Yankee Analysis in Gone with the Wind

Yankee is the Southern term for the Union soldiers during the Civil War, and for Northerners in general.

Yankee Quotes in Gone with the Wind

The Gone with the Wind quotes below are all either spoken by Yankee or refer to Yankee. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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“I have seen many things that you all have not seen. The thousands of immigrants who’d be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, the foundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal mines—all the things we haven’t got. Why all we have is cotton and slaves and arrogance. They’d lick us in a month.”

Related Characters: Rhett Butler (speaker)

Page Number and Citation: 123

Explanation and Analysis:

There was something exciting about this town with its narrow muddy streets, lying among rolling red hills, something raw and crude that appealed to the rawness and crudeness underlying the fine veneer that Ellen and Mammy had given her. She suddenly felt that this was where she belonged, not in serene and quiet old cities, flat beside yellow waters.

Related Characters: Scarlett O’Hara , Mammy , Ellen O’Hara

Related Symbols: Atlanta, Tara

Page Number and Citation: 159

Explanation and Analysis:

Even now the Southern ranks might be falling like grain before a hailstorm, but the Cause for which they fought could never fall. They might be dying in thousands but, like the fruit of the dragon’s teeth, thousands of fresh men in gray and butternut with the Rebel yell on their lips would spring up from the earth and take their places. Where the men would come from, no one knew. They only knew, as surely as they knew there was a just and jealous God in heaven.

Page Number and Citation: 252

Explanation and Analysis:

Nothing her mother had taught her was of any value whatsoever now and Scarlett’s heart was sore and puzzled. It did not occur to her that Ellen had could not have foreseen the collapse of the civilization in which she raised her daughters, […] that Ellen looked down a vista of placid future years, all like the uneventful years of her own life, when she had taught her to be gentle and gracious, honorable and kind, modest and truthful.

Related Characters: Scarlett O’Hara , Ellen O’Hara

Page Number and Citation: 413

Explanation and Analysis:

No matter what sights they had seen, what menial tasks they had done and would have to do, they remained ladies and gentlemen, royalty in exile—bitter, aloof, incurious, kind to one another, diamond hard. […] The old days had gone but these people would go their ways as if the old days still existed, charming, leisurely, determined not to rush and scramble for pennies as the Yankees did, determined to part with none of the old ways.

[…] It took money to be a lady. She knew Ellen would have fainted had she ever heard such words from her daughter.

Related Characters: Scarlett O’Hara , Ellen O’Hara

Page Number and Citation: 569

Explanation and Analysis:

The former slaves were now the lords of creation and, with the aid of the Yankees, the lowest and most ignorant ones were on top. […] Many loyal field hands refused to avail themselves of the new freedom, but the hordes of “trashy free issue niggers,” who were causing most of the trouble, were drawn largely from the field-hand class.

Page Number and Citation: 611

Explanation and Analysis:

Already many other Southern states had illiterate negroes in high public office and legislatures dominated by negroes and Carpetbaggers. But Georgia, by its stubborn resistance, had so far escaped this final degradation. For the greater part of three years, the state’s capital had remained in the control of white men and Democrats.

Related Characters: Scarlett O’Hara , Governor Bullock

Page Number and Citation: 781

Explanation and Analysis:

The hate that enveloped the Bullock regime enveloped her too […] Scarlett had cast her lot with the enemy and, whatever her birth and family connections, she was now in the category of a turncoat, a nigger lover, a traitor, a Republican—and a Scallawag.

Related Characters: Scarlett O’Hara , Jonas Wilkerson , Hilton , Governor Bullock

Page Number and Citation: 812

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Yankee Term Timeline in Gone with the Wind

The timeline below shows where the term Yankee appears in Gone with the Wind. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

...then suggests they go to the Cade Calvert’s. Stuart, however, doesn’t want to see his Yankee stepmother; she still hasn’t gotten over the time Stuart shot her stepson Cade in the... (full context)

...South and took a liking to poker, racing, and politics. Like native Southerners, he hated Yankees and was avid about slavery and cotton. (full context)

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...the “fatherless brat” is dead, but Ellen interrupts him. Scarlett wonders if Jonas Wilkerson, a Yankee bachelor and the O’Haras’ plantation overseer, fathered Emmie Slattery’s baby. She’s often seen the two... (full context)

