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An Analysis of the novel Gone with the Wind 文学作品评论：《飘》 英语教育硕士 2006684 黄丽 Abstract: The novel Gone with the Wind is set during the times of the Civil War in Atlantic. This article gives a brief account of the novel and its author. Besides, the writer analyses the linguistic presentation of the novel according to the speech of the dramatis personae, Scarlett, from phonological features, punctuations, lexical features and syntactic features. Key words: novel, author, linguistic presentation  If historians were to look back over the 20th century and ask which single work of art proved to be its most popular and enduring, reaching the largest global audiences and achieving most purchase within world culture, there is probably only one choice: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell(1900-1949). Margaret Mitchell wrote only one novel, though she was a prolific reporter for the Atlanta Journal . She was born in a prominent Atlanta lawyer’s family. She spent much of her childhood listening to graphic accounts of Civil War battles, the burning of the city, the use of the family house as an army hospital, and the sufferings of the family and their friends during the postbellum Reconstruction period. Attending parades commemorating Atlanta’s Confederate dead, learning by heart Civil War songs and minute details of military skirmishes, battle wounds, and acts of heroism, the young Margaret was well primed to write a defensive, chauvinistic account of the South’s war. She began writing Gone with the Wind in 1926, the next year she married John Marsh. The whole writing last almost 10 years. This romantic picture of life in the South during the American Civil War became a best-seller almost immediately and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. It was made into a motion picture that, after its release in 1939, became one of the most popular and praised of all films. Unfortunately, in 1949, crossing a street to go to a theater, Margaret Mitchell was killed by a drunken d