Gone With the Wind读后感

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Gone With the Wind

Gone with the Wind are both a romance and a meditation on the changes that swept the American South in the 1860s The story happens during Civil War.

Scarlet, the daughter of a farmer was beautiful and attractive. Before the war, her life was placid. But when the war broke out, her life changed totally. Her husband died because of disease, and she became a widow. However, she was different from other women. She could not bear wearing dark clothes and staying at home all the time. Just at that time, Captain Butler came into her life. They were very similar, both treacherous and avaricious, so they soon became friends. Scarlet had to be feed the whole family, and this made her marble. Later on, Scarlet had her own factory, and was gradually disliked by many people because of her arrogance.

Captain Butler was very wealthy and charming as well. He loved Scarlet, and before long, they got married. On the other hand, Scarlet had been loved a man called Ashley for a long time, but Ashley had a wife, Melanie, who was respected by everyone, except Scarlet. Even after she got married with Butler, she still wanted Ashley.

Some time later, Scarlet and Captain Butler had a daughter. This made Butler become a kind father. But their daughter died. From then on, Scarlet and Butler quarreled much oftener than before. Otherwise, when

Scarlet met Ashley on his birthday at the factory, people saw them hugging, and this made Butler fly into a rage. Melanie fell sick and she was about to die. Scarlet talked with her beside her bed, and she suddenly realized that Melanie was her only female friend, and she loved her very much. She also realized she didn’t really love Ashley. But everything was too late. When she came back home, Captain Butler was leaving. Her tears couldn’t do any help, and she could only watch him leave.

Analysis of Major Characters Scarlett

O’Hara (In-Depth Analysis) The novels protagonist. Scarlett is a pretty, coquettish Southern belle who grows up on the Georgia plantation of Tara in the years before the Civil War. Selfish, shrewd, and vain, Scarlett inherits the strong will of her father, Gerald, but also desires to please her well-bred, genteel mother, Ellen. When hardships plague Scarlett, she shoulders the troubles of her family and friends. Scarlett’s simultaneous desire for the Southern gentleman Ashley and the opportunistic New Southerner Rhett Butler parallels the South’s struggle to cling to tradition and still survive in the new era.

Rhett Butler (In-Depth Analysis) Scarlett’s third husband, he is a dashing dangerous adventurer and scoundrel. Expelled from West Point and disowned by his prominent Charleston family, Rhett becomes an opportunistic blockade-runner during the war,

emerging as one of the only rich Southern men in Atlanta after the war. Rhett proves himself a loving father and, at times, a caring husband. Though he loves Scarlett, his pride prevents him from showing her his love, and it even leads him to brutality. Candid, humorous, and contemptuous of silly social codes, Rhett exposes hypocrisy wherever he goes. He represents postwar society, a pragmatic, fast-paced world in which the strong thrive and the weak perish.

Ashley Wilkes (In-Depth Analysis) The handsome, chivalrous, and honorable heir to the Twelve Oaks plantation near Tara. Ashley bewitches Scarlett through most of the novel. After the war, Ashley becomes resigned and sad, and he regrets not marrying Scarlett. Committed to his honor and Southern tradition, he cannot adjust to the postwar South. Ashley represents the values and nostalgia of the Old South.

Melanie Hamilton Wilkes (In-Depth Analysis) The frail, good-hearted wife of Ashley Wilkes. Melanie provokes Scarlett’s jealous hatred throughout most of the novel. After two women suffer together through the Civil War, however, a strong bond forms them. Eventually, Scarlett understands that Melanie’s unflagging love and support has been a source of strength for her. Like Ashley, Melanie embodies the values of the Old South, but in

contrast to Ashley’s futile dreaming, Melanie faces the world with quiet but powerful inner strength.

Ellen O’Hara (In-Depth Analysis) Scarlett’s mother is born in a descendent of the aristocratic Robillard family. Ellen marries Gerald and devotes herself to running Tara after her father forbids her love affair with Philippe, her cousin. Refined and compassionate, strong and firm, Ellen serves as an impossible ideal for the willful Scarlett. Even after Ellen’s death, Scarlett struggles with the competing desires to please her mother and please herself.

Scarlett manages to overcome adversity through brute strength of will. She emerges as a feminist heroine because she relies on herself alone and survives the Civil War and Reconstruction unaided. She rebuilds Tara after the Yankee invasion and works her way up in the new political order, taking care of helpless family members and friends along the way. Mitchell suggests that overcoming adversity sometimes requires ruthlessness. Scarlett becomes a cruel businesswoman and a domineering wife, willingly coarsening herself in order to succeed. Other characters succeed by exercising willpower, among them Old Miss Fontaine, who watched Indians scalp her entire family as a child and then gritted her teeth and worked to raise her own family and run a plantation. Rhett Butler also wills his way to success, although he covers up his

bullheaded willpower with a layer of ease and carelessness.

This story figured a lady who was fortitudinous. But the society made her play hard, and her personality distorted. She only cared for money, and she didn't care about other people's feeling. When she finally regretted, Butler’s patience had been replenished.

In addition, Scarlet had a tag,“ Tomorrow is another day.”This showed that she was optimistic. When Butler left her, she also said, “Tomorrow is another day.” This sentence gave her courage, and made her feel much better. Maybe we should learn this point from her. No matter how difficult our life is, just faces it optimistically, and tomorrow would be another day.