...Mammy says it’s because men don’t want girls who have more sense than they do. Yankee girls don’t have to act like fools to get married, but that’s only because they... (full context)

...idle in the shade. Suddenly, Gerald’s voice shouts over the crowd that compromise with the Yankees is impossible, since they insulted the South. All the men jump up, joining in that... (full context)

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...to meet wartime demands by bringing in Europeans to operate machinery. The streets bustle with Yankee prisoners, Confederate soldiers, and sick people. Peter points out the different factories and war offices... (full context)

...Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee’s victories make everyone hopeful: one more triumph and the Yankees will be on their knees. There are missing men and babies who will never know... (full context)

...coolly that the best way to prevent invasion would be to go help beat the Yankees in Virginia. She points out that her and Scarlett’s husbands weren’t afraid to go. Scarlett... (full context)

...make him a supporter of the Confederate Cause. Really, it’s all business. He sails into Yankee ports, buys goods, and resells them to the Confederate army. Aghast, Scarlett asks why he... (full context)

...brave gentleman for running the blockade. Scarlett repeats what Rhett said about doing business with Yankees and the South losing the war. Scarlett then says that she’s bored and will do... (full context)

...that he’s been questioning what he’s fighting for. The catch phrases of the South—Slavery, Damn Yankees, King Cotton—don’t resonate with him. He thinks only of Twelve Oaks and the beloved old... (full context)

...and likes to make himself look bad. He casually admits that he would blockade for Yankee women, and that he’d sell spoiled and compromised goods if money were involved. Scarlett knows... (full context)

...the paper that calls out Rhett Butler and those who profit from government contracts. The Yankees are sealing up the ports, so profiters are buying loads of goods and holding them... (full context)

...the Confederacy scores several victories, though they lose Stonewall Jackson and General T.R.R. Cobb. The Yankees are now hanging on by a thread as Robert E. Lee marches towards Pennsylvania. In... (full context)

...Phil Meade, who is 15, tries to comfort her, saying he’ll go kill all the Yankees. Mrs. Meade grabs his arm and cries “no!” Melanie throws Miss Pitty onto Scarlett’s shoulder... (full context)

...he’s lucky. His boots had been wearing out, but he took a pair from a Yankee scout he shot. The Fontaine boys argue over their tattered boots. Ashley leaves to bring... (full context)

...he lied all week, not wanting to scare Melanie, but the truth is that the Yankees have basically won. They are recruiting foreigners, and the South can’t fight the whole world. (full context)

January and February of 1864 are gloomy. The Yankees break through the Southern line and take control of Tennessee. However, the South is still... (full context)

...get divorced, and although her parents will disown her, she’ll marry him. Ashley said the Yankees had won, but Scarlett doesn’t believe him. She thinks everything will be alright somehow. (full context)

By May 1864, the Yankees under General Sherman are in Dalton, Georgia, 100 miles north-west of Atlanta preparing for an... (full context)

...is standing guard like an “iron rampart.” Mrs. Meade hopes her husband is right—if the Yankees invade Georgia, Phil will join the fight. Scarlett and Melanie think of Ashley while Rhett... (full context)

Dr. Meade says the numbers don’t matter; one Confederate is worth a dozen Yankees. Rhett asks if this is still the case when the Confederates have no shoes or... (full context)

Over the next few weeks, Johnston holds off the Yankees. The Yankees can’t assault the Confederates directly, and so they pull back and attack them... (full context)

...the Cause, but they are losing faith in General Johnston. Why didn’t he hold the Yankees instead of retreating? The Home Guard, safely in Atlanta, boasts that they could do a... (full context)

...Scarlett says she can take care of herself, and Rhett says that is what a Yankee would say. (full context)

Scarlett says the Yankees will never get to Atlanta. Rhett bets her they will; bonbons if she wins, a... (full context)

The Confederates hold the Yankees at Kennesaw Mountain, making people in Atlanta hopeful. Refugees and wounded soldiers crowd the city,... (full context)

General Hood assaults the Yankees at Peachtree Creek. Atlanta listens to the cannons. By late afternoon, Confederate soldiers stumble into... (full context)

...soldiers are cheerful, as they believe that Old that Old Joe will never let the Yankees take Atlanta. General Hood holds back the circling Yankees, but they keep coming back for... (full context)

When news comes that the Yankees and the Confederates are fighting along the southern train line, Scarlett cancels Wade’s trip. The... (full context)

