Gone With the Wind Reflection Post

It said that we could do reflection posts on movies I hope that is okay.  I just feel like we never got a chance to talk about them in length.
Although immensely long Gone With The Wind, was very interesting.  Scarlet O'Hara I thought was an iconoclastic women during the time period.  Not only did she rebuild Terra from ruins after the Civil War, but she also operated a multitude of businesses.  It seemed weird for women to have that much power during that time.  
Scarlet and Jo (Little Women)  seem to be very much a like.  They both break the mold of the ideal women.  The cult of domesticity was meant to conform women and keep them working in the domestic sphere.  However Scarlet building up Terra and managing business did not conform to the cult of domesticity.  And in the first half of Little Women Jo did not conform to the structured ideals either.  Jo instead wanted to become a published writer.  
Gone With the Wind not only made Scarlet an iconoclast, but made Rhett a rebel who did not support the south in the Civil War.  It was weird that Rhett did not go and fight for the south, but it was meant to prove a point.  The point was that a man that can still feel masculine without fighting can handle a women that is feminine but does not work in the domestic sphere.  Both Rhett and Scarlet were iconoclastic in their roles which created a different way to live instead of the American norms.