At the B&N Reads blog Brian Boone tagged five literary crushes from books he's read, including:
Scarlett O’Hara (Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell)
Now here is a woman who is self-reliant, can get things done, and doesn’t need a man. That’s the whole point of Gone With the Wind. She journeys from being a “silly” Southern belle who’s so spoiled that she can’t and won’t do anything for herself, and then the War of Northern Aggression breaks out, and before you know it, Scarlett is fighting off troops, defending her home and family, making awesome dresses out of what’s literally hanging in the window, and rising above it all to never go hungry again. You don’t want her, Rhett Butler? Well she doesn’t even need you.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
Gone With the Wind is among
Tara Sonin's six literary antiheroines you’ll love to hate (and maybe love, too),
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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