...marching towards Jonesboro the next morning. The girls are scared, but he assures them the Yankees won’t win. But he notes he’ll be gone a while and wants to say goodbye. (full context)

By the end of July, the Yankees are nearly at Jonesboro. Gerald sends a letter reassuring Scarlett that the Yankees haven’t gotten... (full context)

...misses Tara, Rhett warns her that the typhoid fever there is more dangerous than the Yankees—the Yankees won’t rape her. It’s awful, Scarlett thinks, that Rhett knows what women are thinking... (full context)

...or printing newspapers. Although it felt like forever, the siege only lasted 30 days. The Yankees have moved south, turning towns into graveyards as they go. Scarlett is terrified when she... (full context)

...about the war anymore because they knew that if the Macon railroad is captured, the Yankees will get Atlanta. (full context)

...might be the signal that Atlanta has fallen. All Scarlett can think of is the Yankees invading Tara. Scarlett longs to be home and shushes Prissy when Prissy starts singing a... (full context)

...and says it isn’t bad. Scarlett doesn’t sympathize because she’s worried about Ellen and the Yankees. Scarlett would be happy if Melanie died. Ashamed of this thought, she prays that Melanie... (full context)

...says General Hood lost the fight. The Confederates are evacuating Atlanta, leaving it to the Yankees. The officer rides off. Scarlett wonders where to go to escape the Yankees, but she... (full context)

Scarlett runs down a street full of ambulances, her feet beating the rhythm “the Yankees are coming!” Then she sees women and children rushing down the street carrying crates of... (full context)

...Melanie won’t survive two days of this, and she can’t stop thinking of the approaching Yankees. What if Ashley is alive and hears that Scarlett let Melanie die? As Scarlett tends... (full context)

...Scarlett is angry: Prissy did nothing to help, and now she’s boasting. Scarlett thinks the Yankees can have all the enslaved persons. Scarlett leans back and asks some passing soldiers if... (full context)

...tells Prissy to look for him, but Prissy is scared to go downtown when the Yankees might be there. She doesn’t want to look for Rhett in a barroom or whorehouse.... (full context)

...grows brighter and brighter until a huge tongue of flame bursts above the trees. The Yankees must be burning the town. Scarlett runs upstairs to her room as explosions sound outside.... (full context)

...are deserters and soldiers everywhere between here and Tara, and Tara could be swarming with Yankees. Scarlett beats on his chest, saying she’ll kill him if he stops her from going... (full context)

...she hasn’t locked the door. Rhett laughs that Scarlett thinks she can lock out the Yankees and drives into downtown. Melanie moans as the wagon bounces and as flames shoot into... (full context)

...He says only Mammy and Dilcey are here; all the “trashy niggers” left with the Yankees. Scarlett asks if there’s anything to eat. Pork says the Yankees took everything, from the... (full context)

...bring two glasses of the whiskey with sugar and mint, but Pork shares that the Yankees smashed the glasses and took the sugar. Scarlett is ready to scream, but she mentions... (full context)

Scarlett asks Gerald why the Yankees didn’t burn Tara, unwilling to talk about Ellen. He responds the Yankees used the house... (full context)

...nice surgeon. The surgeon said Suellen and Carreen would recover but Ellen wouldn’t. Then, the Yankees all left. Gerald says he’s glad Scarlett’s home. Pork enters carrying two gourds filled with... (full context)

Scarlett says anyone at Tara who won’t work can join the Yankees. She asks Pork about the corn and cotton. He says the Yankees spoiled everything, except... (full context)

...but Scarlett doesn’t realize he’s constantly terrified. His life has vanished, and he thinks the Yankees are after him. Whenever Scarlett yells at him, he remembers the time she spanked him... (full context)

...to take pity on her. Suddenly, she hears hooves. She looks up and sees a Yankee cavalryman dismount, a long pistol on his hip. The awful things Yankees are rumored to... (full context)

...her—and suddenly, Scarlett doesn’t hate Melanie. She admires her for being willing to kill the Yankee too. Underneath Melanie’s gentleness, Scarlett sees courage. Carreen, Suellen, and Wade call out, scared. Melanie... (full context)

...she’ll clean up the blood. Melanie asks if it would be dishonest to search the Yankee’s backpack, and Scarlett says no, feeling jealous and in awe of Melanie. (full context)

