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“The novel charts the evolution of Scarlett O’Hara from a spoiled, sheltered, and superficial pre-war belle to a shrewd postwar plantation and business owner operating in and around Atlanta, Georgia. Scarlett’s family and their plantation home of Tara face endless challenges brought on by the war and its aftermath – including poverty, disease, runaway slaves, labor shortages, marauding Yankee soldiers, the burning of Atlanta, postwar carpetbaggers, crime, inflation, and the death of family and loved ones. Yet Scarlett’s relentless drive to protect her home leads her to overcome each obstacle in turn, including a love triangle that threatens to tear her family apart. For many readers the novel tells the story of the South’s surviving the Civil War, with the new South emerging to replace and succeed the storied South of old.” Read more...
Classic Novels of the American Civil War
Craig A. Warren, Literary Scholar
