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1. Introduction Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind is considered to be one of the most popular novels and movies of all the time. It is the Pulitzer Prize winner of 1936. People continue to watch the adapted film and fantasize about this novel almost seventy years after it was written. Mitchells work relates the story of a rebellious Southern belle named Scarlett OHara and her experiences with friends, family, lovers, and enemies before, during, and after the Civil War. Through describing Scarletts life, Mitchell examined the effect of the war on the old order of the South, and the aftermath of the war on what was left of the southern planter class. The novel is set in North Georgia at the time of the American Civil War, from 1861 to 1865 and beyond when the Southern plantation owners fought the northern Yankees for the right to own slaves. They lost the war, suffered innumerable losses of life in the process, and the romantic plantation life depicted in the early chapters of the novel was utterly destroyed. During this period the characters in the novel had to undergo the transition from a carefree playful life of picnics and parties (underlain by the hard graft of their slaves) to one of hand-to-mouth living with hard physical labor, and finally, back to prosperity. This paper describes Margaret Mitchell’s environment of personal growth, life experience, marriage and other aspects of emotional description, and her creative process of this immortal work, as well as inspiration for writing and writing background, and combined with the characteristics of the heroine Scarlett’s personality as well as her view of love and marriage. It has a further explore the awaking of self-consciousness about marriage and spirit of seeking autonomous right about life. The author’s experience in emotion and thought established foundation for this works. Biography of Margaret Mitchell Margaret Mitchell was born on Nov. 8, 1900 in Atlanta to a family with ancestry not unlike the