When I read out the book, my heart was full of sorrow, Scarlett was a plain girl, but what she did was not plain .She didn’t stay silent in the war time, her own world was changed by herself struggle. In fact ,many people lost what they have like Scarlett ,but they all gave up to strive for the happiness that essentially belonged to them .Scarlett have the braveness to change the old rule .What she finally have is the consequence of her own effort .Another character that I love most is Melanie ,she is so kind-hearted ,she always stand in the side of others ,in my heart ,she is the embodiment of kindness.

At last I want say maybe god wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we

will know how to be grateful.


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Gone With The Wind

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“ After all , tomorrow is another day . ” is her optimistic attitude towards life , she has used almost half of her life to love a wrong person . she is so brave and stubborn that she is unable to understand true love and true friendship until she looses them . But , as what she says , she has her outstanding talent to deal with life and pursuits what she has lost .

Yes , she is the right woman whose name is Scarlett ! she is such a special woman that she can live through all the hardships of the Civil War and Reconstruction although she has once lived as a princess . she has married three man , but she never value them . In her mind , things don’t belong to her is the best . So , she regard when she finds what is the best thing is that the things once belong to her . When you dead the novel , you company her , When she is happy , you smile . When she is suffering , You feel sad . You will never hate her because she is so real and never give up !

Scarlett is not a very beautiful woman , she exhibits more of her father’s hard-headedness than her mother’s refined Southern manners . At the beginning of the novel , Scarlett is a proud princess , many young men in Tara loves her deeply, she owns whatever she wants . But everything changes when her Mr. Right Ashley tells her that he is going to marry another woman Melanie. Scarlett can’t accept it and marry Melanie’s brother Charles to get back on them . But , even herself doesn’t believe that is real and think her behavior is crazy . Not long after that , the Civil War break out . Charles dies on the war and Scarlett gives birth to a baby . But Charles never changes her love about Ashley . Rhett hears Scarlett and Ashley’s talk about Ashley’s marriage . And Scarlett doesn’t understand why he keeps insulting her , but she finds that she sometimes hopes to see him and doesn’t hates him as she used to . However , stubborn Scarlett can’t forget her Ashley and denies that she begins to love Rhett . The war makes everything worse , and brave Scarlett decides to go back to her hometown Tara . With the help of Rhett , Scarlett go back safely . But the situation is very difficult for her , a woman . To survive her family , Scarlett has to find the food 1

herself and pick the cotton . And all this changes Scarlett completely . She becomes rude and impatient , and even kill a solider ! But her crazy love about Ashley never changes . Rhett has always helped her and asks her to be his lover , Scarlett of course refuses him . When the war is over , the situation still isn’t good . Ashley comes back , but to protect his father’s farm , Scarlett marries her sister’s fiancé . After the second husband dies , Scarlett regrets not treating him and her first husband well . Rhett marries Scarlett , but Scarlett still loves Ashley , which hurts Rhett deeply . After Scarlett and Rhett’s little daughter die in accident , Rhett runs away from home . Melanie dies when she gives birth to her second child . Not this moment does Scarlett wares that her real friend is Melanie and her real husband is Rhett . The worst is that Ashley is not as excellent as her thought . Facing all this , brawny Scarlett doesn’t feel hopeless , she just goes to bed and says calmly : “After all , tomorrow is another day . ”

This is our Scarlett , She is the one who dares to do what she thinks is right , doesn’t care about secular ethics . She lives her life without thinking about others’ ideas . She pursuits what she wants no matter whether it is right . But she never give up and struggle against fate whenever troubles are coming . Rhett loves Scarlett , he knows that they are the same kind of person , to win her heart , he runs up all his love and hurt deeply by Scarlett . So he chooses to leave . Rhett is a very clever man , he frauds and threatens people to survive , and does illegal business to own money , but he loves Scarlett full-hearted , and his love is real . When he leaves , Scarlett finds he is her true love . Melanie is a traditional good woman , even other people tells her that they see Scarlett and Ashley hugging each other , Melanie is still unwilling to suspect her . Although Scarlett looks on Melanie as rival in love , when she dies Scarlett finds that she is in fact her guardian . As Rhett says , Ashley is a right person who is born in the wrong age . He loves Scarlett , but just could say sorry to her , he care too much about prestige . When Melanie dies , he gets so incapable . And that’s when Scarlett discovers that she loves the wrong person , Ashley isn’t her Mr. Right . Because it is Rhett who always gives him a hand at these difficult moments , while Ashley could do nothing to change the situation .

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No man is perfect . And the most important thing is the thing we are possessing now , not the things don’t belong to us . After all , tomorrow is another day . The author uses ten years to tell us . And they are the charms of this novel . The most important thing l have leant from Scarlett is that – people can’t defeated by difficult , they are defeated by themselves . l am a person who is very afraid of failure , so l give up many good opportunities . For l am scared that if l don’t make it , people will laugh at me . And l always do things nervously , having little confidence in myself . Scarlett teaches me that if you don’t try , you will never get it . And don’t regret what you have done , what you need do is to find out how to fetch up it . If you think you are right , just do it . Because you are the people who lead your life , not others . It is right to pursuit good things for the future , but first , we must hold and value what we are possessing tightly .

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