Gone With the Wind Characters

Stupid HeadOkay, so at the risk of sounding mean, we'd like to start with a, well, kind of mean-sounding question: Is Scarlett stupid? We ask because she seems to take a certain pride in how little...

Rhett the HeroRhett Butler is a giant coward.Now, some of you are probably saying, "Shmoop! You did not read the book closely enough! Rhett isn't a coward! He fights in the war and everything!"And...

Melanie = GoodMelanie is the moral center of Gone With the Wind. She is filled with love and loyalty and determination; she always does the right thing. She is "a very great lady" (63.9), as Rhett...

Scarlett is the main character in Gone With the Wind, and its natural to see parallels between her and the author, Margaret Mitchell. Like Scarlett, Mitchell broke down barriers for women in the pr...

There's not a lot to Mammy. She loves Scarlett and Ellen and the O'Hara clan and… yeah, she loves Scarlett and Ellen and the O'Hara clan. That's what she's about, pretty much. If she has any othe...

Gerald O'Hara is an Irish immigrant who makes his fortune in America through skill, luck, pig-headedness, and an ability to hold his drink while he's gambling. His determination and gumption is pas...

Belle Watling, the Atlanta town bad woman (a.k.a. prostitute), is treated in many ways as Scarlett's double. Like Scarlett, Belle is a successful businesswoman—and like Scarlett, her success is s...

Gone With the Wind is a sweeping historical novel, and to be sweeping you need to throw in lots of characters to be, er, swept up. We've tried to find most of them, but in the hustle and bustle of...