This story happened during the American Civil War. The heroine Scarlett O 'Hara is the daughter of a wealthy and prestigious planter in Georgia, USA. With a prominent family background and a beautiful face, at first she was spoiled, selfish, spoiled by her parents and had many lovers.
She hates war and men talking about it. All she can think about is wearing beautiful clothes, going to the dance and flirting with boys who like her and Ashley. Ashley, the tall and handsome Ashley, Scarlett's dream lover when she was young, a man who Scarlett loved for more than ten years and always believed that the other party loved her.
Ashley married Melanie, and Scarlett admitted that she was rejected. In a rage, she married Melanie's brother Charlie. But she didn't love him at all, but her willfulness contributed to this marriage. Because of women's nature, Scarlett is deeply jealous of Melanie, despises this weak woman and wishes her to die quickly. After her husband died in battle, she didn't feel a trace of sadness. She is just sad. She has to wear ugly black mourning clothes instead of beautiful clothes. She is indifferent to her and Charlie's son Wade. She doesn't have too many moral constraints. Everything is self-centered, and everything else can be abandoned when necessary.
So, at first I hated Scarlett. Since when do I like her? I think Atlanta and Tara fell there one after another and fell in love with her, which was the beginning of the Civil War. War and gunfire, hunger and fatigue, let me see a dazzling Scarlett, but also let me see the other side of her character that was previously ignored: stubbornness and courage, intelligence and tenacity, independence and strength.
What a brave girl she is. When Atlanta fell and everyone fled for their lives, she stayed with Melanie who was about to give birth, and did not leave her in the hospital to flee for her life alone, because she promised Ashley to take care of Melanie. On the way back from Atlanta to Tara, there were wars and gunfire everywhere. She drove the carriage alone, clutching the reins with blistered hands. Behind her, there is a burden that a young shoulder can't lift-Melanie, who just gave birth to a dying baby, her own hungry boy, and the frightened black servant.
They are weak, upset and frightened, and they are all looking to her for strength and guidance. At that time, Scarlett was just a girl who longed to return to the gentle arms of Tara and her mother Ellen. Under the heavy burden and the threat of war, Scarlett didn't fall. She straightened her back. Like a hero, she drove the carriage through the bullets and brought them back to Tara from Atlanta.
When I saw this passage, Melanie lying in the carriage asked Scarlett, "Dear-are we home yet?" Scarlett burst into tears when she heard the word home, because she knew that they had no home and they were trapped in a desolate world. But she replied as gently as possible in a tight voice: "Not yet? But it will come soon, and we will have milk and your baby to drink soon. " I deeply love this brave and kind girl.
If mother Ellen gave this girl, who was also frightened by the war, courage to drive her carriage through the war and death to Tara, then when Scarlett returned to Tara and learned that her mother had died and her father was insane, she really understood that the carefree and spoiled days were gone forever. She always wanted to go back to Tara, to her mother, and to unload the burden that should not be borne by her young shoulders. But now she understands that the burden on her will never be lightened, and she will always carry it forward.
She has nothing but the red land behind her. It is the land that her ancestors have guarded all her life, and she would rather fight to the last breath than leave her hometown, where she lived, cultivated, fell in love and had children all her life. Scarlett loves this land deeply. She must fight for Tara and her family!
When the war rages and everything burns to ashes, poverty and hunger always afflict Scarlett. All this did not make Scarlett yield and retreat. She thought that since there was no turning back, she would go on. Unlike other women, she does not look back, looking back at the past years and people who have passed away, arousing sad memories in vain, and taking these memories as great pride to endure the poverty in front of her. She will never look back.
She gave up the dignity of a gentleman. In order to support her family, she learned to farm, plow, raise pigs and pick cotton in the sun, so that her delicate white hands are now bloodshot. She acquiesced in her servant Pork stealing chickens from other families, even though she knew that this would never happen if her mother were still alive. When she was young, Scarlett always wanted to be noble, educated, kind and loved like her mother, but in the face of hunger, her first thought was how to get her family out of hunger, not those words of benevolence, righteousness and morality. To this end, she also killed a Yankee, because the man wanted to plunder her property.
