英文电影赏析飘

⑴ 电影《飘》中女主人公最爱说的Tomorrow is another day怎么理解

电影《飘》中女主人公最爱说的Tomorrow is another day有三层意思：

1. Tomorrow is another day。明天又是崭新的一天 (也有“来日方长”的意味）

2. Tomorrow is another day。 明天有明天的事。（不管怎样，明天又是新的一天了）

3. Tomorrow is another day。明天又是新的一天。（有明天就有希望/明天还有指望/明天再说/明天还来得及）

什么是爱？什么是恨？爱和恨可以象两条永不相交的平行线，爱和恨也可能只需要一缕阳光就可以消融。珍惜拥有的人是幸福的，因为我们总是并不确切知道我们需要的到底是什么。太多的人只有在失去的时候，才知道去珍惜。泰戈尔有一句诗我特别喜欢：如果你因失去了太阳而流泪，那么你也将会失去群星。历尽沧桑，你要学会忽略过去。因为——tomorrow is another day。

扩展内容：

《飘》是美国作家玛格丽特·米切尔创作的长篇小说，该作1937年获得普利策文学奖。

小说以亚特兰大以及附近的一个种植园为故事场景，描绘了内战前后美国南方人的生活。作品刻画了那个时代的许多南方人的形象，占中心位置的斯嘉丽、瑞德、艾希礼、梅兰妮等人是其中的典型代表。他们的习俗礼仪、言行举止、精神观念、政治态度，通过对斯嘉丽与瑞德的爱情纠缠为主线，成功地再现了林肯领导的南北战争，美国南方地区的社会生活。

斯嘉丽·奥哈拉

斯嘉丽是一个复杂、独特的人物形象，她的最大特点在于女性气质与男性气质集聚一身。斯嘉丽漂亮、迷人，而在她的一生中任何时期都不忘利用自己的女性优势，比如她利用美貌轻易得到男人的青睐，利用女性的柔弱地位博取同情。同时，她也无法逃脱普通女性的狭隘和感性，比如缺乏知识、对事物的冷静分析和判断，喜欢幻想、盲目追求得不到的东西、自以为是。

然而正如作品一开始就提到的：她如花一样令人赏心悦目的外貌和言谈是后天培养出来的，而不安分的小手和眼睛是属于她自己的，是与生俱来的天性。作为出生在大庄园里的小姐，斯嘉丽接受的教导给了她文雅的外表，亦步亦趋地遵循淑女风范，骨子里的反叛火花却不时的迸发出来，她爬树、掷石子、拒绝像淑女一样吃东西，然而由于缺乏知识和精神追求，斯嘉丽的反叛行为不具进步意义，而仅仅是个人性格的自然表现，是抗争因素在起作用；

她争强好胜，对得不到的东西抱有强烈的欲望，利用女性气质得到爱情，内心却用对男性的强势态度对此不屑一顾；她冷酷无情，对待孩子从不像一般母亲一样百般呵护，她的柔情只有在利益面前才会流露；她不择手段，为达目的不顾及他人和道德；她坚强、有魄力，虽然恨梅兰妮抢走了艾希礼，却像个男人一样遵守承诺，在战火中照顾梅兰妮，并带她逃出困境；在新旧时代的更迭之际，她没有像普通女性一样甘心被摆布，而是突破传统，寻求自我价值的实现。

⑵ 电影《飘》片名 Gone with the Wind 有什么来历和含义

Gone是"Go"的过去分词形式.Wind是"风"的意思."Gone with the wind"是跟着风一起走,也就是随风飘去.
“Gone with the wind”题目代表着美国内战前曾经在美国南方根深蒂固的一种生活方式的结束.就像电影开头所说的那样：There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South...
Here was the last ever to be seen of knights and their Ladies Fair,of Master and of Slave...
Look for it only in books,for it is no more than a dream remembered.
A Civilization gone with the wind.
“a civilization has gone with the wind”,意思是一种文明已经随风而去.随着战争的临近,南方人原本的生活方式已经远去.
一个文明是随风而飘的,最终是要飘散的；一个人的命运是随风而飘的,最终也会飘散.其实又岂只是一个文明的飘散,随着文明飘散的是,无数个生命个体,一代人,一代人的梦想,一代人的生活方式.就像是面对一个终极的目标——死亡——一样,你是选择清醒而悲观空虚地活下去,还是抛开这终极的目标盲目地积极活下去；在一个文明消逝之后,你是选择在缅怀中活下去,还是抛弃过去,从新开始.

