【正文】 at is most deeply embedded in American culture. The novel mainly describes the life of Scarlett who is the daughter of Tara?s master around the American Civil War. Meanwhile with the hint of a triangular love between Scarlett, Ashley and Rhett, the novel depicts a wide and prosperous picture of the social life of the South in America. An important element of the story?s popularity is Scarlett O?Hara, the outstanding heroine who is full of conflicting and plicated features. This article analyzes the character of Scarlett from three aspects: the first one is her attitude towards life around the civil war。 the second one is the exterior and internal reasons for the shaping of her character。 the last one is Scarlett?s attitude towards love and marriage. The analysis aims at showing the eternal charms of the image, Scarlett in the novel. 7 Chapter One the Period before the War Mitchell?s work relates the story of a rebellious Geia 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. 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 fotten much, Cynara! Gone with the wind.”[6] The title phrase also appears in the novel: When Scarlett of FrenchIrish 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 Geia?”[7] 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… The Plot Summary The novel opens at Tara, the O?Haras? plantation in Geia, 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 8 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 Geia 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. 9 Scarlett in the Period before War 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 maledominated world. Gradually she bees 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.”[8] Slowly Scarlett is brought up, not apparently different from other girls. Like other girls, she is extremely interested in lov