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对《飘》中斯佳丽的人物性格分析
对《飘》中斯佳丽的人物性格分析

毕业论文

题目: Tomorrow is Another Day

Character Analysis of Scarlett in

Gone with the Wind

明天是新的开始

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明天是新的开始

对《飘》中斯佳丽的人物性格分析

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Tomorrow is Another Day Character Analysis of Scarlett in Gone with the Wind

Hebei Normal University

of Science and Technology

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Acknowledgements

I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Shao Lijun, for her unflagging guidance and valuable advice, without which I would not have completed this paper. Her profound knowledge and noble character will exert a great influence on my future life and career.

I am also grateful to all the teachers who have taught me and offered me much help in the past four years.

My thankfulness also goes to those generous friends and classmates who have extended encouragement and assistance.

Finally, I want thank my parents and girlfriend for the love and support so faithfully.

摘要

《飘》是美国现代女作家玛格丽特.米歇尔于1936年发表的一部长篇通俗小说,也是其一生唯一的一部长篇小说,《飘》问世70多年来,被广泛流传并受到广泛的好评,不失为一部旷世经典之作。然而《飘》所走过的路程却并不是一帆风顺的,在许多批评家看来,《飘》不能被称为一部优雅的艺术之作,甚至不能进入美国文学的神圣殿堂。小说的女主人公斯佳丽被他们描绘成一个极度自私、爱慕虚荣、冷酷无情、为达目的不择手段的女性。但是,经过时间的洗礼,《飘》越来越闪耀出其旷世经典的光芒,更拥有了无数的支持者。

文章由引言、战前的斯佳丽、战时的斯佳丽、战后的斯佳丽、对比、结论五部分构成。引言简要介绍作者的生平、以及当时的女性主义。作者玛格丽特.米歇尔是一个具有女性主义意识的女作家。她在小说中含蓄的批判了美国内战时期的南方妇道观,通过委婉的语言更深刻彻底的揭示出南方妇道观的虚伪、愚昧和对妇女的压抑。战前、中、后的斯佳丽具体的阐述了主人公是怎样从战前一个自私、任性但又坚强、勇敢的南方贵族千金小姐转变为战时的懂得照顾别人、果敢但又有些残酷的生活上的勇士既而转变为战后的勤劳、有心计、有思想、有远见的南方新女性。对比部分主要是斯佳丽与媚兰与斯佳丽对比。斯佳丽与媚兰是小说中性格截然不同的两个女主人公,而不同的性格是她们的人生也大相径庭。思嘉果断、坚决的性格决定了她奋进的一生,媚兰的宽容、坚韧同样注定了她终生的勤苦。结论通过全篇总结得出,跟她的三个主要人生经历密不可分,通过对社会背景、人生经历和对比的分析,总结出斯佳丽一如既往的性格和由生活所迫改变了的性格并日益成熟,逐渐的成为有思想、有远见的南方新女性。

关键词:《飘》战争女性主义对比

Abstract

Gone with the Wind, written by Margaret Mitchell has been one of the bestsellers and popular with the reader ever since its publication in 1936. It is her first and only long novel. In 70 years since 1936, the novel was wide spread and well received. It was considered as a very classic work. But many opponents do not agree with that. In their eyes the novel will never have the chance to enter the scared palace of American literature and Scarlett O?Hara the protagonist in the novel is an extremely selfish, vain, and merciless woman who will not hesitate to resort to any means in order to reach her ends. But as time passed, the novel spread more and more widely, sweeps the world and has aroused interest of a large number of fascinated viewers. And the readers more and more favored the heroine Scarlett.

