https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/9/k...adies-fair

A little long, but a good read on the novel, "Gone with the Wind."

And while the article points out how the movie skipped some scenes from the novel, the film still had the same basic point. Despite the title card, there was no glorification of slave society.

"...No, this is assuredly not a soggy, sentimental drama of cavaliers and chivalry, but a candid, even cynical, study of two strong-minded survivors set against the backdrop of America’s greatest social upheaval. Nor is it, as Mitchell readily and repeatedly admitted, a beautifully written book or a masterpiece of plotting. (She could never grasp why it became a bestseller or won the Pulitzer Prize.) But there’s no fictional work that paints a more sweeping and meticulous picture of the South at war, or that contains more characters of that place and time—women and men, black and white—who stir our sympathies and tremble with life. ..."

it should have just ended when she does her "I'll never go hungry again!" thing...and my goodness, could they insert that damn song maybe 10 more times...I didn't get to hear it enough lol