Comparing Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind

Margaret Mitchell’s novel turned film Gone with the Wind is known as being a timeless classic. The novel was released in June of 1936 and in July of the same year, David O. Selznick, a Hollywood executive, bought the rights to the film for $50,000. Once Selznick bought the rights to Gone with the Wind he began searching for the perfect cast and refused to any further until he could tie down Clark Gable as Rhett Butler. After a two year delay, Selznick was able to finally confirm Gable as Rhett and even landed Vivian Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara, therefore Selznick’s perfect cast was complete. The film later released in theaters in December of 1939. The film adaptation of Gone with the Wind is quite identical to the novel, it even holding true to some of Mitchell’s main ideas such as: overcoming adversity, the transformation of the South, and racial criticism. These three ideas state that the novel was overall about transformation not only within characters, but also for the society in which the characters were a part of, therefore, providing
In a matter of moments, wind, strong and powerful, can destroy all things beautiful. Scarlett can be seen as the wind. Scarlett’s life was normal and her only duty was to marry into a good family. But just like wind, Scarlett was strong, unexpected, and she did not care what was in her way. Scarlett O’Hara tore down everything beautiful in her life. Scarlett took everything and everyone close to her and destroyed them one moment at a time and much like wind, when it was all said and done and settled, there was a calm and it was terrifying. Much like wind in a storm, when all becomes calm, many know that something more furious and disastrous is headed their way and for the first time in Scarlett’s life, she was calm and therefore she would bring disaster. Scarlett truly was gone with the