Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

[nwhyte]

Second paragraph of third chapter:She [Scarlett’s mother, Ellen O’Hara] would have been a strikingly beautiful woman had there been any glow in her eyes, any responsive warmth in her smile or any spontaneity in her voice that fell with gentle melody on the ears of her family and her servants. She spoke in the soft slurring voice of the coastal

Comments

[resonant]

Thank you for the warning.

[san_valentine]

I think you're being a little unfair on the portrayal of slavery in the book. It is, after all, seen primarily from the perspective of Scarlett, who was raised from the privileged side of the system and benefitted from it