【正文】 cotton, every member in the family afraid of her, but Melanie gave her totally understanding, and helped her a lot.During the war, Ashley joined the war and soon lost all his information. Rhett abandons Scarlett and Melanie on the road back to Tara to fight for the South. Without their help scarlet shouldered all the responsibilities by her own and lived indomitably… Scarlett’s Capability of Changing with TimesIt is obviously that the North is much more stronger than the South, the North has more stronger weapon, more people, more skillful technology, earlier or later, they will win, but many southerners do not accept the fact, and they fail to realize that their ideal is out of date and must be remolded to correspond to the new conditions of the social environment. However, Scarlett is wiser and more flexible in the new environment. Unlike her sisters, she didn’t stay in the sadness of war, but work hard to live better, she knew that she was no longer the princess of Tara. When every Southerner give up include Ashley, she didn’t, she knew deeply that her old way of life in Tara can not survive in the new world. No longer an idle and pampered girl as she has been in Tara, she has to spend much time in nursing the wounded and rolling the bandages for the South. Before the War, she lives at Tara, trying to adhere to old Southern values. In Atlanta, she begins to defy the rules that society has impressed upon her since her birth. She makes a bold move and dances in public as a widow, which marks her first step in defiance of Atlanta’s social expectations. In the war time, Scarlett lived no more like the life she lived before the war, she shouldered the responsibility to take care of Melanie, and also shouldered all the responsibility to take care of all her family when she returned to Tara, her thoughts and actions change greatly, hardships in reality and changes in society make her realize overnight that she is no longer a spoiled woman dependent on other people and, instead, the other people are dependent on her.To Scarlett it seemed that at every turn she met outstretched hands, pleading eyes.After her return to Tara from Atlanta, she violates all the rules of conduct laid on Southern young ladies. On the night of the fall of Atlanta, though exhausted from the delivery of Melanie’s child, Scarlett has to drive a carriage towards Tara. She maneuvers safely past soldiers of both camps, who may rob her of her horse. The long ride is harrowing and Scarlett emerges at Tara exhausted, but she has changed and will continue to change. She finds nothing is in favor of her. Her mother is dead the day before, her father in a state of dementia, her two sisters sick with typhoid. Without her mother to turn to for support or fort after her hellish trip, she drinks some whisky and sinks into despair, but that didn’t last long, she suddenly remembers her courageous ancestors who have overe hardships and won fortunes. She is eager to give up this new found responsibility and collapse into the arms of her mother, but her mother has been dead. Scarlett can not put down this burden that she has never even wanted to pick up. Tara without her mother needs a strong woman, and without any hesitation, Scarlett takes up maternal duties that she keeps for the rest of the novel. It is her mother’s death that forces Scarlett to face reality and serves as an in dispensable catalyst for change in Scarlett. Scarlett’s Persistent Pursuit of Better LifeAs I mentioned, the War broke out, and also the difficult life es, the War brings Scarlett to a moment of reflection:Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet and dancing slippers had slipped away and there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies and turned her hands to many me。t make a mistake and shoot the nag.Scarlett: Oh, go on. I want you to go! I hope a cannon ball lands slap on you! I hope you39。ve ever waited for any woman. Scarlett: Let me alone. Rhett: Here39。re alike. Bad lots both of us... selfish and shrewed, but able to look things in the eyes and call them by their right names.Scarlett: Don39。Rhett: I39。t go! You can39。re really lost... Or, maybe, maybe I39。Rhett: Selfish to the end, aren39。 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 Georgia?”[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 SummaryThe novel opens at Tara, the O’Haras’ plantation in Georgia, 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 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 be