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malloryht 's review for:
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
HUTCHINGS BOOK CLUB MAR 2025
The first time I read this book was in high school and I remember being captivated.
Now 15 (!) years later I still love this book. However, there was so much more nuance and moral gray than I remember (or picked up on) the first time. This made the reread very intense— there are so many great things about this book, but I think it’s important to analyze as insight to white, wealthy southerners during the 1860s/1870s AND to white southerners in 1935 when Mitchell wrote and published the book.
It is inaccurate and incomplete to view this as a historical or legitimate perspective to the era. It is certainly romanticized and glosses over racism and some violence with painful flippancy.
The character development in this book is unmatched in any other single volume book I can think of ❤️
The first time I read this book was in high school and I remember being captivated.
Now 15 (!) years later I still love this book. However, there was so much more nuance and moral gray than I remember (or picked up on) the first time. This made the reread very intense— there are so many great things about this book, but I think it’s important to analyze as insight to white, wealthy southerners during the 1860s/1870s AND to white southerners in 1935 when Mitchell wrote and published the book.
It is inaccurate and incomplete to view this as a historical or legitimate perspective to the era. It is certainly romanticized and glosses over racism and some violence with painful flippancy.
The character development in this book is unmatched in any other single volume book I can think of ❤️