⑶ 英语版分析<<飘>>中scarlett的人物性格

Analysis of Scarlett in Gone with the Wind

"Gone With the Wind” is my favorite novel written by Margaret Mitchell, a southerner in the U.S., and the situation is described from the southern point of view. The author, used many stories she heard from her family who had lived through it, to weave this thrilling novel. It is full of dashing, daring men and women, thrilling episodes, and much romance. The heroine Scarlett in this book is so different from a traditional Chinese woman that I have decided to write something about her.

'Gone with the Wind' has represented the turbulent social reality in the South in American Civil War. Scarlett O’hara is beautiful then, in order to realize her dream of living better, she regards love and marriage as a chip of trade. There’s no true love in her three marriages, until the end, she understands that Ashley, the person she bears in mind for twelve years is not her true love, but one beautiful unreal image belongs to the South in the past and does not adapt to this coming new society. The person who she really loves is similar to her --- Rhett Butler.

To understand Scarlett better, I divided the essay into 4 parts as followed.

1. Scarlett’s Growth

Scarlett's growth can be divided mainly in two periods，before the Civil War and after it．To understand Scralett，we should know the two different ways of life have a great influence on Scralett’s character．

Before the Civil War breaks out, Scralett as well as other old aristocratic young ladies in the south lives an easy，luxurious life full of barbecues，balls and flirting with beaus．For a young lady who has only got 16，the life for her just means learning the arts and graces of being more attractive to men，which is also the south society’s regulation of woman．On one hand，by the diligently stubborn teaching of her mother and black mammy, the seed off the purity and tradition are buried deeply in her mind. But on the other hand，her Irish father also influences her by the Irish stubbornness，arrogance，etc．These two spirits conflicts frequently in the young girl’s mind．Just like her spreading skirts，the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap, her true self was poorly concealed．

After the Civil War, Scralett’s true self, which is apparently opposite to the lady-mannered discipline of the old south，crazily yield sand matures in the desolate earth after the war．Scarlett’s anti-traditional behavior is more and more undisguised．

2. Scarlett’s Character of Breaking the Rules

Part of Scarlett's enring charm for me is her aspiration to break the rules. She challenges nineteenth-century society's gender roles repeatedly, running a store and two lumber mills at one point. Scarlett is in some ways the least stereotypically feminine of women (in other ways the most), and the more traditional Melanie Wilkes is in many ways her foil. But Scarlett survives the war, several marriages, the birth of children, and even a miscarriage. Melanie, on the other hand, struggles with fragile health and a shy nature. Without Melanie Wilkes, Scarlett might simply be seen as harsh and "over the top", but beside Melanie, Scarlett presents a fresher, deeper female characterization; she lives a complicated life ring a difficult period of history.

3. Scarlett’s Hopes and defects

The other charm of Scarlett to me is that she is always full of hopes of tomorrow, life and the future. Some of her lines from Gone with the Wind, like "Fiddle-dee-dee!" "Tomorrow is another day," "Great balls of fire!" and "I'll never be hungry again!" have become well-known all around the world. She is charming and candid．The dream of tomorrow would call back the strength to live today, and the hope of future would help her to swallow all the bitterness of the present．The land is the only thing，which helps her to maintain her consciousness of tomorrow．From the beginning to the end，land Traa is always the core of Scralett’s life．Her constant care for Traa is never stopped because only from it her consciousness of tomorrow can be realized．Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything．For it’s the only thing in this world that lasts；it’s the only thing worth fighting for.

Scarlett is remained as one of the most controversial literature figures from the day the book published till now．Her bad deed，bad words and bad thoughts after the war-time appropriately reflect her natural character——mixture，she is a blending of the good and evil，of practical and ideal，of despair and hope，and of yesterday and tomorrow．She is by far the most developed character in “Gone with the Wind.” She stands out because she is strong and saves her family but is incredibly selfish and petty at the same time.

4. Conclusion

From the analysis of her character, she cannot be regarded as a perfect woman. By a rough glimpse, she seems to be a rude，ignorant，and hypocritical remaining of the old Southern aristocrats．Just like other southern people，she hates the war, disgusts the new established south government, deeply recalls the previous life，together with the careless revealing of her attitude towards slavery．They become the root where the criticism derives from．However, Scarlett is real and believable.

