At B&N Reads Tara Sonin tagged her six literary antiheroines you’ll love to hate (and maybe love, too), including:
Scarlett O’Hara (Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell)
If you’ve seen the classic film adaptation of this novel, you already have an idea of what makes Scarlett an anti-heroine: she’s brash, pursues her dreams and desires in direct opposition to society’s rules, and definitely makes enemies along the way. Desperately in love with Ashley Wilkes at the start of the Civil War, Scarlett is devastated when Ashley marries a kind and simple girl, Melanie, instead. What ensues is a years-long journey that Scarlett believes will eventually lead her back to Ashley, but instead leads her to tragic ends.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
Gone With the Wind is among
four books that changed Jodi Picoult,
five books that changed Kimberley Freeman,
Becky Ferreira's seven best comeuppances in literature,
Emily Temple's ten greatest kisses in literature and
Suzi Quatro's six best books, and was a
book that made a difference to Pat Conroy. It is on
the Christian Science Monitor's list of the ten best novels of the U.S. Civil War.
--Marshal Zeringue
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