The body is made up of four chapters. Chapter One gives a brief introduction of Margaret Mitchell?s life, the traditional Southern Womanhood and the feminist. Margaret Mitchell is a woman writer. She has strong feminism. We can get it from the novel, especially from Scarlett. Chapter Two to Chapter Four described the life of Scarlett before war, in the war and after war. These three chapters analyze how Scarlett completes her transformation from 16 years old girl deeply influenced by traditional Southern Womanhood to a serious-minded and far-sighted woman. and compared Sarlett with Melanie,they are quite different girls, and those differences make their life very different, any way, attitude is everything. The novel named Gone with the Wind. And Melanie is the wind; she is traditional, graceful and tolerant. The old South has gone with the wind, and so Melanie. Scarlett was not, she is new, and she is decisive and firm. She is quite an opponent of the old South. New American comes, and so Scarlett.

The conclusion summarizes the whole thesis and reiterates the main viewpoint: her transformations connected closely with her three stages of life. She is increasingly maturing and in the end becomes a new Southern woman with strong feminism leanings. When we faced with difficulties we will call the memories of Scarlett and her words to the world “Tomorrow is another day”!

Key words: Gone with the Wind, War, Feminist leaning, Contrast

Contents

I Introduction (1)

1.1 About the Author (1)

1.2 About Feminism (2)

1.3 About the American Modernism (3)

1.4 About the American Civil War (3)

II The Period before the War (6)

2.1 About the Title (6)

2.2 The Plot Summary (6)

2.3 Scarlett in the Period before War (7)

2.3.1 Education of the Women in the South before War (7)

2.3.2 Scarlett the Rebellious Girl (9)

2.4 The Summary (10)

III The Period in the War (12)

3.1 The Plot Summary (12)

3.2 Scarlett?s Capability of Changing with Times (14)

3.3 Scarlett?s Persistent Pursuit of Better Life (15)

3.4 The Summary (16)

IV The Period after the War (17)

4.1 The Plot Summary (17)

4.2 Scarlett?s Persistent Pursuit of True Love (18)

4.3 The Contrast of Scarlett and Melanie (19)

V Conclusion (21)

Bibliography (23)

Chapter One Introduction

In 1936, Margaret Mitchell?s first and only novel Gone with the Wind was published. Soon Margaret became a superstar writer, she became more and more famous, and the novel gives her much reputation.

1.1 About the Author

Margaret Mitchell, an American woman writer in the South, was born on November 8, 1900 in Atlanta, Georgia, where she lived all her life. Her mother was a suffragist, father a prominent lawyer and president of the Atlanta Historical Society. Mitchell grew up listening to stories about old Atlanta and the battles the confederate Army had fought there during the American Civil War. At the age of fifteen she wrote in her journal: “If I were a boy, I would try for West Point, if I could make it, or well I?d be a prize fighter.” Mitchell graduated from the local Washington Seminary and started in 1918 to study medicine at Smith College. In her youth Mitchell adopted her mother?s feminist leanings which clashed with her father?s conservatism, but she lived fully the Jazz age and wrote about it in nonfiction, like in her article …Dancers Now Drown Out Even the Cowbell?in he Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine. When Mitchell?s mother died in 1919, she returned to home to keep house for her father and brother. In 1922 she married Berrien Kennard Upshaw. The disastrous marriage was climaxed by spousal rape and was annulled in 1924. Mitchell started her career as a journalist in 1922 under the name Peggy Mitchell, writing articles, interviews, sketches, and book reviews for the Atlanta Journal. Four years later she resigned after an ankle injury. Her second husband, John Robert Marsh, an advertising manager, encouraged Mitchell in her writing aspirations.

From 1926 to 1929 she wrote Gone with the Wind, the novel took her nearly ten years. She never thought that so many people favor it even now. The book broke sales records, the New Yorker praised it and the poet and critic John Crowe Ransom admired “the architectural persistence behind the big work”but criticized the book as overly Southern, particularly in its treatment of Reconstruction. Malcolm Cowley?s disdain in his review originated partly from the book?s popularity. John Peale Bishop dismissed the novel as merely “One more of those 1000 page novels, competent but neither very

good nor very sound.”But in these opponents?sounds, the book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Although Gone with the Wind brought Mitchell fame and a tremendous fortune, it seems to have brought little joy. Chased by the press and public, the author and her husband lived modestly and traveled rarely. Also questions about the book?s literary status and racism, historical view and depiction of the Klux Klan, which had many similarities with D.W. Griffith?s film The Birth of a Nation (1915), led to critical neglect that continued well in the 1960s. Griffith?s film was based on the Reverend Thomas Dixon?s racist play; the author was a great admirer of Mitchell and wanted to write a study of her novel. In Atlanta the Klan kept a high profile and had it national headquarters in the 1920s on the same street, where Mitchell lived.