Forgetting the past doesn’t really mean that nothing has happened. Forgetting the past is to accumulate energy of the future．The purpose of Scarlett’s looking forward is to survive to fight, because that is the miracle literature has created to attract，to move，and to encourage the people wherever they are． The old are gone with the wind, while the new are gathering new strength to march on.

⑷ 英语论文《飘》中Scarlett的人物性格分析

里面的人物性格特征很明显 像思嘉 在那个年代她作为一个女性能为自己的土地争取到最大的利益 我很佩服她 瑞德的个性是个不适合在那个年代的 不过他可以为了自己的女儿和那些表面上虚伪的人称兄道弟

斯佳丽除了有智慧外还有责任心 负担着四五口人 她本质上是个小女孩即使在战后历经磨难瑞特把注意力转移到邦尼身上 她后来对钱十分渴求 心理学上称为追求安全感 战争之苦让她没有安全感 所以她总会做身处迷雾的梦 而最后她才发现瑞特是她梦中的谜底

失去了才懂得珍惜,我很可怜这个女人,却不能对他的一些做法苟同.在那个时代,他能够坚强的活下来 确实不易,然而爱情决不是一个人可以任意挥霍的资本! 当爱情就在你身边的时候,记得要认清 要珍惜 要呵护!

最后的结局让我很失望也感到失落,当失去的时候才知道谁才是自已真正爱的人,真爱往往就在身边,却失之交臂

in her eyes,nothing is more important than him .She could run through the war,
but she hasn't grown up by this.she didn't know what she want,and always run after the thing she couldn't get,and was never satisfied with her condition.
the result is terrible ,she lost what she had !

after all tomorrow is another day !

中文名：飘
英语名：Gone with the wind
法语名：Autant en emporte le vent
导演：Victor Fleming
原著：《飘》（玛格丽特·米切尔著）
出品：米高梅公司
主演：Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel等

1936年，美国女作家玛格丽特·米切尔的畅销小说《飘》问世了。好莱坞制片人大卫·O·谢尔兹尼克出五万美元买下了拍摄权，并先后动用十八位编剧将这部三卷集的小说改写成电影剧本。

《乱世佳人》（GONE WITH THE WIND）是好莱坞影史上最值得骄傲的一部旷世巨片，影片放映时间长达4小时，观者如潮。其魅力贯穿整个20世纪，因此有好莱坞“第一巨片”之称。影片当年耗资400多万美元，历时三年半完成，其间数换导演，银幕上出现了60多位主要演员和9000多名配角演员。在1939年的第12届奥斯卡奖中一举夺得八项金像奖，轰动美国影坛。这部耗资巨大，场景豪华，战争场面宏大逼真的历史巨片，以它令人称道的艺术成就成为美国电影史上一部经典作品，令人百看不厌。
1861年南北战争爆发的前夕，塔拉庄园的千金小姐郝思嘉爱上了另一庄园主的儿子艾希利，但艾希利却选择了表妹——温柔善良的韩媚兰为终身伴侣。郝思嘉出于妒恨，抢先嫁给了韩媚 兰的弟弟查尔斯。不久，美国南北战争爆发了。艾希利和查尔斯作 为征兵上了前线。查尔斯很快就在战争中死去了。郝思嘉成了寡妇， 但她内心却一直热恋着艾希利。

一天，在一次举行义卖的舞会上，郝思嘉和风度翩翩的商人白瑞德相识。白瑞德开始追求郝思嘉，但遭到她的拒绝。郝思嘉一心只想着去追求艾希利，结果也遭到拒绝。

在战争中，美国南方军遭到失败，亚特兰大城里挤满了伤兵。 郝思嘉和表妹韩媚兰自愿加入护士行列照顾伤兵。目睹战乱带来的惨状，任性的郝思嘉成熟了不少。这时，从前线传来消息，北方军快打过来了，不少人家惊惶地开始逃离家园。不巧韩媚兰要生孩子了，郝思嘉只好留下来照顾她。

