Gone with the Wind is a historical novel by Margaret Mitchell that tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, a young Southern woman, during the Civil War. It describes how people dealt with war during this time period. As illustrated by Gone with the Wind, civilians had to deal with the deaths of family members and the transformation of soldiers upon returning from war. Furthermore, civilians faced drastic changes in their way of life and the restrictions that came with it. In this way, Margaret Mitchell describes how the Civil War not only affected the soldiers who fought, but the entire Southern community, especially women. In her novel, Margaret Mitchell explains how women's responsibilities became more important when men went off to war, even though their rights did not evolve much, and how those women dealt with these changes. When the war begins, most of the men leave, except the children, the elderly and the sick. Women must therefore take control of their homes and continue the business of their husbands or fathers. In Gone with the Wind, the start of the war will mark a huge change in Scarlett's life. She leaves for Atlanta when her husband goes to war to visit Melanie and Aunt Pittypat. There she sees wounded soldiers and is asked to perform tasks that would never have occurred to her before. She has to treat the wounded in the soldiers' hospital and is disgusted by this volunteer work. The young woman's mother, Ellen O'Hara, dies soon after the war begins, and her father, Gerald, descends into depression and madness. Scarlett decides to return home to Tara when her family's property taxes are raised. She was used to a carefree life and finds herself in ch... middle of paper... er. They blame newly freed blacks for their misfortune and use the excuse that blacks pose a sexual threat to white women to create the Klu Klux Klan. The men have difficulty adapting, but slowly the South rebuilds itself despite the North's power over their lands and their lives. During the Civil War, civilians, although not directly exposed to the battlefield, experienced one of the harshest and harshest events in history. their life. In Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell describes how civilians fought their own war at home and how they dealt with this huge change in their lives. Through Scarlett, this story tells how civilians coped with the many deaths of their loved ones, the metamorphosis of soldiers upon their return and how they adapted to their new way of life, as well as how they coped with the loss of a firmly rooted culture..