A wonderful, amazing book. I did not read GWTW until just a few years ago and I had probably seen the move 30 times. What a revelation! It truly is the Great American Novel, and none better has yet been written. Margaret Mitchell captured the spirit of the American woman better than any modern feminist possibly could. If you have never read it, do yourself a favor and read it!!!
Margaret Mitchell captured the spirit of the Southern woman ... a breed apart from the American woman ... was then and is now.
The movie was wonderful of course, but like any film it condensed some minor story lines and characters.
I agree, reading the book is a great experience.
GWTW is the best bad novel ever written nothing more though it is a fun read. I read it two years ago. No American novel is better than Moby Dick.
Gosh, I've never read it; never considered it, but now I might put it on my summer reading list.
It truly is the Great American Novel, and none better has yet been written. Margaret Mitchell captured the spirit of the American woman better than any modern feminist possibly could.
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No, it was not Great. A good story with interesting character development but not great.
As for capturing the spirit of the American woman, I hope that you don't see the grasping, conniving Scarlett as the archetypal American woman.
"Not trust a darky! Scarlett trusted them far more than most white people. ... They still stuck with their white folks and worked much harder than they ever worked in slave times."
In both the book and the movie, the character Mammy had more sense than all the white characters combined. She spoke more for the social traditions of the South than anyone else.
If I had been a girl, my name would have been Melanie. Plenty of women my age who do have that name.
Multiple times.. one of my favorite of all time.