Scarlett finds a wallet full of money in the Yankee’s pocket. She imagines all that she’ll buy with the money. Melanie finds a huge pile... (full context)

...collapses the arbor on top of where she buries the body. Afterwards, everyone assumes the Yankee’s horse is a stray. Surprisingly, Scarlett doesn’t feel haunted by the man’s ghost. She grins,... (full context)

...that Sherman captured it. They haven’t seen a newspaper in weeks, but rumor is the Yankees are resting their men in Atlanta. The Fontaines apologize for not visiting Tara sooner, but... (full context)

...subject from Ellen, Scarlett asks about the Calverts and the Tarletons. She learns that the Yankees didn’t raid the Tarletons’, but they did raid the Calverts’ and convinced all their enslaved... (full context)

...to talk about her since she knows she’ll cry. Scarlett tells the story of the Yankees making Tara their headquarters. The women say it’s the first time they’ve heard of a... (full context)

...rushes to the door. Sally Fontaine gallops up on a horse and shouts that the Yankees are coming. Gerald says the Yankees have already been here. Scarlett, though, knows she has... (full context)

...the house, Wade sobbing at her heels. She goes to her bureau and grabs the Yankee man’s wallet. Where should she hide it? If she hides it in her bodice, the... (full context)

...tells him she can’t carry him. She looks around the house and whispers goodbye. The Yankees will burn it all. Then she stops. She can’t leave Tara. She stays in the... (full context)

By now Sherman is burning and looting all of Georgia, but, for Scarlett, when the Yankees enter Tara, it’s a personal rather than national insult. She clutches Wade and the baby... (full context)

Scarlett hears the Yankees take the ducks. Then she hears squealing and a gunshot. Prissy must’ve abandoned the sow.... (full context)

Scarlett notices that one of the Yankees holds Ellen’s gold thimble. Once it had been on Ellen’s beautiful finger, and now it... (full context)

...She lays down the baby and runs into the kitchen, where she discovers that the Yankee who’d been upset about the sword threw lit branches on the floor. She rushes to... (full context)

...pulled convicts out of the prisons to join the war. Scarlett says that with the Yankees around, there are enough thieves. Scarlett is angry that Sherman went to Tennessee, leaving the... (full context)

Frank says the Yankee prisons are comfortable, unlike the Confederate prisons. Melanie jokes that he must be lying and... (full context)

...was lost. Now she doesn’t have to lie awake at night thinking she hears the Yankees coming back to burn Tara. The war has always seemed foolish to her; she’s never... (full context)

...Mrs. Calvert and their overseer, Hilton, who’s been acting like an equal ever since his Yankee accent helped save the house from being burned. Mrs. Calvert doesn’t know how to be... (full context)

...getting married but no one at Tara is invited. She is marrying Hilton, the Calverts’ Yankee overseer. Cade is dying and Mrs. Calvert is moving north. As Cathleen rides away, Scarlett... (full context)

Mammy boils blackberry roots for the soldiers’ indigestion, saying it wasn’t the Yankees who beat them but their bowels. She has the lice-ridden soldiers strip and wash with... (full context)

...kill a white man and not get hung. Will could vote if he took the Yankee oath, but he didn’t agree to Reconstruction. (full context)

...pay the taxes then take it. Wishing she could kill Jonas like she killed the Yankee, Scarlett screams at him to get out. She’s scared those “white trash nigger lovers” are... (full context)

...“black trash” out of her way and declares she doesn’t like this town full of Yankees and “free issue country niggers.” They come to the place Scarlett had sat to catch... (full context)

...news of old friends. Pitty tells how Mrs. Merriwether and Maybelle were selling pies to Yankees to make ends meet. Pitty understands, but she’d rather starve than deal with Yankees. (full context)

...a Black man and he might be hanged. They haven’t proved his guilt, but the Yankees are upset the Ku Klux Klan has been riding around dressed like ghosts and killing... (full context)

...is crowded with army tents, and the door of the firehouse is guarded by two Yankee sentries. Scarlett has killed a Yankee, so she isn’t afraid. She goes up to the... (full context)

...her in his will. To hide her excitement, Scarlett looks down. Rhett mentions that the Yankees think he has Confederate money, and Scarlett asks if it’s true. Trying hard to act... (full context)

