Gone with the Wind | Essays and Criticism

  • Gender Roles in Gone With the Wind

    In the following essay, the author analyzes Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind with respect to traditional Southern gender roles.

  • A Margaret Mitchell Overview

    In the essay below, Millichap provides a critical overview of Mitchell's novel and the circumstances around its writing and publication, taking special note of the elements that make the work especially appealing to young adults.

  • Going with the Wind

    The critical approach Cowley follows is undogmatic and is characterized by a willingness to view a work from whatever perspective—social, historical, aesthetic—that the work itself seems to demand for its illumination.