Gone with the Wind was a novel published by Mitchell in 1936, which was regarded as one of the representative works of modern American literature. Story Introduction: The novel is set in the American South during the Civil War and tells the story of Scarlet O'Hara (S Carrie). Scarlet was the daughter of a wealthy manor owner. She was ostracized and discriminated against because of her family's prejudice and her own vanity. During the Civil War, she fled her family to the North and met Ashley Wilkes (Ashley Wilkes) and others. After the end of the Civil War, Scarlet returned to the South and continued to struggle with her past and present. Through Scarlet's life experience, the novel presents the history, culture, politics, and humanity of the American South. It also probes into the status of women, family and love, freedom and peace, and so on. Gone with the Wind was regarded as a literary work with strong emotional resonance and human thinking. It had won a wide range of readers and praise not only in the United States but also around the world.