The slaves seem unbothered by their work loads in one scene fieldhands return from a day’s labor singing and laughing. The novel reads more like propaganda at times than it does literature. The freed slaves, taken out of their shackles, lack direction and are prone to base instincts. The Yankee soliders in the novel are inevitably mean and corrupt. Gone With the Wind’s ahistorical portrayal of the antebellum South had a ripple effect. “It leaves evil out of the Garden of Tara,” he wrote, describing how Mitchell’s novel perceives the South. It is bad, according to Watkins, not so much for what it contains as for what it leaves out. Watkins described Mitchell’s work as “a bad novel” false to historial facts. The saga of the Old South, where slaves happily worked in the fields and romance was always in the air only to be vanquished by the evil Yankee invaders of the Civil War, has not aged well. “It’s just a story,” she said, responding to reviewers who dissected her characters, finding complicated psychological and moral insights. Mitchell was surprised by the book’s success and had few literary pretenses about her work. Despite its fame, and maybe because of it, Gone With the Wind never really garnered critical acclaim. Within six months, the book had sold its first million. The initial press run was for 200,000 copies. The movie of the same name only enhanced the legend of the Old South plantation Tara and its heroine, Scarlett O’Hara. Her novel Gone with the Wind, published in 1936, grew into a publishing phenemonon and quickly became one of the best-selling books of all time. Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Writer Margaret Mitchell was born on November 8th, 1900, at the beginning of a new century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.
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