30 years of reading silence for those of you mathamat I don't like reviewing overly popular, classic books because let's face it, what more can be said regarding a book that 8, Goodreads reviewers haven't already covered, from 1 star through 5 star opinions?
And then I never picked it up again until age 48 that's 30 years of reading silence for those of you mathamatically inclined Between 18 and 48 is a huge gulf of life and living that might make a re-read a very disasterous endeavor, and I know for a fact that for a few of my GR friends, it was just that, and they regret replacing the youthful memories of this book with more mature ones.
I understand their feelings. I wondered if my own would replicate them. I'm glad to say that didn't happen in my case. Not that GwtW is an easy book to digest in this politically correct era. It's hard to convey just how cringe-worthy at times a book written in the 's by an American Southern writer about the American South during the Civil War can effect modern sensibilities. You have to read it to believe it. The racism, the language, the attitude is all there in black and white pardon the pun and they can't be ignored.
Those views, those attitudes existed, and still exist for many in this country and all over the world. I don't condone it, but for me personally, I give most books written before a little handicap going into them. Not every reader can, and that's OK. The continuing strength of Mitchell's epic novel is in her capturing of a feeling of loss to a period, a people and a place.
Some would argue that it's good this era has crumbled into dust, and I'll not argue the point with them. But as a Southerner myself, I have a deep love and appreciation for my place of birth, and understand the pride and loyalty Southerners take in their homeland, because I feel it very much. Mitchell's saga isn't so much the love story of Scarlett and Rhett as it appeared to me as a teen. The real love story is Mitchell's to her homeland.
Warts and all. The writing is so lovely, so authenic. The feelings and expressions ring true. I used to hate her as a teen, but as an adult I found myself cheering her on in places, and understanding her selfish motivations more then I could have ever imagined.
What that says about me I don't know, but Scarlett is a fighter, and a survivor, and I've got to admire her tenacity if not her moral fiber. This book is a masterpiece. A flawed, uncomfortable masterpiece. I'm glad I re-read it. Just call me 8, View all 39 comments. What an epic read! I wonder if they are not the most selfish, egotistical characters in all of literature. Ok, so Rhett shows a bit of a human side in the end thanks to Bonnie, but for most of the book, he seemed to me as unscrupulous as Stendahl's Julien Sorel of the epic Le Rouge et le Noir.
The unrequited and ultimately fruitless love of Ashley and Scarlett was torture throughout. It is one of thos What an epic read! It is one of those books where you want to scream at Scarlett for her actions over and over again. It also occurs to me that there would never have been a Sam and Diane had there not been a Scarlett and Rhett beforehand.
The author did such a superb job of describing the inner life of her protagonists and highlighting this against their actions in the real world. The war scenes were gripping despite an extreme pro-Confederacy bent and the burning of Atlanta so well-described.
My second sentence generated some commentary, so I think I should set down my justifications a bit. The characters that get slightly better treatment Uncle Pete, Porc, and especially Mammy are those who are submissive and grateful to their "employers".
In general, they are never treated as equals or as humans, but rather as chattel and with no aspiration to humanity. True, as Jillian mentions in the comments, that Mammy does mention that she is free, but her comment is ignored and incomprehensible to Scarlett.
There is not a single example of a solid POC character with a soul and a truly independent destiny. Jillian points out below that Mitchell's real views were probably more nuanced, but the book clearly places a paternalistic or animalistic filter on all descriptions of POC.
There is no description of the violence of overseers Jonas being a shitheel but an import from the North , no hint of the systematic rape of black slaves producing generations of bastards, all missing from this description , and mocking derision of the release of Uncle Tom's Cabin when it is released and read by the characters.
Again, this is a comment on the book but also about the writer as if she wanted to, she could have presented alternative points of view through, say, a minor character or something. The only incidence of violence directly referred to was the revenge taken against the attempted rape of Scarlett granted that she is saved by her ex-slave Big Sam and nothing of the random lynching and domestic terrorism.
True that Ashley tries to work against it, but even he is drawn in with Frank into Klan violence resulting in his being shot and Frank Kennedy, Scarlett's second husband, being killed. It was particularly deplorable when she describes with implicit agreement the violent reaction to the fifteenth amendment the right for POC to vote. It is not mentioned that the white planter class was justifiably disenfranchised as punishment for having broken with the Union in open rebellion.
