Honors College Theses

Publication Date

4-10-2019

Major

English (B.A.)

Release Option

Open Access

Faculty Mentor

Dr. Joe Pellegrino

Abstract

Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind is usually considered a sympathetic portrayal of the suffering and deprivation endured by Southerners during the Civil War. I argue the opposite, that Mitchell is subverting the Southern Myth of the Lost Cause, exposing it as hollow and ultimately self-defeating.

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