Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is one such book that tells of war and its effects. The world can never have enough books that tell of how war devastates people both individually and collectively. Artistic Representation of Gone with the Wind ‘ Gone with the Wind’ is the only novel by Margaret Mitchell to be published in her lifetime but scores of decades after Margaret Mitchell’s death, the controversies around Gone With The Wind are anything but gone with the wind. Margaret Mitchell faced a lot of backlash for racial controversies in ‘ Gone with the Wind’ especially about her depiction of Negroes and slavery but she does not agree with her detractors, saying that the black characters are some of the most dignified characters in the book. Then Scarlett O’Hara the protagonist is impatient and cold to even her children. On the one hand is Ellen O’Hara, strong, ladylike and perfect, likened to The Virgin Mary of the Catholic faith, giving all of herself in service to everyone around her. In ‘ Gone with the Wind’, Mitchell portrayed these maternal images in two very different ways. One of the most striking connections between ‘ Gone with the Wind’ and Margaret Mitchell’s personal life was her relationship with her mother-she revered and admired her mother but her mother’s aloofness left her a lot to be desired. While ‘ Gone with the Wind’ is a work of fiction, many of its characters and events were inspired by Margaret Mitchell’s true life. John Marsh would later play a key role in editing the manuscript of ‘ Gone with the Wind’. John marsh, her husband at the time, had been bringing her books to read from the public library to keep her occupied in her convalescence but one day, had told her it was high time she wrote her own book instead of always reading books by other people. She began writing ‘ Gone with The Wind’ in 1926 while recovering from a slow-healing leg injury that had forced her to quit her job as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal. However, she got insights into the personal experiences of the war survivors from stories her folks told, especially her Irish-American grandmother, Annie Fitzgerald Stephens. Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, decades after the war, and the era ‘ Gone with The Wind’ is set in.
Swiftly in the wake of her heartbreak comes the American Civil War with its adversities that would keep her in a continuous battle with her worst fears, the cynical jeers of Rhett Butler, and an inextricable connection with the gentle Melanie Hamilton whom she resents for marrying Ashley Wilkes. Scarlett’s sheltered, indulgent life first gets hit by the news that Ashley Wilkes, the man she is in love with, is to marry another woman, Melanie Hamilton.
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