Never once does Mitchell give a sympathetic word for abolition, for Lincoln, or for anything north of the Mason-Dixon line. One could argue that she was being journalistic and detached, but these passages serve no purpose in the overall narrative and seem to me that they are the author's own viewpoint being overlayed on the story. I think that the nuance here is in how characters react to the dissolution of the South: "Well, this is the reason.
We bow to the inevitable. We're not wheat, we're buckwheat! When a storm comes along, it flattens ripe wheat because it's dry and can't bend with the wind. But ripe buckwheat's got sap in it and it bends. And when the wind has passed, it springs up almost as straight and strong as before. We aren't a stiff-necked tribe. We're mightly limber when a hard wind's blowing, because we know it pays to be limber. When trouble comes we bow to the inevitable without any mouthing, and we work and we smile and we bide our time.
And we play along with lesser folks and we take what we can get from them. And when we're strong enough, we kick the folks whose necks we've climbed over. That, my child, is the secret of survival. It is ironic that the speaker says that the south isn't stiff-necked because that is one of the most characteristic features of Southern thinking. Never before had the cleavage of the very rich and the very poor been so marked. Those on top took no thought for those less fortunate.
Except for the negroes, of course. They must have the very best. The best of schools and lodgings and amusements, for they were the power in politics and every negro vote counted. But for all the recently impoverished Atlanta people, they could starve and drop in the streets for all the newly rich Republicans cared. The "very best" not truly having been granted because they are still the poorest population in the South and in Georgia in particular.
Of course, there were opportunists and grifters among the carpetbaggers, but let us not forget that both Rhett and Scarlett also took full advantage of the chaos to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor. There is even an exchange where Scarlett explicitly states that she prefers taking advantage of the poor because there is less chance of repercussions and they are there to be taken advantage of. I saw this as wanting your cake and eating it too. I would also point out that the resistance to the black vote was especially present with the white women and that this racist viewpoint continued up to Mitchell's day in the equivalent to Mellie's various sewing circles in the struggle for suffrage in which white women wanted the vote at the expense of that of POC.
That isn't to say that there is not a lot of nuance in GWTW. There is an interesting commonality of antiwar sentiment in Ashley and Rhett - both are against the war but for entirely different reasons.
For Ashley, he can't stand the violence and yet still goes off to fight from the get-go based on his romantic principles of fighting for the Cause and his lost colonial dream. For Rhett, he knows that the South will ultimately lose and decides to profit from the war as much as possible, only joining the Cause at the last gasp in Johnston's Tennessee campaign, abandoning a freaked-out Scarlett after fleeing a burning Atlanta one of the most gripping scenes in the book!
The studio shooting the film burned dozens of old studios in Hollywood to make the effects as realistic as possible. There is also a lot of nuance in the way Scarlett and Ashley never quite become adults and how Scarlett is FINALLY aware of this towards the end when it is too late , but Ashley never quite makes it over the hill to adulthood and even after losing Mellie, he remains unreachable by Scarlett.
The primary romance in the novel is, of course, the epic story of Scarlett and Rhett which takes several hundred pages to turn into a marriage and just one birth to turn into a fiasco. I did love the description on page of Scarlett's honeymoon in New Orleans that despite loving the time there, she left without knowing anything about him.
She is so egoistic and narcissistic that she can only see Rhett's love when it is truly too late and Rhett has to give her a dose of hard love with his famous line, "my dear, I don't give a damn. I love this paragraph: For a moment, his eyes came back to her, wide and crystal gray and there was admiration in them.
Then, suddenly, they were remote again and she knew with a sinking heart that he had not been thinking about starving.
They were always like people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much that, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving here in chilly twilight dews. She wanted to catch him by the shoulders and hug him to her, make him realize that she was flesh and blood and not something he had read or dreamed. If she could only feel that sense of oneness with him for which she had yearned since that day, so long ago, when he had come home from Europe and stood on the steps of Tara and smiled up at her.
It is this tension that vibrates throughout and makes it such an exhilarating read. Oh, the irony. It is an obvious classic that deserved its Pulitzer without reserve. I haven't watched the movie in many, many years, but I do recall some of the more epic scenes and as I mention in a comment below, I think it has only been equaled in Visconti's adaptation of Il Gattopardo on the silver screen in terms of a 19c drama with costumes and balls.