During World War II, Mitchell was a volunteer selling war bonds and volunteer for the American Red Cross. She was named honorary citizen of Vimoutiers, France, in 1949, for helping the city obtain American aid after World War II.

Mitchell died in Atlanta on August 16, 1949. She was struck by a speeding car while crossing Peachtree Street.

1.2 About Feminism

Feminism is closely related to women?s struggle for social, political and economic equality of men and women. The Women?s Movement evolved out of social reform groups such as the Abolition of Slavery, the Social Purity and Temperance Movements. In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), the first great feminist treatise, Mary Wollstonecraft argues that women should not be excluded from the rights enjoyed by men and she is an early proponent of educational equality between men and women. Engels?The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884) provides the most comprehensive account of patriarchal history and economy. His explanation of the roots of women?s subjugation in the main institutions of class society is a giant step forward and lays the foundation for a scientific understanding of women?s plight.

But Mitchell wrote a distinctly feminist novel. She sounds the note early with the narrator?s comment that “at no time, before or since, has so low a premium been placed on feminine naturalness,”and she mercilessly exposes a southern patriarchy that requires that women be flatteringly subservient to males, no matter how much less intelligent and capable. But even more telling than its overtly repeated feminist message,

it is a novel dominated by strong women—Scarlett, Melanie, Ellen O?Hara (Scarlett?s mother), Mrs. Tarleton, Grandma Fontaine, Mrs. Meade, and Mammy. Mitchell takes pains to show the spine of a southern matriarchy secretly underlying a patriarchy.

Some critics have argued that Scarlett?s feminist success story is undercut by a sexual desire to be engulfed and dominated. Mitchell does problematize human sexuality. Ashley Wilkes?s own fear of being passionately released but then engulfed and dominated by Scarlett is a case in point. “You would want all of a man,” he laments. In Mitchell?s failure to bend sexual desire to some clinically theorized, balanced, emotionally healthy paradigm, she is a model.

1.3 About American Modernism

American modernism lasted from 1900 to about 1940 and postmodernism was in vogue from 1960s to 1980s. Gone with the Wind was written during 1920s to 1930s, and also Margaret Mitchell was a modernism writer. During the first decades of the 20th century modernism became an international tendency in art and literature. It began in Germany in the 1890s, and spread worldwide, and ended in the early 1940s. It included a wide range of artistic expressions such as symbolism, impressionism, imagism post-impressionism, expressionism and so on.

1.4 About the American Civil War

The American civil war was broke out in 1861 and last for five years. The Westward Movement, the two different economic systems of the North and the South and the upsurge of the workers?movement formed the main aspects of the situation before the Civil War. In the North the capitalist economy developed rapidly and industrial production advanced at an amazing speed. The output value of manufacture increased almost three times from 1840 to 1869. Coal and iron production were greatly increased. Transportation was also improved. Many canals were dug and thousands of miles of railway were built. All this stimulated the further development of industry. By 1860, American industry had ranked fourth in the world. But in the South things were quite different. The South had a large number of plantations on which Negro slaves were made to work. They grew cotton and tobacco, but there was little industry. So cotton and tobacco were exported as raw materials for they could not be processed there. Plantation owners kept a great number of slaves, and slave labor was totally depended

upon. The plantation owners of the South insisted that the slavery system should be kept because they considered slaves to constitute cheap labor, while the industrial capitalists of the North found free labor was more economical and therefore more profitable for their industry. This was the main cause of the conflict and also the main cause of the Civil War between the North and the South.