I think I will always remember wearing a new dress made of curtain cloth to Scarlett in Atlanta.
Scarlett couldn't afford to pay taxes at that time, and she didn't give in. She had no decent clothes to wear, so she tore off the moss-green curtain cloth, made a decent new dress and went to Atlanta to borrow money like a kind queen. She tried to get rich Rhett to marry her. After the disguise was mercilessly torn off by Rhett, she was not discouraged, but looked for another way out, a way to save her family from hunger and ensure Tara's safety.
Scarlett is a person who dares to face reality. Facing hunger and fatigue, fear and tension, war and terror, she didn't escape at all. She faced the difficulties bravely and acted like a queen. She has been fighting bravely for herself, her family and Tara.
The beautiful girl who was once naive and full of hot pillow has disappeared without a trace, replaced by Scarlett, who is more independent, stronger and braver, like a flame.
I love this independent and brave Scarlett like a flame.
Scarlett is a person who uses marriage as a tool to realize her wishes step by step. She has been married three times. The first time I was with Charlie, it was because of the impulsiveness and willfulness of youth and revenge on Ashley who refused her. Then Charlie died on the battlefield. The second time I was with Kennedy, because she couldn't afford to pay taxes, and Kennedy happened to have some money at that time, so she didn't hesitate to snatch Kennedy from her sister Suellen with lies and opened a timber factory with his help. Later, Kennedy died because of her propaganda.
The first two times, there was no love in her marriage, only use. And the third time, the marriage with Rhett made her really understand what love is.
She always thought she loved Ashley, and because Ashley blocked her view, she always ignored Rhett's deep love for her. It was not until Melanie said "Be kind to Rhett" before she died that she really understood that she loved Rhett. She loves him, loves this rascal, loves this rascal, does not hesitate, and doesn't care about her reputation.
Rhett, the man who has been standing silently behind Scarlett, loves her, understands him and is always ready to help her.
Ashley, on the other hand, really understands that her affection for him is just a child's stubbornness about a toy that she can't get. Because it has never been available, I am eagerly looking forward to it. Now she has clearly seen that he is just a naive fantasy of her own, and once she gets it, there is nothing valuable.
But Scarlett understood it too late.
Rhett's love for her has been exhausted in repeated disappointments and pains. He loves a woman like a man, and it took him many years to get her. Rhett knew when he proposed to Scarlett that she didn't love him, but he naively thought that he could always make her fall in love with him. He tried his best to take care of her, pamper her and give her anything she wanted. But Ashley was always there, always in Scarlett's heart. She doesn't want Rhett's love.
Seeing this, I finally know why Rhett likes Bonnie so much, but tears fall down. I really feel sorry for Rhett. Scarlett didn't want his love, so he had to give it all to their children, girls like Scarlett.
Finally, Rhett calmly and wearily said to Scarlett who wanted to start over:
"Scarlett, I have never been that kind of person. I can't patiently pick up a piece of debris, put it together, and then tell myself that this patched thing is exactly the same as the new one. The broken thing is broken-I'd rather remember its best side than repair it. Then look at those broken places all my life. "
What is broken is broken, and no matter how much it is mended, it can't be restored to its original appearance. Rhett's love for Scarlett was mixed with too much forbearance, disappointment, quarrel and pain ... until the end, it was beyond recognition.
Maybe in reality, so do we. I always thought I loved Ashley, but I didn't know I loved Rhett until the end. Because I have been madly in love with the phantom in my heart and hurt the people who really love me in my life. How silly, but how real.
Scarlett is not the only one who can't tell right from wrong in love.
Keep your eyes open and cherish the people around you who are really good to you. Don't take these beautiful things for granted. Don't wait until you lose them to wake up, it's too late.