Not only that, but the background of Lampedusa's masterpiece is very similar: the characters in both live through a civil war that destroys their way of life and opens up a new era, and we get to observe how each of the protagonists copes with the new reality, whether they sink or swim.
In both cases, the writing is superb and in both cases, the film versions are among the greatest films ever produced. I just rewatched the movie and wanted to make a few comments. First off, Vivian Leigh is breathtaking throughout and Clark Gable shows a great character arc through the movie from debonair, devil-may-care pirate and womanizer to caring father to bereaved father and back to cynical loner again. The film cuts out Scarlett's babies with George and Frank and accelerates some events Gerald dies much earlier , but essentially captures the primary events and best dialogs from the book.
I think the film was even more racist than the book in some ways certainly the scrolling text made me cringe at many points in the film , and yet they did not cut the scene where Scarlett gives Pork Gerald's gold watch and the scene where Scarlett confronts Ashley about his hypocrisy about opposing prison labor at the mill while having no qualms with slave labor.
They also pass over the fact that Frank and Ashley are in the KKK on a raid on the fateful night after the attempted rape this only hinted at by the expression on the white man's face, the director having decided for whatever reason not to have the black actor rip apart her bodice as in the book version - too shocking for an audience in the late 30s perhaps?
The scene of Scarlett crossing the rail yard looking for Dr Meade when Mellie is giving birth and the subsequent scene of the flight from burning Atlanta are very impressive and emotional scenes. Lastly, the costumes, and in particular Scarlett's dresses including the impromptu one from her velvet curtains that she makes to try to seduce an imprisoned Rhett to pay for increased taxes at Tara are extraordinary.
View all 26 comments. View all 4 comments. Also: it won the Pulitzer Prize — so it had to have literary merit, right? And many people whose tastes I respect on this site love it. Then, while perusing my local library, I saw a brand new hardcover copy of the 75th anniversary edition, and that was my sign.
I thought: As God is my witness, now is the time to read it. And read it. And keep on reading it. I renewed it several times. It took me well over a month to get through albeit during a super busy time at work. But like Scarlett clawing her way back to Tara after the war, I persevered.
And I'm so glad I did. A brutal war and its aftermath. A moving romance. An examination of ethics and morality. There are big themes like money vs. Culturally ignorant. BUT: Margaret Mitchell makes us root for her. And ultimately, even though she complains while doing it, she helps her family. RHETT Swarthy, muscular, tanned, hairy, interested in fashion, well-travelled, super well-educated even though he was kicked out of West Point, Rhett Butler is a bit of a romance novel wish fulfillment type.
And he always seems steps ahead of everyone else. But the dashing, enterprising blockade-runner is one helluva romantic lead. The evolution of his relationship with Scarlett is so carefully and artfully structured that the final pages will make your heart ache.
There's a strange disconnect, too. Often the Blacks are described as lazy and loafing. And yet, Mitchell frequently has her characters working "as hard as a field hand. Worse, in sections that are supposed to be written in some objective third-person narration they provide lots of fascinating information, to be fair , Mitchell clearly sides with the Confederates.
The way Mitchell interweaves the war into the narrative is incredible. You see it from a macro and micro perspective. One of the best minor characters is Grandma Fontaine , an embittered old woman whom everyone including Scarlett fears. Good call, filmmakers! And the book also features a fascinating motif of Scarlett having nightmares that is ingeniously integrated into the climax.
That couldn't be done in the movie. The book features one of the most unforgettable characters and romances in the canon.
View all 68 comments. Jan 17, Luffy rated it it was amazing Shelves: classic , historical-fiction , pretty-good , anti-feminist , popular , superb-characterization , 5-star.
Review to come. So far this has been an engrossing read. I remember watching the movie an having mixed feelings about it, but the book has less of those moments when you are kind of exhorting the plot to stop plodding. It really puts into perspective how we are the products of our culture. This is definitely five-star material. Finished the book finally. What a chunkster!
What a story! The words kept coming, and I kept being riveted all the way. A slight complaint is that the main character Scarl Review to come.
