Get Annual Plans at a discount when you buy 2 or more! hanging, and she leaves filled with bitterness and shame. Many African-Americans, like these protesters outside a theater in 1940, objected to the flawed history and racist stereotypes in Gone With the Wind, including its depiction of happy slaves. TO CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION AND AVOID BEING CHARGED, YOU MUST CANCEL BEFORE THE END OF THE FREE TRIAL PERIOD. Gone with the Wind: When Scarlett met Rhett - &MEETINGS Following the 1864 Battle of Atlanta, Butler joined the Confederate States Army, serving until the end of the war. I do not intend to let any trouble-making Professional Negros change my feelings towards the race with whom my relations have always been those of affection and mutual respect, she wrote to a friend. Complete your free account to request a guide. if the army is so short of men they have to resort to using darkies.. Thanks for creating a SparkNotes account! May 2, 2023, SNPLUSROCKS20 Members will be prompted to log in or create an account to redeem their group membership. Brent, Stuart, Thomas, and Boyd Tarleton! No, you're wrong, terribly wrong! "Scarlett O'Hara: You can't leave me, please. for a customized plan. the dress, on the condition that Scarlett let her act as chaperone. to start your free trial of SparkNotes Plus. The letters R.K.B. She does not believe or trust that he loves her, and often uses her idealized infatuation with the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes to comfort herself from the worldly, and frequently flippant, Rhett. Teeming with life, it offers surprising insights into the Confederacy and the Old South. most painful losses in battle are made bearable by the spirit of At this point, skeptics might respond that subsuming the actual politics of the war, and the pro-slavery convictions of the Confederacy, beneath the gauzy romance of the plantation is precisely what the Lost Cause has been aboutthat in the end, Gone With the Wind is inescapably a set of political claims, designed to promote political ends. But she also cherishes, and tries to capture, the magic, the yelping, the practical jokes, and a mothers whisper. that was solidly Democratic; Scalawags, Southerners who traitorously supported The thousands of immigrants whod be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, the foundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal minesall the things we havent got. First, he leaves Scarlett in hostile territory and joins the Confederate army. In that case, as in Mitchells, we would not exactly be talking about ancient history. Instead, it became a sensation, selling nearly a million copies within six months, and earning her the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.