Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell's romantic epic, Gone With the Wind, owes its remarkable popularity to the climate of sudden self-destruction and dreariness the Depression created. The Old South's grandeur, coupled with its Civil War-era decadence, provided...

Gone with the Wind opens with a grandiose description of the South: according to the opening text, this is the region where “gallantry took its last bow” and “knights and their ladies” took a stand against the onslaught of Northern aggression....

In Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936), Mitchell engages with the concept of white femininity in a number of ways. This essay will consider how, through her characterization of female characters who adhere to, and/or subvert ideas of...