A slight complaint is that the main character Scarlet has too much grief to bear, and there's no respite for her. The last chapter took me 10 hours to complete. It was so unrelenting in tension. But people labelling it as a romance is sometimes a disservice. It's so much more. That's it from me. View all 24 comments. Jun 05, Judy rated it it was ok Shelves: romance. Having a hard time slogging through the blatant racism in this book.
Times sure have changed. And thank God for that. Okay, nearly forty years since I first read it, the epic love story set against the brutality of the Civil War still manages to sweep me up. But the racism still wrankles, especially the glorification of the Ku Klux Klan--southern gentlemen had no other choice.
They weren't bullies terrorizing people because of the color of their skin, they were protecting their women from the rap Having a hard time slogging through the blatant racism in this book. They weren't bullies terrorizing people because of the color of their skin, they were protecting their women from the rapacious appetites of the newly freed slaves. Mitchell says more than once that the blacks were like children and couldn't manage without whites taking care of them.
There's a part in the book where she describes how Scarlett's mother Ellen would evaluate the Negro children, selecting the best and the brightest to be house servants.
The others would be taught a trade and if they failed at that, they become field hands. As the best and the brightest of the race, the house servants were the ones who stayed with their masters, apparently aware of their own limitations. And yet, this is a book about a strong woman who actively defies the strictures for women of her time. Scarlett runs Tara, she becomes successful at business, she bosses grown men around, even though she was taught that a lady must hide her intelligence and always appear subservient and helpless around men.
Since they had little if any rights, that was the only recourse for women at the time. I find it ironic that Ms.
Mitchell never realized that just as the women were playing the role of fragile creatures subservient to the fathers and husbands, their black slaves were doing the same thing--hiding their abilities and intelligence because they had no other choice. A good reason not to go to war. Just finished my most recent rereading of GWTW and fell in love with this book once again. Margaret Mitchell never fails to weave her magic no matter how many times I've read it.
GWTW is not just a romantic story involving Scarlett, Ashley and Rhett but also a well researched account of the civil war. Since the victors always write the history concerning any war it's fascinating to learn about the other side of the story. View all 89 comments. Jul 03, Zen Cho rated it did not like it Shelves: war , romance , historical. Copied over from my blog: I'd known this was racist in a vague sort of way, not remembering much about the book or movie except bosoms and swooning, but wow, I didn't know it was that mindblowingly racist.
The people who wanted to cut the n-word from Huckleberry Finn should all get together and have let's-set-Gone-With-The-Wind-on-fire parties. Man, if they applied their efforts to Gone With The Wind they could probably cut the book short by about a hundred pages.
I should say I like Scarlett as a Copied over from my blog: I'd known this was racist in a vague sort of way, not remembering much about the book or movie except bosoms and swooning, but wow, I didn't know it was that mindblowingly racist.
I should say I like Scarlett as a character and found all the romance and striving bits interesting in themselves, but the book is sick through and through. It was very much worth reading. It's a bracing reminder of the wariness one should have of any nostalgia for false Arcadias. Highlights include: - Former slaveholders reproving Scarlett for hiring leased convicts to work on her mills. When Scarlett points out they were happy to use slave labour, they respond that their slaves weren't miserable!
Narrative agrees! It's like satire, but it's not meant to be! Urgh, I feel gross just remembering the line. But they were forced to it! They had the best intentions! I actually started worrying towards the end that I was going to come out of the book a more racist person. The stuff on alluvial deposits is particularly comforting.
One star for Scarlett and for the un-put-downable quality of the writing it's throw-at-the-wallable, but I was never bored -- just furious. I'd give an extra star for her dynamic with Melanie which I kind of love but what does it say when Scarlett comes off as LESS racist than Melanie because she buys into the poisonous ideals of the Confederacy less?
View all 19 comments. I am sorry to say this, I do not mean to sound cruel, I understand their considerable stress, but most of the main characters in this book were just plain stupid. Some might not be overtly so but they were in terrible need of serious self-awareness, at any rate. I can't phantom how this was called a love story..
I started the book adoring Scarlette, then intriqued by Rhett Rhett, who knew exactly how not to handle Scarlett view spoiler [then proceeded to expect her to declare her undying love for him while flaunting his infidelity in her face.
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