Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum

On this day in 1937, Margaret Mitchell wins the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "Gone with the Wind". Have you read the book? What did you think of
the inherent racism of the novel and the sexual tension throughout most of the story and the suggestion of marital rape? Should it have won a Pulitzer Prize in your opinion?

I have never read the novel but saw the movie. Taking that aside, even with racial over tones and suggestions of marital rape, I believe in freedom of speech. Writing should be about experiences, history, knowledge, truth even though we may be the one to decifer what we are reading is the truth. First, it is fiction - we must take in mind when judging its content. I am not sure all that goes into judging for a Pulitzer Prize. But it is a story that sold. People loved it. So I believe it was right to award it to her.

I believe that if it has happened then that is a history of some sort and it should be written about.

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