Southern economics was based on large agricultural plantations that depended on slaves as the workforces, and Lincoln's policies, which the South considered were against states' rights, had set the stage of destruction for the Southern elite. Thus, the South was willing to fight for their rights and their culture. Their pride ultimately became their downfall, the stand they took for basic principles went too far and far too long.
During the war, traits that Scarlett had been told to repress becomes her salvation, as her masculine qualities emerge. Early in the novel, she had said that she wished she was a man, and by the war's end, "her reactions were all masculine" (Mitchell pp). Faust notes that Mitchell "chooses to make the gradual emergence of her stereotypically masculine traits a significant aspect of Scarlett's growth and maturation" (Faust pp). Faust writes, "When Atlanta burns, Scarlett becomes first a retreating general and then, after she arrives at Tara, her family's patriarch and protector - even shooting a Yankee marauder in their defense" (Faust pp).
The female characters repress their own desires and aspirations, for "it was a man's world...the man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth lest she disturb him" (Mitchell pp).
Mitchell writes that the Old South, was a "happy feminine conspiracy" in which women flatter men in order to be well treated themselves (Mitchell pp). Faust notes that "Scarlett's desires, her natural tendencies towards androgyny, directly confront and challenge the deceptions that have rested at the heart of the civilization of the Old South " (Faust pp). Thus the Scarlett who emerges from the ashes of the war manages...
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The Randall novel also violated several caveats placed by the Mitchell estate upon authorized sequels: "that Scarlett never die, that miscegenation and homosexuality be avoided" and Randall further suggests that "Scarlett had a black ancestor, that Tara was really run by savvy slaves who knew how to manipulate their white masters and that Rhett pursued Scarlett only because she looked like her mulatto half-sister, Cynara, who was the true
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