在北方军大军压境之日，郝思嘉哀求白瑞德帮忙护送她和刚生 下孩子的韩媚兰回塔拉庄园。白瑞德告诉郝思嘉他不能目睹南方军 溃败而不去助一臂之力，他要参加南方军作战，他留下一把手枪并 和郝思嘉拥吻告别。郝思嘉只好独自勇敢地驾驶马车回到塔拉庄园， 这时家里已被北方军士兵抢先洗动一空，母亲在惊吓中死去。

不久，战争结束了。生活依然困苦。北方来的统治者要庄园主 缴纳重税，郝思嘉在绝望中去亚特兰大城找白瑞德借钱，但得知他 已被关进监狱。归来的途中，郝思嘉遇上了本来要迎娶她妹妹的暴 发户弗兰克，为了要重振破产的家业，她骗取弗兰克和自己结了婚。

郝思嘉在弗兰克经营的木材厂非法雇用囚犯，并和北方来的商人大做生意。此时，白瑞德因用钱贿赂而恢复了自由。两人偶然碰面，再次展开爱恨交织的关系。

弗兰克和艾希利因加入了反政府的秘密组织，在一次集会时遭 北方军包围，弗兰克中弹死亡，艾希利负伤逃亡，在白瑞德帮助下 回到韩媚兰身边。郝思嘉再次成为寡妇。此时，白瑞德前来向她求 婚，她终于与一直爱她的搞私运军火和粮食致富的白瑞德结了婚。 婚后，夫妻二人住在亚特兰大的豪华大宅。一年后，女儿邦妮出生， 白瑞德把全部感情投注到邦妮身上。郝思嘉偶然翻阅艾希利的照片 被白瑞德发现，终于导致了二人感情的破裂。其后，在艾希利的生日会前夕，郝思嘉与艾希利相见时热情的拥抱引起旁人非议，但韩媚兰不相信他们之间有暧昧关系。白瑞德可不这样想。

当郝思嘉告诉白瑞德她已经再次怀孕时，白瑞德怀疑地问那是谁的孩子？郝思嘉在羞怒之下欲打白瑞德，却不慎滚下楼梯引起流产。白瑞德感到内疚，决心同郝思嘉言归于好，不料就在他俩谈话时，小女儿邦妮意外坠马摔死了。与此同时不幸的事也在另一个家庭里发生，韩媚兰终因操劳过度卧病不起。临终前，她把自已的丈夫艾希利和儿子托付给郝思嘉，但要求她保守这个秘密，郝思嘉不顾一切扑向艾希利的怀中，紧紧拥抱住他，站在一旁的白瑞德无法再忍受下去，而转身离去。面对伤心欲绝毫无反应的艾希利，郝思嘉终于明白，她爱的艾希利其实是不存在的，她真正需要的是白瑞德。

当郝思嘉赶回家里告诉白瑞德，她是真正爱他的时候，白瑞德已不再相信她。他决心离开郝思嘉，返回老家去寻找美好的事物， 被遗弃的郝思嘉站在浓雾迷漫的院中，想起了父亲曾经对她说过的 一句话：“世界上唯有土地与明天同在。”她决定守在她的土地上 重新创造新的生活，她期盼着美好的明天的到来。

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永恒的战争与爱情的主题，永远的《乱世佳人》。

⑸ 《飘》英文读后感

《飘》的'故事发生在一八六一年美国南北战争前夕，刻画了那个时代的许多南方人的形象，占中心位置的斯佳丽、瑞德、艾希礼、梅兰妮等人是其中的典型代表。接下来我搜集了《飘》英文读后感3篇，仅供大家参考，希望帮助到大家。

篇一：《飘》英文读后感

Float is my favorite novel，the first time I read it was a summer vacation.

I did not finish it at a single sitting. However, the moment I finished it, near midnight in a sweltering August day, with my body poured with sweat, held my breath to turn the last page over, shut the book and heaved a sigh of relief, I just could not express how I felt. All were over: trouble was over; lives were over; hopes were over. I was shocked how such a small book could contain such a complicated story. Never were wars, diseases and starvation ever nakedly exposed to me like this. The turns in plots were surprising but natural.

It was a tragedy: Just as its name suggested, everything was gone with the wind, including families’ touch, friends’ support, sweethearts’ gaze and youth with vigour. The story reminds us of valuing all we were possessing. A life lasts for a short time and anything in it lasts shorter. We always lose something unconsciously and then feel regretful when we need them later.

Characters in the story were so vivid as if they had been going to jump out of the story, as if they had been existed in the real life at first.

