Gone with the Wind (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Mitchell
- First Published: 1936
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1861-1873
- Setting: Atlanta and Tara Plantation, Georgia
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, War fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Self-discovery, Suffering, Love or romance, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Marriage, Poverty or poor people, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Plantations or plantation life, Civil War, Farms, farmers, or farming, Upper classes, Death or dying, Greed, Reconstruction, Ambition, Stereotypes
- Locales: South (U.S.), Atlanta, GA
Characters Discussed
Scarlett O’Hara, a Georgia belle. Gently bred on Tara plantation and the wife of Charles Hamilton, she finds herself, through the fortunes of war, a widow and the mistress of a ruined plantation with a family to feed. With an indomitable will to survive and an unquenchable determination to keep Tara, she improves her fortunes with the aid of her own native abilities and opportunistic marriages to Frank Kennedy and Rhett Butler.
Ashley Wilkes, Scarlett O’Hara’s sensitive, sophisticated neighbor, with whom she fancies herself in love. His genteel...
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