On April 19th, 1861, President Lincoln ordered the Federal Navy to blockade the Atlantic coast from South Carolina to Florida. When the war stared, the North enjoyed a decided advantage. Here has the contrast between the North and the South.

The North:

A mighty economy due to its ability of industrial production.

Twenty-three states remaining in the Union.

Having three-fourths of the entire territory of the country.

A large population of about 22 million people.

Two-thirds of the national wealth.

A convenient transportation system.

The South:

An agricultural economy, with backward industry.

Only eleven states.

9 million people including 3.8 million slaves.

Poor in finance.

An incomplete transportation system.

Therefore, the North was much stronger than the South. So at last, the North win. The Civil War was an epoch-making event in American history. It was a bourgeois revolution in nature, a continuation and expansion of the War of Independence. It was the broad masses who secured the victory with life and blood. The abolition of slavery and the emancipation of the Negroes enabled the country to develop more rapidly in every field and most Americans were glad to see that their country was no longer associated with slavery and the Union was held together. The Civil War also extended its far-reaching influence to the European revolutions.

It is true that the novel describes much about the war, but it?s aiming at letting us know that the disasters the war brings. Critics and historians regard the book as having a strong ideological commitment to the cause of the Confederacy and a romanticized view of the culture of the antebellum South. This is apparent from the book?s opening pages, which describe how Scarlett?s beaux, the Tarleton twins, have been expelled from

university and are accompanied home by their elder brothers out of a sense of honor: a metaphor for the South?s viewpoint on the statehood of Kansas. Nevertheless, the book includes a vivid description of the fall of Atlanta in 1864 and the devastation of war (some of it absent from the 1939 film), and shows a considerable amount of historical research. Mitchell?s sweeping narrative of war and loss helped the book win the Pulitzer Prize on May 3, 1937.

Chapter Two The Period before the War

Mitchell?s work relates the story of a rebellious Georgia Southern belle named Scarlett O?Hara and her experiences with friends, family, lovers, and enemies in the South during the antebellum period, the War of Northern Aggression, and the Reconstruction era.

2.1 About the Title

The title of Gone with the Wind is taken from the first line of the third stanza of the poem Non sum uails eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson: “I have forgotten much, Cynara! Gone with the wind.” The title phrase also appears in the novel: When Scarlett of French-Irish ancestry escapes the bombardment of Atlanta by Northern forces; she flees back to her family?s plantation, Tara. At one point, she wondered, “Was Tara still standing? Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia?”

The title is beautiful, gone with the wind, everything, like the old traditional South, like Melanie, like the slave system and Scarlett?s love to Ashley…

2.2 The Plot Summary

The novel opens at Tara, the O?Hara s? plantation in Georgia, with scarlet O?Hara flirting idly with Brent and Stuart Tarleton, twin brothers who live on a nearby plantation. Amidst the chatter, the pair tells Scarlett that Ashley Wilkes, the man Scarlett secretly loves, and his cousin Melanie Hamilton, a plain and gentle lady from Atlanta, are to be married. Shocked, Scarlett sits in silence until the two leave, without inviting them to dinner. Ignoring her mammy?s cautions against the cold, Scarlett goes to meet her father to confirm the news. After discovering the truth of the engagement, Scarlett is miserable, but realizes that Ashley has no idea that she?s in love with him. She plans to make Ashley jealous by surrounding herself with boys in love with her at the barbecue the next day at the Wilkes plantation of Twelve Oaks, and then afterwards admit to him that she prefers him above all others. She never thought of the war, even it would break out soon, even everyone in the South was talking about it included her father, what she cares is only Ashley, the man she loved. But things did not go according to plan, when she finds Ashley later, he tells her that though he lives her, he will still marry Melanie.