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘this the only thing in this world that lasts, and don’t you be forgetting it’ this the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for——worth dying for.” Said Gerald, an Irish man who loved his soil more than his own life, let us know that life can be born out of land.

“But Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out? Mine wore out, against Ashley Wilkes and your insane obstinacy that makes you hold on like a bulldog to anything you think about.”

“Scarlett, I was never one to patient pick up broken fragment glue them together and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken——and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” Said Rett Butler, a man who love Scalett as much as a man can love a woman. Loving her for years before he finally got her, he loved her crazily but did not let her know it for fear of being hurt. But at last he still could not escape from hurts. “My dear, I don’t give a damn.” Look, he did not care about it at all. He was a man who disguised himself so much.

“I mustn’t bawl; I mustn’t beg. I mustn’t do anything risk his contempt. He must respect me even——even if he doesn’t love me.”

“I’ll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I’ll think some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”

Said Scalett O’hara, the most wonderful woman I’ve ever seen. She was hard and greedy and unscrupulous, a brave, frightened, bull-headed child. Though she only thought about how to attract man’s attention and did not do anything useful before the war, she did surprise me when I read about her doings after the war. At that time, her Tara was just reced to ashes. Everyone sketched out their hands and asked her for food. She bravely faced the reality and rebuilt Tara with her own hands. What a tough woman, I thought. Though those she loved were all gone, she was still full of hope. When Rett didn’t love her anymore and wanted to leave her, she said “I mustn’t bawl… even if he doesn’t love me.” A woman’s dignity could be seen from what she have said and done. That’s why I appreciate her.

This novel gave me too much to think about and I can not fully express myself in English. It is true that reading an origin is more vivid than the translated ones. However, my English level limits me to understand the origin well without the translated. But I will work hard in order to understand better.

The novel is my treasure, forever, because I find myself in Scarlett and find the world I live in inside the story.

That’s really an excellent novel, with an ending from which you can see hope rising from despair.

篇二：《飘》英文读后感

Scarlett , a very personality figures ，the two mans she love ,neither does she know about.To her, I was compelled to admire, admire her strong and brave, admire her to lay down in the environment, farm workers previously suffered ecation, admire her to disregard the community to create their own expression of the cause .She is in the whole story, all a person full of fighting will full of vitality . I appreciated most , it is this " Tomorrow is another day of hers. " . Promising forever, full of fighting will , will never give up, never desperate. I think I'm moved by her.So, whenever I meet difficulty, the mood is not good, I will tell oneself : " Tomorrow is another day. " 'Gone with the Wind' is absolutely a good book that is worth sampling repeatedly, the characters are graceful , the plot rises and falls, exciting boldly and unconstrainedly, though the subjective factor because of the author among them , the appraisal on U.S.A.'s Civil War is not objective and overall, but as to angle of literature, this one fine piece of writing generation definitely absolutely, worth visiting.

Despite I’ve not in my childhood yet, I still prefer reading fairy-tale stories. The tales, which accompany with me in my old days, often make me think of some precious experience and sensation which only belong to children. This summer I’ve review this kind of tale, which was published in 1940. It’s the world-famous fairy-tale by the French author, Antoine de St-Exupery, The Little Prince.

As many other fairy-tales, the outline of The Little Prince is not very complex. “I”, the narrator of the story, is a pilot whose plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara. In this occasion, the pilot makes the acquaintance of the little prince, a little boy from another planet, the Asteroid B612. The little prince has escaped from his tiny planet, because he has some quarrel with a rose, which grows on his planet. In that case he left his own planet and took an exploration at some neighbor asteroids.

On his all-alone journey, the little prince meets different kinds of people, which includes a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer. From these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd. Following the instruction of the geographer, he descends in the Sahara, on the earth.

篇三：《飘》英文读后感

Float is my favorite book.Like the beauty of si brave strong, like the rui especially of tactful is resolute, like the outside of the meilanrui soft inside just.

For the beauty of si this person thing, my felling is self-contradict, is to dislike the but again and have to respect and admire her.She is a person for having the character very much, loving two men in her whole life, but she didn't an is an understanding of.If she understands the rare gift of a, that she will not love him;If she understands the rui especially, that she will not lose him.She always is to be ungrateful to the rui especially of, she is just not to stop the rare gift of prince- a who make track for oneself's in a dream.She is just to think the characteristics that loves by herself that the rare gift of a have, she just does a gorgeous clothes, letting rare gift of a put on, being in love with him and then.But fact is, she love just that clothes.

