Gone with the Wind
Who is Ellen O'Hara from Gone with the Wind and what is their importance?
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Ellen is the beloved matriarch of the O'Hara family. She is known as a good, caring, and selfless woman..... she is Scarlet's definition of what a woman should be. Ellen dies shortly after aiding a family during a typhoid outbreak, contracting and sucuumbing to the disease after nursing the Slatterys.
Gone with the Wind