Gone with The Wind by Margaret Mitchell This novel has everything you could wish for and more- love and hate, War and Peace, embryonic feminism, slavery issues, bravery, humor, a wonderful plot and I have only started naming a few attractions- for the whole it would take many pages.

 Gone with The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

This novel has everything you could wish for and more- love and hate, War and Peace, embryonic feminism, slavery issues, bravery, humor, a wonderful plot and I have only started naming a few attractions- for the whole it would take many pages.


One of the best books ever that has inspired one of the best films, this is a rare chance.

Scarlett O’Hara is one of the best heroines and also one of the bravest, most resilient and determined characters that have been in print.

This novel has everything you could wish for and more- love and hate, War and Peace, embryonic feminism, slavery issues, bravery, humor, a wonderful plot and I have only started naming a few attractions- for the whole it would take many pages.

The story starts near the beginning of the American Civil War, when two admirers talk with Scarlett about the upcoming ball:

-          We’ll tell you a secret, if we can dance with you
-          What is the secret
-          There is going to be a war soon.

In the first place, Scarlett comes across as a bit of a negative personage- spoiled, arrogant, used with having it her own way most of the time. To add insult to injury, she supports slavery.

There is a first shock for Scarlett when she finds out that the man she loves- Ashley is going to marry Melanie Hamilton.

At a later stage in this impressive and long novel we find out that the romantic interest in Ashley has been rather complicated. With hindsight, it might have been an infatuation and not love.

However, Ashley is one of the main characters and his influence over Scarlett is strong up to the end, or quite near it.

With his wife, there is a strange love and hate relationship, even if Scarlett has to take care of her and their baby, during the worst battles around Atlanta.

When Scarlett faced Ashley with the news that he is getting married, there is a scene:

-          I thought that you cared for me Ashley
-          You have so many admirers, that I never thought…
-          Oh, how could you?! I love you!

And then there are shouts and objects flying.

Witness to all this scandal is Rhett Butler that is the other main character, opposing for most of the time Scarlett, then loving and hating her.

He liked what he saw and starts courting the young woman in an interesting, mocking and ironical way.

Scarlett has a first marriage, becoming Mrs. Hamilton, only because Ashley was getting married, and her husband dies quickly, making her a widow unwilling to give up the pleasure of dressing in beautiful dresses and dancing at parties.

But Rhett Butler solves at least part of the problem, by bidding good money in order to dance with Scarlett- money that would go to the war effort.

With the war won by the North, the situation becomes desperate, and Scarlett even shoots a soldier dead, when he was trying to rob and eventually rape her, and perhaps Melanie.

She becomes married a second time, in order to save her beloved property- Tara.

Trying to lure Rhett, she makes a new dress out of her curtains, for there is nothing left, indeed, Tara is about to go under on account of the new exorbitant taxes.

The second husband is shot and there is much more going on in a novel that you should read, for it offers an amazing pleasure

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