For her, I am to have to admire of, admire her strong, admire her to the persist of land, admire her ability under the ecation that that in environment under let go of before be subjected to the farmland stem live, admiring the speech that she can neglect the society but founding own business.Her life contain a few souls, an is her mother.His mother is a madam with expensive very able and gentle and soft typical model, is the person who she respect and admire most .But, mother typhoid for saving the person but ising infect, die.Another, is her more than ten in the last years favourite of person- a rare gift.Her ability stands up in the adverse circumstances, have very greatly a part of reason is a rare gift of a .She the rare to a gift persists unusually.Still have a, is the meilanli .More than ten years that struggle together in, the meilanli has already become her life in the indispensability of a part.

I feel that the beauty of si is like a child, persisting to the thing that oneself want unusually, but to the thing that oneself own but disdain to on attend to.An at try very hard to make the oneself happy, a push the happiness to leave constantly again, push the lover toward abyss.

The beauty of si is loving is a rare gift of a , but,a rare gift but don't want her.Be like the rui to especially say of, the rare gift of a is a gentleman, just wasing born in an and he inharmonious ages.He still uses the rules of the game of the old world life, will bump only rejection.The beauty of si doeses not understand the a to hope the gift, so she loves him, think that exhausted whole wayses get him, but when she recognize pure he, she did not love him any further.

The beauty of si is a contradictory body, can have again who not is a contradictory body?She is in the life of road up all the way walk, be when she face the difficulty, she chooses the accolade, be when she face the responsibility, she chooses to carry, can be she face loving choice is, at first, he choose to hoodwink the oneself, being her to recognize finally pure, to face, but is already the hour already late.But she, at incapable is a dint, will tell the oneself, tomorrow is new day, everythings will like tomorrow, the Tomorrow is another day.She is all an in the whole story full of fire, be filled with the person of the will to fight.I enjoy most of, would be her this" Tomorrow is another day.".Was filled with the hope forever, be filled with the will to fight, can never give up, can never despair.This spirit, the most worthy of I study.So, whenever I meet the difficulty, mood not good, I will tell the oneself then:" Tomorrow is another day.".The another in book make the female that me admire very, would be the meilanli .She is an outside soft inside just of female, she almost owned the whole virtue that female can own.Positive if the rui especially says of, she is a that a handful of expensive madam that he saw win.She is strong, she is patriotic, she uses her heart love nearby all people.When her husband fight, she silent in the rear guard the hon, do the business of her what lies in one's power, be the north guy to beat in the city and she again soon about to deliver child, she still the town settle, being the next stem of the her body infirmity and nobodies to live soon didn't When the rice eat, she similar to beauty of si , let go of past ecation for be subjected to and sense of superiorities, trail weak of body next stem live, be she see the beauty of si kill a north guy, she did not be rattled, but help to bury the corpse, searching the money, wiping the blood stain, being the war finally end.

⑹ 《飘》的英文简介

Published in 1936, Gone with the Wind became an immediate best-seller, bringing first-time novelist Margaret Mitchell an overwhelming amount of critical and popular attention. Awarded the 1937 Pulitzer Prize, the novel was adapted as a film in 1939—an achievement that won ten Academy Awards. A historical romance set in northern Georgia ring the drama of the Civil War and Reconstruction years, Gone with the Wind traces the life of Scarlett O'Hara and her relationships with Rhett Butler, and Ashley and Melanie Wilkes. The novel addresses such themes as survival, romantic love, and the societal structuring of gender and class.

Early appraisals of the novel noted its memorable characters and historical accuracy as well as Mitchell's remarkable storytelling ability, though other reviews dismissed the novel as melodramatic and trite. Mitchell drew on her extensive knowledge of Civil War history in order to establish a believable setting for Gone with the Wind, but also spent considerable time fact-checking in the Atlanta Public Library. Biographers and critics have discovered striking similarities between real people in Mitchell's life and characters in the novel, though whether Mitchell intentionally modeled her characters after people she knew is unclear. What remains certain, however, is that her powerful, enring story of love and survival set in the pre- and postwar South has made Gone with the Wind one of the most popular novels in American history.