The innocent poor girl was really hurt. She slapped Ashley in his face. Moreover the unexpected man Rhett Butler, hidden behind a couch during the emotional scene, sees Scarlett throw a vase across the room in anger after Ashley leaves, and is impressed by her fire. But Scarlett still holds the idea that she herself is the true love of Ashley. To revenge Ashley, she decided to marry Charles Hamilton who she didn?t love at all, but Charles sister Melanie really appreciated that. So both couples married within two weeks, just at the beginning of her marriage, Scarlett regretted her decision and also the war broke out…

Before the war, Scarlett lived an elegant and leisure life. It?s just such kind of life made her selfish and vanity. For love she is stubborn and wayward. She had romantic emotion to love. But, at that time, ladies and gentlemen?s demeanor formed the atmosphere of the traditional society. She was born in a sumptuous manor Tara in Georgia South America. Her parents want to make her a lady, and gave her very traditional education. Scarlett didn?t like doing that, she pretend to be a lady in front of her parents, but she went her own way at other times. In her inner world, she wanted an unrestricted and free life. So, a very proud own, extremely conceited but very beautiful charming Scarlett jumped out in front of us. Scarlett was very proud that so many handsome young men surrounded her, and she was always the very center of them. But Ashley was the only young man that she admired, indulged and deeply loved. She was a proud girl, so proud that she believed deeply Ashley loved her even she got the news he will marry Melanie.

2.3 Scarlett in the Period before War

2.3.1 Education of the Women in the South before War

Scarlett O?Hara, a Southern girl before the Civil War, is no exception. As an ordinary girl growing up in Southern culture, Scarlett is undoubtedly deeply influenced by the prevailing ideas of what a Southern woman should do in a male-dominated world. Gradually she becomes a woman, a representative of Southern women. To the Southern woman, marriage is the destiny traditionally offered to her and she is constantly taught the art of catching a decent and wealthy husband as soon as possible. The unmarried woman suffers from the poor situation and tries every means to catch a husband. Simone Beauvoir say in The Second Sex, “ In France, as in America, mothers, older friends, and women?s magazines cynically teach young women the art of catching husbands, as a

flypaper catches flies. It is a kind of fishing or hunting that requires great skill.” Slowly Scarlett is brought up, not apparently different from other girls. Like other girls, she is extremely interested in love and marriage. Scarlett?s mother Ellen, by soft-voiced admonition, their common Mammy, constant carping and labor to inculcate in her the qualities that will make her truly desirable as a wife. She does not disappoint them in this aspect because, by the age of sixteen, she has learned to use the attributes of womanhood to advance predatory designs: the manipulation and seduction of men. Extremely selfish in love and marriage, “she was constitutionably unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself”(p.16). Bored by the Tarleton twins?talk of war, she moodily changes the subject to something far more interesting to her: the next day?s barbecue and hall at the Twelve Oaks. Deeply rooted in Western culture is the assumption that a woman?s energies are properly devoted to the chores of her family. In the South, little attention is paid to women?s education and educational opportunities for girls are more limited than those for boys. In the opening chapter of the novel, we got the information that Scarlett is not offered enough education and she has not opened a book since she left the Fayetteville Female Academy at the age of fifteen. However, the door of education is much wider for the boys. Stuart and Brent, the Tarleton twins, have been expelled from the University of Georgia, the fourth university that has thrown them out in two years, when they sit with Scarlett in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, the plantation of Scarlett?s father Gerald O?Hara. Unexpectedly, they are soon offered another chance to go on with their college education. All of a girl?s education, if there is any, is reduced to the arts and graces of being attractive to men. It is universally acknowledged that scarlet eventually becomes a belle in the neighboring counties after years of the conbined efforts of her mother and Mammy. She does not feel sorry for her lack of education. In fact to all men in the South, lack of education carries no shame at all, though they are given more chances to receive education. The things that matter to men include such things as rainsing good cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, and squiring ladies with elegance and carrying liquor like a gentleman. Brought up in such an environment, Scarlett is actually a representative of Southern women who are deeply influenced by Southern culture.

