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<BODY bgcolor="#ffffff"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"> <h1>Striking Chords and Touching Nerves: Myth and Gender in Gone With the Wind </h1> <font size="2"><p>article by Vicki Eaklor</font> <font size=3 face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"> <p><p>The seeming inability to understand Scarlett's character is at the heart of both the dynamics of <i>Gone With the Wind</i> and responses to it. Scarlett makes viewers uncomfortable because she exposes the underside of regional and gender myths while embodying basic American (male) values transformed (but not transplanted) during an era of drastic economic change. The central, consistent, and apparently disturbing, theme of Scarlett's ambiguous gender identity can be seen in three interrelated aspects of her life: her relation to gender roles and other people; her relation to economic ideals and realities; and her relation to the war. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the full article</a></font> </font> </body>