Discuss how the writing style is reflective of the themes in Mitchell's work.

Mitchell's primary stylistic technique is to use language
that depicts a great story.  Within this story lies the narrative of survival, love,
deception, and social along with personal cruelty.  Mitchell's style is indicative of
such a sweeping story.  For Mitchell, the story she writes has to be that of the old
South, the collision between modernity and its past caused by war, and the new condition
that post- Civil War life brings to the South.  Her language and use of vocabulary is as
sweeping, to indicate the nature of the intense emotions felt on political and personal
scales.  It is for this reason that her style is applicable to the war effort as well as
to the individuals who are immersed in it.  Her descriptions of life in the South are
applicable to the political and personal struggles in both realms.  Consider a line that
Rhett speaks to Scarlett:

You're so brutal to
those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a
whip.

This is an example of the type of style that
can be seen in both lights.  The obvious interpretation of this line is the depiction of
the love between Scarlett and Rhett.  Yet, in another way, this line can be seen as
indicative of the relationship that the South had to its ways and the self- destruction
that was intrinsic in such ways amidst the changing dynamic of America leading to the
Civil War.  This is an example of how Mitchell's style helps to bring out the themes in
her work.