My First Time Watching Gone with the Wind

When i watched Gone with the Wind for the first time i really didnt know what to expect. I knew it was this big movie that everyone called a classic but i also knew it was really old and like four hours long so i know we couldnt watch the whole thing but i still thought it was gonna be boring or hard to follow. But honestly i got really into it. I thought it was gonna be all about the romance or the war but what really got me was how much it focused on the women especially the white women. Scarlett O’Hara, Melanie Wilkes and Aunt Pittypat all go through the same stuff but they act so different from each other. Watching how they handled things made me think a lot about how women’s roles were changing even when society was trying to keep them stuck in the same place.

Scarlett O’Hara was the one that stood out to me the most. At first i didn’t really like her because she was so selfish and spoiled and kinda mean. She only cared about herself and about Ashley Wilkes and how she looked. But when the war started and everything got messed up she changed a lot. She had to grow up and do stuff she never would of done before. She worked hard and didn’t care what people thought about her. She wasn’t always nice or even good but she was tough and didn’t give up. I actually respected her. She’s not perfect at all but she’s real and she did anything to get what she wanted  and that’s what made me like her the most.

Melanie Wilkes is totally different. She’s like the opposite of Scarlett. She’s nice and gentle and always thinking about other people. At first i thought she was kinda boring but after a while i realized she’s actually really strong too. She doesn’t fight or argue she just stays calm and caring even when everything is falling apart. She’s the kind of person that holds everyone together without even trying. I think that takes a different kind of strength and it showed me that being kind doesn’t mean you’re weak it can actually make you stronger.

Aunt Pittypat is like from a whole different world. She’s old fashioned and nervous and depends on everyone else to take care of her. When the war starts she totally freaks out and can’t handle it at all. She kinda represents how the old South couldn’t deal with change. Watching her made me realize how much everything changed for women during that time.

Even though Gone with the Wind doesn’t really show the truth about slavery and makes the Old South look way better than it was it still says something about people and survival. The women in it especially the white women had to figure out how to be strong when everything they knew was gone. Scarlett became hard and tough, Melanie stayed kind and calm, and Aunt Pittypat just couldn’t deal with it.

I didn’t think i would like this movie at all but i did like the first half since i didnt watch the last half    . It’s old and kinda flawed but it still made me think about what it means to stay strong when your world falls apart. I get now why people still talk about Gone with the Wind even after all these years.