Gone with the Wind (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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
- Principal Characters: Scarlett O’Hara, Ellen, Ashley Wilkes, Melanie Hamilton, India, Charles Hamilton, Frank Kennedy, Rhett Butler, Bonnie Blue, Miss Pittypat, Mammy, Wade Hampton Hamilton
- 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
The Story:
Scarlett O’Hara, sixteen, was the most popular belle in Clayton County, Georgia, where her family’s plantation, Tara, was located. The daughter of fiery Gerald O’Hara and Ellen Robillard O’Hara, Scarlett had her father’s courage and temper, which her genteel mother and her slave Mammy tried to “refine.”
The best families in the county were invited to nearby Twelve Oaks plantation for Ashley Wilkes’s birthday party in April, 1861, when talk concerned whether the South would secede from the Union. Ashley announced his engagement to his cousin,...
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