A review by pallavishakya
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

5.0

The main character or heroine of the book Scarlet O'Hara is probably the most fascinating and unexpected woman I have ever read about. She is naughtiest, craziest, clever, jealous, brave, daring girl. The novel is actually about the Civil War in America, when Abraham Lincoln signs the treaty of freeing all the slaves and Southerners who don't want to accept it fight for the cause with Northeners (Yankees) to have their rights back. I had never thought that the book about the war could be so amazing! The writer, Margaret Mitchell has written with such a flow that nobody would ever get bored or confused reading such a great novel. And the relations Scarlet with the characters like Rhett Butler and Asheley Wilkes and Melanie, the conflicts within her life, her love of life and parties and gowns, her carelessness and independence, every aspect of her is so vivacious. She is what every girl wants to be like and at some times she is someone who you would just want to slap and shout at. She is a mystery and her love life with Rhett Butler is also not less than mystery. She thinks she is in love with Ashely Wilkes, Melanie's husband, but I don't think Ashely is any good for her. I haven't come to the end of the book and I am wondering what will I do after I finish it at last. But it sure is a wonderful book of all. War is so dreadful and things after war is finished are much much dreadful. I felt like I went through the same starvation Scarlet and her family went through, and it made me hungry myself. I even thought, the Scarlet's hunger for money and security were very relevant and she was the bravest girl to go through all the miseries and rise up again to be healthy and wealthy. In spite of all the bad things happened to her two husbands, her mother and father and Melanie, she never gave up the hope. She was hopeless optimistic and she always says that, "Tomorrow is a new day and everything can start anew." But you could be bewildered, mad and sorry for her for the roads she took to become rich. It sure costs a good deal of reputation and time for her to do that. Melanie on the other hand is just the opposite of Scarlet, but brave and loving. She is so so good, that every time I read the novel, I thought how nice would be to have a friend like her, who never judges anyone... I, like Scarlet never understood Rhett Butler. He is good but he tries to become bad to her. And I was so sad to imagine the fear and regret in his face when the daughter he loved the most died! How he must have suffered! And the end was sad yet hopeful.... Scarlet never loses hope, does she?