|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: cotton in the fields than she or Pork had estimated, probably four
bales, and soon the cabins would be full.
Scarlett had not intended to do any cotton picking herself, even
after Grandma Fontaine's tart remark. It was unthinkable that she,
an O'Hara lady, now the mistress of Tara, should work in the
fields. It put her on the same level with the snarly haired Mrs.
Slattery and Emmie. She had intended that the negroes should do
the field work, while she and the convalescent girls attended to
the house, but here she was confronted with a caste feeling even
stronger than her own. Pork, Mammy and Prissy set up outcries at
the idea of working in the fields. They reiterated that they were
Gone With the Wind |
