Jessie’s Reviews > Gone with the Wind > Status Update

To anyone justifying the racism that drips from this text; anyone calling it, "historically appropriate" for 1936 or, even, "indicative of the Civil War era" -- I point you to the wide spread abolitionism that already existed among real living people in the 1800s -- pre 1860s even! I'm talking about folks who were already generations ahead of 20th century MITCHELL, let alone her despicable 19th century protagonist.

Frankly, at best I would say Scarlett O’Hara has a personality disorder (Histrionic?)

AND it’s offensive that Margaret Mitchell uses this text to create some kind of case for Scarlett as feminist archetype. I reject the brand of patriarchal white feminism being served up here.