A study of Scarletts

Description:

Bauer provides a more sympathetic reading of Scarlett as a young woman who refuses to accept social limitations based on gender and seeks to be loved for who she is, Bauer examines Scarlett-like characters in other novels. These intertextual readings serve both to develop further a less critical, more compassionate reading of Scarlett O'Hara and to expose societal prejudices against strong women.

subjects: Women in literature,  Social role in literature,  Man-woman relationships in literature,  Female friendship in literature,  Friendship in literature,  Authors, american,  Scarlett O'Hara (Fictitious character)

People: Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949),  Charles Frazier (1950-),  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873-1945),  Toni Morrison (1931-2019),  Kat Meads (1951-),  Scarlett O'Hara (Fictitious character)