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    A Study Guide for Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind (film entry)"
    A Study Guide for Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind (film entry)"
    A Study Guide for Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind (film entry)"
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    A Study Guide for Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind (film entry)"

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    A Study Guide for Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind (film entry)," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 1, 2016
    ISBN9781535828123
    A Study Guide for Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind (film entry)"

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      A Study Guide for Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind (film entry)" - Gale

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      Gone with the Wind

      Margaret Mitchell

      1939

      Introduction

      Margaret Mitchell's first and only novel, Gone with the Wind, was a best seller even before its first publication on June 30, 1936. Even with a higher-than-usual sales price, the initial printing of ten thousand copies quickly ran out, and by the time of the official release, a hundred thousand more copies were printed. The book has sold more than thirty million copies, often outselling the current best seller in any given year.

      This phenomenal success carried over to the 1939 film version of the book, which producer David O. Selznick won the rights to make with a record-breaking bid a month after the book's release. Over the course of three years, the watched as Selznick Studios underwent a very public process of auditioning famous and not-so-famous actors for the key roles that had so quickly become ingrained in the popular imagination, spending a fortune to design sets and costumes and to recreate the burning of Atlanta, one of the centerpieces of the novel. The resulting film was well worth the effort, earning thirteen Academy Award nominations (a record that would stand for the next twenty years) and yielding what many consider to be one of the finest examples of moviemaking ever to come from the Hollywood studio system. Adjusted for inflation, it is still the highest-grossing film of all time, beating out such blockbusters as Star Wars, Avatar, and E.T.: The Extraterrestrial.

      Gone with the Wind, film and book, follows the story of Scarlett O'Hara, a spoiled rich girl raised on a Southern plantation, and her struggles as the Civil War destroys the world she knew. Lying to get her way, marrying for money when she has to, and even killing when her own life is on the line, Scarlett is driven by both love and necessity to be a strong woman when she was raised to be genteel and decorative.

      Plot Summary

      Gone with the Wind opens with an overture, with selections from the soundtrack playing over a richly layered picture of the Georgia sky. The overture is a tradition in theater, to give audiences time to settle in their seats before the show. It is not necessary in a film because late audience members entering the theater cannot interrupt the performers who were filmed months or years earlier. The later intermission, which also plays music over a still screen shot, may not seem relevant to viewers who can pause or skip over parts of the film, but for audiences viewing this nearly four-hour film in theaters, the intermission afforded a necessary break.

      The action begins with sixteen-year-old Scarlett O'Hara sitting on the steps of her family home, called Tara, talking with the Tarleton twins from a nearby plantation. The boys are excited about the coming war, but Scarlett finds this subject boring. The subject changes to the upcoming barbecue at the Wilkes plantation. When they tell her that Ashley Wilkes is to announce his engagement to Melanie Hamilton at that barbecue, Scarlett is stricken, unable to admit her secret love for Ashley. She later talks to her father, Gerald O'Hara, who worries that her interest in Ashley might be imprudent, reminding Scarlett her that most of the young men

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