On occasion, I talk about Gone with the Wind. Two points -- I didn't realize Scarlet O'Hara was going to Fayetteville Female Academy. (Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 4. The Gone with the Wind movie doesn't have Scarlet's schooling.) The Fayetteville Academy is Mitchell's fictional academy of Scarlet's schooling. The actual Fayetteville Academy is both boys and girls. I realized that female and male academies were allowed in the pre-Civil War South, but rare.
Second, William Faulker was surprised that the United Daughters of the Confederacy was going to be upset that the Gone with the Wind was too Northern!
[E]pilogue and epitaph, because apparently neither the U.D.C. ladies who instigated and bought the monument, nor the architect who designed it nor the masons who erected it had noticed that the marble eyes under the shading marble palm stared not toward the north and the enemy, but toward the south, toward (if anything) his own rear -- looking perhaps, the wits said (could say now, with the old war thirty-five years past and you could even joke about it -- except the women, the ladies, the unsurrendered, the irreconcilable, who even after another thirty-five years would still get up and stalk out of picture houses showing Gone with the Wind), for reinforcements; or perhaps not a combat soldier at all, but a provost marshal's man looking for deserters, or perhaps himself for a safe place to run to: because that old war was dead; the sons of those tottering old men in gray had already died in blue coats in Cuba, the macabre mementos and testimonials and shrines of the new war already usurping the earth ....
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