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mcskireader 's review for:
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
I watched this movie a lot growing up and have read the book a few times so this novel will always have sentimental value to me because I could quote it before I ever cracked the spine in middle school.
That being said, the last two hundred pages are always agony to get through and although no other ending would be fitting for such characters, I will never stop wishing Scarlett and Rhett weren't so selfish and messed up and that they all live happily ever after. And that's probably one of the reasons it's a Pulitzer winner. To love and loathe them, for 1300 pages to relatively breeze by with arguably some of American's most memorable literary characters up against the backdrop of the Civil War is impressive. Additionally so because it holds up in spite of the racism, revisionist history and the sexism. This book is epic.
That being said, the last two hundred pages are always agony to get through and although no other ending would be fitting for such characters, I will never stop wishing Scarlett and Rhett weren't so selfish and messed up and that they all live happily ever after. And that's probably one of the reasons it's a Pulitzer winner. To love and loathe them, for 1300 pages to relatively breeze by with arguably some of American's most memorable literary characters up against the backdrop of the Civil War is impressive. Additionally so because it holds up in spite of the racism, revisionist history and the sexism. This book is epic.