The Lessons I Learned From Reading Gone With the Wind

Anita Durairaj
2 min readJun 20, 2022

Classic, historical, and absolutely racist

Photo by Khamkéo Vilaysing on Unsplash

My college roommate loved the classics. Gone With the Wind was one of her favorite books. The 1939 movie was also her favorite movie of all time.

I never got tired of hearing about the character Rhett Butler and how dashing and handsome the actor Clark Gable looked in his movie attire.

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