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Gone with the Wind
——Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell's first and only published, best-selling and Reconstruction Period novel that first appeared in 1936, but was mostly written in the late 1920s.
The novel had a great success throughout the United States and around the world. It has been translated into about 27 languages in 37 countries. At present, Gone with the Wind is still one of the best-selling novels in the world.
Gone With The Wind
Book: Author, Main characters and Plot
Film: Main Actor & Actress, Awards Theme
Author
Margaret Mitchell:born in Atlanta, Georgia. She spent her childhood in the laps of Civil War veterans and of her maternal relatives, who had lived through the Civil War. After graduating from Washington Seminary, she attended Smith College, but just one year later,in 1918,She returned to Atlanta to take over the household after her mother's death earlier that year from the great Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.
Margaret Mitchell admired people who had gumption(进取心), people who fought their way through hard times successfully and came out survivors. She said that if her novel, Gone with the Wind, had a theme it was survival, "I wrote about the people who had gumption and the people who didn't." With Gone with the Wind Margaret brought a promising message to all people - "Tomorrow is another day."
Scarlett O'Hara
Rhett Butler
Main characters
Scarlett O'Hara
Scarlett is a pretty, unique Southern belle who grows up on the Georgia plantation of Tara in the years before the Civil War. Selfish, shrewd, and vain, Scarlett inherits the strong will of her father, but also desires to please her well-bred, genteel mother.
Scarlett O'Hara
When hardships plague Scarlett, she shoulders the troubles of her family and friends. Scarlett’s desire for the Southern gentleman Ashley and the opportunistic New Southerner Rhett Butler makes use of the South’s struggle to cling to tradition and still survive in the new era.
Rhet