分析美国文学作品中的人物性格或者作品特性或者作家特点

Scarlett In My Eyes

《Gone with the wind》is a novel about American civil war and postwar reconstruction. I have read it some times，that gives me different feelings. Especially, I am fond of the main role of Scarlett, I like her beauty、faith、elegance、adamancy. Moreover, her experience has some life lessons for me.

Although I love Scarlett，her life is destined to end in tragedy because of her character. She was born into a wealthy farmer's family and grew up rich, something of person who has everything she wants. What is more, so many boys like her because of her beauty and elegance. It shapes her self-willed and self-righteous character. SO Ashley doesn’t like her and marries with other girl who not outstanding compared with her in every way. That makes her mad and does the first wrong thing to marry to a man who is neither handsome nor good at running a company. The most important thing is she doesn’t love him. What is more，Her husband was dead in the war and she became a widow when she was very young.

The mentality of have a burning desire for what she can't have, go through her life. Because she doesn’t get Ashley, she helps him take care of his wife. And when his wife was dead, when he lose the backbone, like a child, she Inspires、helps him. Moreover, give him a job in her lumber yard, even though he manages it poorly. The same time, the thing that she helps and talks with Ashley is known by her husband Reid who love her and desperate to rescue her when she encounter difficulty. Everything is late, Reid has been completely disappointed in Scarlett, and decided to leave. She doesn’t treasure what they have, but go looking for what she doesn’t have, that cause her to lose everything. Maybe that's true of most people's lives. Her story gives me a great inspiration to cherish what I have now.

In addition to her character, the characteristics of The Times also contribute to her tragic life. During the American civil war, a woman can’t achieve anything in her career and can only take care of her family. Therefore, Scarlett has no other pursuit but love. She also doesn’t learn more cultural knowledge, making her relatively ignorant and unable to analyze and judge things calmly. So when she faces to problem, she can only use her beauty to attract men and achieve something. Even she uses dirty tactics to get her sister's fiancé for some money.

Even if it is a tragic ending, but Scarlett don’t completely give up to make efforts when the war and family changes make her face suffering, just to try to look for the way to solve all the difficulties, to marry a man who is considered a rebel in his day. Even break through the secular, manages own lumber yards, this spirit is worth learning.