美国文学-《飘》人物分析

A simple analysis of the personality of ScarletteAfter reading the novel Gone With the Wind摘要：她，勇敢坚强豪放执着，精力充沛积极乐观。

是男人们钦慕的对象，也是女人们嫉妒的对象。

但是她也心狠毒辣，精于算计，与时代的道德观价值观格格不入。

对于爱情，她执着，对于生活，她乐观。

本文旨在浅析斯佳丽的人物个性。

Abstract:She is bold and brave and strong dedication, as well as energetic and optimistic. She is the one that men love, and she is also the one women envy of. But she is also cruel and merciless and skilled in calculating, so,she is out of the moral values of the times tune. For love, she attached, for life, she is optimistic. This article aims to personalize the characters of Scarlett.About the author and the background:Margaret Mitchell (1900 ~ 1949), American writer. She was born in the southern United States, Atlanta, Georgia. Her father is a lawyer, former President of the Atlanta Historical Society. Mitchell attended Washington Seminary in Massachusetts, Smith College. Since then, she has served as the local newspaper, "Atlanta Journal" reporter. Then in 1925 she married 约翰马尔什and then devoted herself to writing.From childhood onwards, we often hear people talk about the Civil War and the bored post-war reconstruction. This is accumulated a wealth of perceptual knowledge in her heart, which then becomes Gone with the Wind, and laid the foundation for the creation. Her childhood was in the southern city of Atlanta, the South Americancustoms monasteries, where the natural and social environment has become contaminated by the background of Mitchell Evans and the Source of Creation.Brief introduction of the character:Scarlette is one of the daughters of MR O’Hara __ the owner of the plantation Tara. Quite different from her other sisters, she is positive, strong, and both calculating, selfish and gainful. She is not as beautiful as we think, in fact, it is her energy and passion that makes her so attractive and charming. Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tar leton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting as tartling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin--that skin soprized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.( Margaret Mitchell,1978: 1)Although all the boys who see her on the ball will fall in love with her, Scarlett loves Ashley very much, and she believes that he also loves her__ until one day she is told that Ashley will marry his cousin Melanie. She does not believe it, and then at their engage ball, she expresses her feelings to Ashley. But she is refused, and almost at the same time, Rhett ButLer occurs. He also falls in love with this girl. But in order to revenge Ashley , she ignores Rhett and married Charles Hamilton a week after Ashley’s wedding. But weeks later, her husband dies on the battlefield, she becomes a widow with a son. Then her mother dies because of the war, and her best loved Tarais destroyed by the enemies, what’s more, her father goes mad because of her mother’s death. She is so disappointed and almost despair. All the burden comes to her__ a girl who is beyond 18 years old. She should take care of her father, her sisters and her son and also her Tara. At the same time, she must also take care of Melanie__ the one who she hates but now is about to give birth to a baby, but she must take careof her, just because she promised Ashley to do that. At the very point, Rhett occurs and he helps her to escape from the surrounded city. In order to rebuild her Tara, she robbed her sister’s lover__ Kennedy Suellan, but he dies in a special task. She becomes a widow again. Then she married Rhett ButLer just to have a comfortable life, but in her heart, she still loves Ashley. Finally, she finds that the one she really loves is Rhett but not Ashley. But it is too late, Rhett is too tired and upset because of her ignorance to him and their beautiful lovely daughter’s death.The analysis of her personality:Scarlette is always positive, strong, passionate and full of courage and energy, and at the same time, she is greedy, and vain she loves money and beautiful clothes and jewelry. But she is never relevant to brilliance, she is straightforward and rough, she never understand s Ashley’s beautiful and soulful poets. She is so strong that it seems there is nothing in the world can defeat her. Her mother dies and her father goes mad and her best loved Tara is destroyed in the war, all the burdens come toher__ because she was the biggest daughter in her family. She stands up quickly after being disappointed , and she does everything herself ,she goes to the field to pick cotton herself and she tears down the curtain and makes a dress herself. Then, after her hard working, she rebuilds her Tara.We have to acknowledge that Scarlette is a girl with unexpected passion and will. When she comes back to Tara after a very hard journey, everything is destroyed, she decides to rebuild her Tara, but she is so poor that she even doesn’t have a pair of decent shoes, ( Her hands were chilled and she paused to rub them together and to scuff her feet deeper into the strip of old quilting wrapped about them. The soles of her slippers were practically gone and were reinforced with pieces of carpet. The carpet kept her feet off the floor but did little to keep them warm.)( Margaret Mitchell,1978: 471)and there are always something or someone stop her."Miss Scarlett, I sure hate to bother you with more trouble when you've had your share butI've got to tell you. They say you ought to paid lots more taxes than you did.They're runnin' the assessment up on Tara sky high--higher than any in the County,I'll be bound." ( Margaret Mitchell,1978: 495) but she can always finds methods tosolve them one by one, she cut the curtain to make herself a dress, and then went to Atlanta to borrow money ___ although she has a bad plan, and her mother does not let her go all by herself, she make up her mind to go and she does it. In fact, it is the hardship that makes her so strong and so calculating and so gainful.Towards love, Scarlette is never afraid of expressing her love for Ashely, and she believes that Ashely also loves her ___ although Ashely gets married with Melanie. After being refused by Ashely, she marries to Charles, whom she does not love at all, just in order to revenge Ashely. After her husband died , she robs her sister’s lover Kennedy Suellan in order to save Tara. She marries Rhett ButLer just to have a comfortable life. But in her inner heart, nobody can instead of Asheyly, she is so persistent, passionate and never regret. But in fact, it is her endless love for Ashely that makes Rhett ButLer leave her alone, and she finally understands, but it is too late. Her love for Ashely is pure and selfish, she can do anything for him she can even give up her best loved Tara if he wants to; she can do the rough works but Ashely can not! At the sight of Ashley in rags, with an axe in his hand, her heart went out in a surge of love and of fury at fate. She could not bear to see him in tatters, working, her de bonaire immaculate Ashley. His hands were not made for work or his body for anything but broadcloth and fine linen. God intended him to sit in a great house, talking with pleasant people, playing the piano and writing things which sounded beautiful and made no sense whatsoever. (Margaret Mitchell, 1978:469).It is very hard to give her a fair and proper comment, because she has the different impression on different people. But she is the one that will remain in the heart of the people who have read the book or watch the film.Reference：[1]Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell[2]《美国文学》南开大学出版社2002社第三版。