Editing Gone with the Wind (novel) (section)

==Legacy==
One story of the legacy of ''Gone with the Wind'' is the persistence in the people's minds of its representation of the history of the [[Old South]] and how the American Civil War and Reconstruction changed it. The film adaptation of the novel "amplified this effect".<ref>Joel Williamson (1993), ''William Faulkner and Southern History'', Oxford University Press, p. 245. {{ISBN|0-19-507404-1}}</ref> The plantation legend was "burned" into the mind of the public.<ref>Flora, J.M., et al., ''The Companion to Southern Literature: themes, genres, places, people, movements and motifs'', p. 143.</ref> Moreover, her fictional account of the war and its aftermath has influenced how the world has viewed the city of Atlanta for successive generations.<ref>Dickey, J.W., ''A Tough Little Patch of History: Gone with the Wind and the politics of memory'', p. 40.</ref>

Some readers of the novel have seen the film first and read the novel afterward. One difference between the film and the novel is the staircase scene, in which Rhett carries Scarlett up the stairs. In the film, Scarlett weakly struggles and does not scream as Rhett starts up the stairs. In the novel, "he hurt her and she cried out, muffled, frightened."<ref name=autogenerated17>Part 5, chapter 54</ref><ref name=autogenerated105>Celia R. Daileader (2005), ''Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth: Inter-racial Couples from Shakespeare to Spike Lee'', Cambridge University Presses, pp. 168–169. {{ISBN|978-0-521-84878-7}}</ref>

Earlier in the novel, in an intended rape at Shantytown (Chapter 44), Scarlett is attacked by a black man who rips open her dress while a white man grabs hold of the horse's bridle. She is rescued by another black man, Big Sam.<ref name=autogenerated40>Entzminger, B., ''The Belle Gone Bad: white Southern women writers and the dark seductress'', p. 109.</ref> In the film, she is attacked by a white man while a black man grabs the horse's bridle.

The [[Library of Congress]] began a multiyear "Celebration of the Book" in July 2012 with an exhibition on ''Books That Shaped America'' and an initial list of 88 books by American authors that have influenced American lives. ''Gone with the Wind'' was included in the Library's list. Librarian of Congress, [[James H. Billington]] said:

<blockquote>This list is a starting point. It is not a register of the 'best' American books – although many of them fit that description. Rather, the list is intended to spark a national conversation on books written by Americans that have influenced our lives, whether they appear on this initial list or not.<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/bookfest/books-that-shaped-america/ Books That Shaped America] Retrieved July 5, 2012.</ref> </blockquote>

Among books on the list considered to be the [[Great American Novel]] were ''[[Moby-Dick]]'', ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'', ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'', ''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'', ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'', ''[[Invisible Man]]'', and ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]''.

The novel appeals worldwide due to its universal themes: war, love, death, racial conflict, class, gender, and generation, which speak especially to women.<ref>Perry, C., et al., ''The History of Southern Women's Literature'', pp. 266–267.</ref> In North Korea, readers relate to the novel's theme of survival, finding it to be "the most compelling message of the novel".<ref>[http://entertainment.time.com/2012/10/25/reading-gone-with-the-wind-in-pyongyang/ Reading ''Gone With the Wind'' in Pyongyang] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029155657/http://entertainment.time.com/2012/10/25/reading-gone-with-the-wind-in-pyongyang/ |date=October 29, 2012 }}, Tim Sullivan, (October 25, 2012) ''Time'' magazine. Retrieved November 4, 2012.</ref> Margaret Mitchell's personal collection of nearly 70 foreign language translations of her novel was given to the [[Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System|Atlanta Public Library]] after her death.<ref>{{cite book |author=Brown, E.F. |title=Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood |page=278|display-authors=etal}}</ref>

On August 16, 2012, the [[Archdiocese of Atlanta]] announced that it had been bequeathed a 50% stake in the trademarks and literary rights to ''Gone With the Wind'' from the estate of Margaret Mitchell's deceased nephew, [[Joseph Mitchell (Mitchell Estate director)|Joseph Mitchell]]. Margaret Mitchell had separated from the Catholic Church.<ref>[http://www.ajc.com/news/margaret-mitchells-nephew-leaves-1500982.html "Margaret Mitchell's Nephew Leaves Estate to Atlanta Archdiocese"], Shelia M. Poole, (August 16, 2012) ''[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]''. Retrieved August 17, 2012.</ref> However, one of Mitchell's biographers, Darden Asbury Pyron, stated that Margaret Mitchell had "an intense relationship" with her mother, who was a Roman Catholic.