Scarlett shares dissemblance, an essential trait of Southern Womanhood, with the other girls. Thanks to her mother?s and Mammy?s continuous admonition and harping, she becomes a fairly beautiful, sweet and demure girl. Men have a common interest in appreciating the beauty, sweetness and demureness of a girl. Scarlett?s beauty is partially

inborn and partially acquired, but her sweetness and demureness are chiefly achieved by means of dissemblance. Scarlett understands of how to dissemble her own true feelings is even better than that of other girls. Scarlett?s “manners had been imposed upon her by her mother?s gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her Mammy, her eyes were her own” (p.5). Her mother Ellen does not realize that it is only a veneer, for Scarlett always shows her best face to her mother, concealing her escapades, curbing her temper and appearing as sweet as she can. She is utterly willing to pretend to be sweet and demure in order to succeed in catching her beloved Ashley as her husband.

2.3.2 Scarlett the Rebellious Girl

The woman chained to her household tasks has known as a girl that it is the first duty of a girl to get married. However from the outset, Scarlett challenges the conventions of her society. A tomboy who can ride horses, throw stones and climb trees as well as any make companion, by 1861 she has evolved into a typical young lady only under the insistent instruction of her mother Ellen and her Mammy. Scarlett seems femininity remains merely a superficial shell, embodying outward signs, but arising from no genuine inner grace. Most of her natural impulses are unladylike. She pretends to look sweet, charming and giddy, but she is in reality rebellious, self-willed and vain.

Scarlett is fond of love and marriage just like other girls and she can pretend to suppress her true feelings successfully. Actually Scarlett never ceases to seek to air her feelings openly, whatever the consequences or the chaos she may create. In the old South, arranged marriages are widespread. A girl is expected to find a marriageable man and she has to accept the husband chosen by her parents. Gerald O?Hara (father) insists that “the best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl”(p.39) and that she should marry one of the Tarleton twins. The clever and rebellious girl goes so far as to demand freedom in love and she is not satisfied with the future husband chosen by her father. When she comes back, she quickly makes full preparation for her great purpose of catching Ashley right on the following afternoon. A minute description of her feelings is provided to strengthen her longing for Ashley?s love. Unlike the common girls, she is determined to act on her own wishes. Thus, while her rivals retire according to the convention of the submissive female, she slips downstairs retire according to the convention of the submissive female, she slips downstairs to confront Ashley in the belief that he will not be able to resist her assault. Though her love is declined by Ashley, her efforts to obtain her true love do not wither away even in adversity. As we can see in

the later chapters, if she has no love for Ashley, she will have been discouraged in adversity and will not have lived through so many difficulties to obtain financial independence.

The very obvious is her disregard for religion, and indispensable element in Southerners? life. At prayer time in the evening before the ball, while all the other family members and the blacks are praying piously and asking Holy Mary to forgive their sins. Scarlett is so absent-minded that she neglects to make any responses, causing her mother to look at her reprovingly. Ever since childhood, prayer time is a moment for adoration of her mother Ellen, rather than Holy Mary. To the pious people, it is sacrilegious to show any indication of irreligion. Her heart goes up to God in sincere thankfulness only when a pathway for her has been opened to the arms of Ashley. In other circumstances, God is not important or sacred to her at all. As a matter of fact, her irreligion is more and more apparent in the following years of her life. In Chapter XXX, everything is unfavorable to her, because her mother is dead, her father in a state of dementia, and her two sisters ill. She is annoyed to see her sister Carreen always on her knees by her bed praying for a better life. Scarlett?s God is a bargaining God.

Compare with God, Scarlett trust more herself, in her eyes the God is an absentee God. “the Lord stopped thinking about us years ago, and don?t go telling me Mother is turning in her grave to hear me say it either” (p.542). As we can find in the later chapters, every time she does odious or unethical deeds in order to protect her own life, Tara, or the lives of those for whom she is responsible, Scarlett repeats to herself an important motto: “I?ll think about it tomorrow.” This motto becomes her survival mechanism and justifies every future decision she makes. Owing to her irreligion, it is not unusual for her not to bother about things that do not matter, such as the expectations and civilities of the Old South. But though she is so perseverance and so brave, at some time she also afraid of God.When her conscience torments her over the cold, bald way in which she has used Frank Kennedy, her second husband, who is later killed in an attack to revenge her, she sighs to herself, “Oh, if only God did not seem so furious and veng eful! If only the minutes did not go by so slowly and the house were not so still. If only she were not so alone” (p.804) When she confides her fear and remorse to Rhett Butler, “I?m afraid I?ll die and go to hell” (p.808)