...if he’ll give her the money. Rhett refuses; if he tries to withdraw money, the Yankees will seize it. Scarlett angrily jumps up. Rhett grabs her waist and covers her mouth... (full context)

...Tara, he fought in the cavalry and was wounded. While he was in the hospital, Yankee raiders came. Frank helped load army supplies on trains before the raiders could burn them.... (full context)

...Franks asks what Scarlett is doing downtown. Not thinking, she says she was at the Yankee headquarters. He’s shocked, so she lies that she was selling embroidery to the Yankees to... (full context)

...buffet tables, and a chandelier threw prisms of light. Now, the chandelier is dark; the Yankees smashed it. The walls are cracked and the tables are scratched. Instead of a sofa,... (full context)

...his news forces Scarlett to face the horrors of Reconstruction again. Tony shares that the Yankees are after him and says he’s only alive thanks to Ashley. When Scarlett asks what... (full context)

...Then Ashley told him to go. Tony plans to settle in Texas and hopes the Yankees won’t find him. He says goodbye, goes out into the rain, and mounts the horse... (full context)

...Frank doesn’t like her driving around alone with all the “free issue niggers” about. The Yankees will hang anyone who avenges a white woman for being raped or killed by a... (full context)

The Yankees hear that Tony left Miss Pitty’s, so they repeatedly search her house. Pitty didn’t know... (full context)

...that belongs to them. As they see it, only Black people have rights now. The Yankees stationed in Georgia regulate how white Southerners run their businesses, what songs they sing, and... (full context)

...“tragic necessity” to avenge these atrocities. Scarlett is scared of the “lawless negroes” and the Yankees. She kept thinking of what Tony Fontaine said: it can’t be tolerated! (full context)

...However, money and rights are in the “wrong” hands. The town bustles with a lascivious, Yankee energy, but underneath, Southerners live in fear. The Yankees make Atlanta their headquarters, and Carpetbaggers... (full context)

...have afforded the house herself and suspects that Rhett Butler bought it for her. The Yankees build fine homes beside the Southerners’ half-burned homes. They splurge on fine furniture and dine... (full context)

Scarlett is afraid Yankees will take everything she has. She doesn’t want to lose everything now when the mill... (full context)

...sawmill and leaves her house during her pregnancy. But even worse, she does business with Yankees and enjoys it. Scarlett hates the Yankees as much as everyone, but she wants to... (full context)

...wide the gap between North and South is. She is driving with Peter when three Yankee wives hail her. One says her nurse went back North because she couldn’t stand to... (full context)

...Scarlett says he’s like the Angel Gabriel, and then silence falls. Scarlett thinks how stupid Yankees are not to know that Black people need to be “coddled like children.” Yankees freed... (full context)

...“trash” free him. He says Pitty will be upset when he tells her Scarlett let Yankees insult him. Scarlett says she didn’t, but Peter argues that she has no place dealing... (full context)

...everything she does. Scarlett remembers privately that Melanie had even approved of her murdering the Yankee. Scarlett says that Melanie has no sense. If she did, says Rhett, she’d realize Scarlett... (full context)

...might be raped or robbed, and this would rile up the KKK and make the Yankees crack down on Atlanta. He tells Scarlett to keep a pistol with her offers to... (full context)

...this “unwomanly” habit by gargling cologne. When she lies awake at night afraid of the Yankees and missing Ashley, she feels she’ll die without whiskey. She misses Tara and decides to... (full context)

...story before they get home. Suellen’s idea, he continues, was to take advantage of the Yankee government’s offer to pay for damaged property of Union sympathizers. Suellen had learned from Mrs.... (full context)

...him. She says he can’t go to New York and work in a bank with Yankees—and she says she’ll accommodate his inexperience at the mill. Ashley says he doesn’t want her... (full context)

...work for Scarlett, he’ll be “lost forever.” Scarlett worries that by “lost” he means the Yankees are after him. Ashley smiles at her literalness and explains that if he goes to... (full context)

...young people away from traitorous actions. The traitors are the people who went to the Yankees or made money in dishonest ways. Rhett Butler is in the latter group. The worst... (full context)

...debate breaks out between the two clubs as to whether weeds should be removed from Yankee as well as Confederate graves. Melanie raises her soft voice and says they should put... (full context)

...Black man arrested for rape in his jail cell. The townspeople are pleased, but the Yankee soldiers are furious. They threaten to arrest every white man in town if the KKK... (full context)

