Gone With The Wind
Written by Margaret Mitchell Summarized by Brian Payton The novel being summarized is titled , written by Margaret Mitchell. It was published in 1936, after it took her seven years to write, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1937. was the only book Ms. Mitchell wrote and is an American Classic. was a story of men and women living in the south during the war between the states and of the south�s transformation after the was. The novel began in about 1861 at Tara and Twelve Oaks, two southern plantations in Georgia. We were given a glance of the hospitality and generosity of plantation life. When the men went off to war, the women moved to Atlanta. While in Atlanta, they worked as nurses as ...
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There were four main characters in the story. They were Scarlett O�Hara, Ashley Wilkes, Melanie Hamilton-Wilkes, and Rhett Butler. Scarlett, Ashley, and Melanie were raised together, and Rhett Butler was an outsider who came from Charleston. Scarlett was the daughter of a wealthy Irish plantation owner. She was not beautiful but she was spoiled. She was selfish and scheming. She was also charming so men easily fell in love with her. Scarlett was obsessively in love with Ashley Wilkes and attempted several times to lure him away from his lovely wife Melanie. She was also attracted to Rhett Butler and eventually married him. Scarlett was a survivor. When she was faced with a problem, she took charge; whether it was taking care of Melanie when she had the baby, shooting a union soldier, building the lumber company, or taking care of something else. Melanie Hamilton, in contrast to Scarlett, was unselfish and gentle. She always saw the good in people and situations and looked beyond ...
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