2.4 The Summary

In the period before war, Scarlett was a little girl only worried about her love fairs, she had no ideas about the war,

“You know there isn?t going to be any war,” said Scarlett, bored. “It?s all just talk. Why, Ashley Wilkes and his father told Pa just last week that our commissioners in Washington would come to—to—an—amicable agreement with Mr. Lincoln about the Confederacy. And anyway, the Yankees are too scared of us to fight. There won?t be any war, and I?m tired of hearing about it.”(Margaret, 1973: 36 p.25)

As we can see, Scarlett didn?t believe there will going to be any war, she was really boring about it, what she reply to the twins who were excitedly talking about the war is only making a mouth of bored impatience. Being a charming young lady of the old South, Scarlett cares more about the coming barbecues party, how she looks, her new green flowered-muslin dress, and of course her deeply loved prince Ashley.

Of course the elegant and leisure life make her selfish and vanity. For love Scarlett is stubborn and wayward. She had a romantic emotion to love. But, at that time, ladies and gentlemen?s demeanor formed the atmosphere of the traditional society. Her parents want to make her a lady, a traditional one, but to Scarlett, it is really a disaster, in front of her parents, she could bear to pretend, but she went her own way at other times, that?s her, a real Scarlett, an very proud own, extremely conceited but very charming Scarlett. So no surprising that all the young men loves her, include Rhett Butler. In his eyes, Scarlett is not very beautiful, not very graceful, and even a little veining, but it?s just this woman attacked his heart, this strong will and cat like woman.

Chapter Three The Period in the War

3.1 The Plot Summary

The Civil War broke out, and also, the difficult life begins. Scarlett?s husband died soon after he has to join the war for suffering of fever, at the same time the south army was continually retreating in defeat. But these had not made Sarlett feel sad, the very thing that brought her great sadness was Ahsley also decided to join the war, what?s worse, at that time, both Scarlett and Melanie were pregnant. With out their husbands, the two young ladies have draped into a really difficult and dangerous situation. Scarlett is much more strong and healthy than Melanie. Scarlett gave birth to the baby smoothly, but Melanie was in a very dangerous situation, at this very moment of crisis Scarlett didn?t give up to help Melanie, for she had agreed to take care of Melanie when Ashley was out to war. Luckily Melanie out of danger soon, and also the two girls were became good friends. They decided facing with the difficulties together. They came back to Scarlett?s home, the big Tara. Rhett helped them all the way, but he decided to join the war as soon as they will arrive at Tara. Scarlett can not accept this,

Scarlett: Oh, yes, yes! I know we can get through, Rhett. I?m sure we can.

Rhett: Not we, my dear, you, I?m leaving you here.

Scarlett: You are what? Rhett, where are you going?

Rhe tt: I?m very serious, Scarlett. I?m going to join up with our brave lads in grey. Scarlett: But they are running away?

Rhett:Oh, no. They'll turn and make a last stand if know anything about them. And when they do, I'll be with them. I'm a little late but "better late than... Scarlett: Rhett, you must be joking!

Rhett: Selfish to the end, aren't you? Thinking only of your own precious hide with never

a thought for the noble cause.

Scarlett: Rhett! How could you do this to me? And why should you go now that, after it's all over, and I need you! Why? Why?

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Rhett: You, helpless? Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you... Now climb down here, I want to say goodbye.

Scarlett: No.

Rhett: Climb down!

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Scarlett: Let me alone.

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Scarlett: Oh, go on. I want you to go! I hope a cannon ball lands slap on you! I hope you're blown into a million pieces! I...

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