...as Archie; Melanie sent him to drive Scarlett around and protect her from Blacks and Yankees. Scarlett doesn’t like this tobacco-chewing “desperado,” but she wants to get back to the mills... (full context)

...refused to ratify the amendment that would allow Black people to vote. Ashley says the Yankees will force it on them, and they might have a “dark legislature,” and a “darky... (full context)

...whether it would be best to fight or swallow their pride and submit to the Yankees. Grandpa Merriwether accuses him of disloyalty. Tension rises, and Archie’s hand goes to his gun.... (full context)

...at the idea of him working hard when she knows all he does is bribe Yankees. He laughs and says that meanwhile, she’s getting rich off convicts. Rhett says he went... (full context)

...Shantytown, the camp of outcast Blacks and low-class whites. Horrible crimes happen there, but the Yankees don’t prevent them. Scarlett sees no one today but smells campfires and dirty privies. (full context)

...she saw him building trenches during the siege, he’s been traveling. After the war, a Yankee colonel hired him to tend his horse. Sam says this colonel was too ignorant to... (full context)

Sam says he’d tried out freedom. The Yankee colonel took him North and paid him good wages, but New York and Boston were... (full context)

...saying he must escape to Tara because he’s wanted for killing a man. A drunk Yankee soldier had insulted him, so Sam strangled him. He’s been hiding out ever since. Scarlett... (full context)

...gone. Scarlett doesn’t understand what’s happening as Rhett and Melanie argue, but Rhett says the Yankees know what’s going on. Melanie finally shares that the men are meeting in the basement... (full context)

...Scarlett has probably killed Ashley and Frank. Archie tells them to keep sewing because the Yankees might be spying on them. They obey. Scarlett asks what’s happened to Ashley, and India... (full context)

...the KKK set out to kill her attackers. If what Rhett said was true, the Yankees know and have set a trap to catch the KKK. If Frank and Ashley aren’t... (full context)

...the store, and that he and his men will wait outside till they return. The Yankees watch the women through the window. Melanie picks up Les Miserables and reads aloud blandly.... (full context)

...the door and calls to Rhett to bring Ashley in. She acts confused when the Yankee says they’re under arrest. Scarlett realizes this is all rehearsed. Ashley and Rhett stumble inside,... (full context)

...tells Archie to put Ashley to bed, pretending that this happens all the time. The Yankee sergeant says that Ashley and Hugh are under arrest for killing a Black man. Rhett... (full context)

...list of the men who she was to say were at her house tonight. The Yankees will believe the sex workers because they won’t expect them to have any patriotism. (full context)

...Rhett Butler and Belle Watling, the two most despised people in town. They knew the Yankees are amused to see the arrogant Southerners humiliated like this. However, the Yankees feel bad... (full context)

Hatred of the Yankees is at a climax in Atlanta. For three years, Georgia had been “terrorized” by Reconstruction.... (full context)

...that’s what makes a hero. Scarlett says she’d marry Rhett even if he was a Yankee. (full context)

...invested his money in the United States government. Scarlett is shocked that Rhett would let Yankees handle his money. She suggests he buy property in downtown Atlanta, but he says that... (full context)

...North did to them, killing Charles and burning so many homes? Doesn’t Scarlett remember the Yankees robbing Tara? Melanie will never let her children forget what the Yankees did. Scarlett says... (full context)

...who profit off Black wage labor. She also befriends prestigious people from the North and Yankee schoolmarms who came South to educate poor Blacks. Nobody else accepts these people. Meanwhile, the... (full context)

...to enforced convict labor. Rhett notes that Scarlett is also happy because she killed the Yankee. Then he says, “poisonously sweet,” that the money has made Scarlett very happy. She tries... (full context)

...donating money to the Democratic party. Scarlett says he’s pouring money down a “rat-hole”; the Yankees are too established in Georgia to leave. Rhett says he doesn’t believe in politics, but... (full context)

...Carpetbaggers, Scallawags, and Republicans linger uneasily, then leave town. Scarlett is bewildered. She hates the Yankees and will never forget what they did to her, but in trying to survive she... (full context)

...how much she loved and needed Melanie. She thinks back to when she killed the Yankee and Melanie stood on the landing with Charles’s sword. At the time, Scarlett had laughed... (full context)

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

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