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Gone With the Wind is a novel written by Margaret Mitchell which focuses on the life of a Southern belle during the
Civil War. The underlying focus in Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is that only those who are born survivors will really
prosper during times of true hardship.
A born survivor is one who will do anything to survive, at any cost. They will get down in the dirt and work like a dog
just for a day's meal; they will take something from someone else just so that they and their own can live. These people
may have social advantages or they may be poor farmers. The key element in their make-up is that they want to survive,
they need to survive. Not only do these people live, they prosper as well. They take whatever they can find and mold it
into something that will help them get ahead in life. These are the born survivors.
Those who are not born survivors are lacking that one key element; they don't have the need or the want to get down and
dirty and get the job done. Most of these people will either fall through the cracks or they will live out the rest of their
lives on a hand to mouth basis. They aren't able to look ahead, to plan, to scrimp and scavenge and do whatever it takes to
survive. Most of the Southern gentlemen in Gone With the Wind are not born survivors. "And raising good cotton, riding
well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one's liquor like a gentleman were the
things that mattered " (4).
One such gentleman is Ashley Wilkes. While Ashley is adept at the things that matter, he " was born of a line of men who
used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality " (26).
Ashley comes home from the war a changed person. He tries to help Scarlett and the others with the farm work, but he just
isn't able. " 'I wonder not only what will become of us at Tara but what will become of everybody in the South ' " (526).
" 'In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains
and courage come through and the one's who haven't are winnowed out ' " (527). Ashley realizes that he doesn't belong in
this new life, the new South. He knows that he is out of place and it scares him.
While Ashley Wilkes is scared of his new life, Scarlett O' Hara is not. " ' You, Scarlett are taking life by the horns and
twisting it to your will ' " (529). Early in the story Scarlett is portrayed as a pampered Southern belle. Her soft white
hands are soon calloused and freckled, though. Scarlett does everything when the war is over. Her mother is dead, so
Scarlett not only does the menial work, but she also supervises the household as well. " ' I've struggled for food and for
money and I've weeded and hoed and picked cotton and I've even plowed until I can't stand it another minute ' " (531).
Scarlett does stand it however, because she is a born survivor and she will stand anything to keep her land and her folks safe.
Later in the story, Scarlett is living in Atlanta. She buys two saw mills as a money making project, because she is still
needing to survive. Scarlett is willing to risk social standing to survive; because she is successful the matrons of society
look down on her. Rhett Butler tells Scarlett, " ' All you've done is be different from other women and you've made a little
success at it. As I've told you before, that is the unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned! Scarlett, the
mere fact that you've made a success of your mill is an insult to every man who hasn't succeeded ' " (678). Scarlett, a born
survivor, is succeeding where others are failing.
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