【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 s and personal development around the Civil war, include her carefree and selfwill before the Civil war, Scarlett‘s responsibility, bravery and wisdom in postwar reconstruction, and her special views of love and marriage。 the second one shows Melanie‘s personalities and personality charm。 in the last part, I classify modern female into two major partsthe businesswoman and the housewife, and set Scarlett and Melanie as examples for modern female to follow. Key words: Gone with the Wind。 Scarlett。 Melanie。 Modern female 內(nèi)容提 要 ： 瑪格麗特 .米歇爾所著的長(zhǎng)篇小說《飄》在世界文壇上占據(jù)著不可替代的地位。小說通過描寫戰(zhàn)前戰(zhàn)后的人民生活狀況，以斯嘉麗、白瑞特、艾希禮和梅蘭妮之間復(fù)雜的感情糾葛為線索，刻畫了一幅壯觀而又生動(dòng)的美國南方社會(huì)的生活畫面。在作品塑造的眾多富有特色的人物中，兩位女主角斯嘉麗和梅蘭妮代表著兩類女性，即家庭主婦與事業(yè)女性以及她們各自的人生態(tài)度。本文通過分析比較兩者的性格特點(diǎn)，并提取其中優(yōu)秀的品質(zhì)以供當(dāng)代女性學(xué)習(xí)。本文擬從三個(gè)方面展開討論：一是 在內(nèi)戰(zhàn)前后斯嘉麗性格的變化及成長(zhǎng)，主要包括戰(zhàn)前的自在、任性；戰(zhàn)后家園重建 過程中體現(xiàn)的責(zé)任、勇敢與智慧以及她的愛情、婚姻關(guān)。第二章主要對(duì)梅蘭妮的性格以及其人格魅力進(jìn)行闡述。第三章通過分類現(xiàn)代女性，各從斯嘉麗與梅蘭妮的性格優(yōu)點(diǎn)中，給予商業(yè)女性與家庭主婦建議與啟示。 關(guān)鍵詞 ：飄 。斯嘉麗 。梅蘭妮 ?，F(xiàn)代女性 2 Introduction As Gone with the Wind has being popular, two heroines in this novel Scarlett and Melanie also left a deep impression on readers mind by their extremely different personalities. Although they are entirely different from each other in almost all aspects, from the opinions toward social to the evaluation to themselves, they both can be highly praised by modern female. During both of their lives, they are wonderful soldiers fighting in their own battles. Scarlett, with her natural rebellion, against any restrictions fettled her, she pursues the forever carefree and happiness, for which goals she has to be strong enough and save enough money. Melanie seems not ambitious, but she has been a model of wife who has set a glory status. Time has changed, women nowadays showed their importance in every part of human life. ―Businesswoman‖ is no longer a rare word since women begin to rush into the business world and take a half crucial role in family ines. However, in order to run a successful career, women must suffer much more than men. Scarlett O′ Hara, a woman who is brave, confident, innovative, and indifferent and dare to defiance the social restrictions, possesses all of the qualities of businesswoman. What can not be changed with the time is the so called ―natural duty‖. As a woman, her natural duty is to look after her husband and children and to maintain the harmony of the family. It is possible that to be a good wife is no easier than to be a good businesswoman. For Melanie, a woman who gets the qualities of tolerance, respect, sincerity and trust, can be absolutely called a perfect housewife. 3 I made this paper aims to set Scarlett and Melanie as the model of businesswoman and housewife, giving good examples and suggestions for modern female‘s personal development. The article contains three large parts. The first part is the changing of Scarlett‘s characteristics around the Civil War. It consists of her antebellum carefree and selfwill, postwar responsibility, bravery and wisdom and stubbornness in love and intentional in marriage. The second part es to Melanie‘s personalities and personality charm, something about her kindhearted, mercy and tolerant to be a good wife. The last part selects some of their good qualities for modern females to follow, for example, qualities of natural liberation, bravery and persistence, decisive and sacrifice for office ladies。 love respect and trust for housewives. 4 Chapter 1 Scarlett’s Personalities and Personal Development Two popular and parable roles in this novel are Scarlett and Melanie. Both of them are young ladies popular among upper class. As rivals they both like Ashley, but they are no doubt best friends with opposite characters. One is a selfconcerned business woman, who runs her own career and feed a big family. The other is a typical housewife, who is obviously a good wife and mother. Pursuing for true love is a main clue of Scarlett‘s story. Her continue love for Ashley and courage of admit her love is much advance of other girls at that time. She has the strong bravery to face fresh and blood and to overe difficulties, but her wish of independence is not accepted by the society at that time. What accepted by that society is woman like Melanie who never plaints and fights for her dream, or in other words the one who has little egoism. Scarlett is rebellion against social restrictions. She hates the rules of the society. She herself decides her marriage to Charles, and after his death, she disagrees with the rule that a widow must wear black weeds and can‘t show her face in the public. Even in the party, she accepts Rhett‘s invitation to dance with him openly and ignores other people‘s plains. She runs her own career so that she can protect Tara—her house land. Her action is a heavy blow to society which is mancentered. After she has went trough the failure of love, endured the fear of war, reconstructed the postwar Tara, surffered from the death of her beloved daughter and seen the leaving of her husband, Scarlett still has not bent to the fate. As Ashley once said,‖ At no moment have I ever seen you use a handkerchief.‖ 5 Never cares about other people‘s opinion and breaks the stereotype that women can not run business successfully, Scarlett with her spirit of advance and creation, created a femalemanager phenomenon. Carefree and Selfwill before the Civil War Scarlett, grows up in the oldest daughter of the owner of Tara—a farmland, in which she has suffered strict management and education of traditional principals. The same as any other girls in upper class, she lives a very simple and happy life, preparing for being the beautiful wife of a gentleman. She was partly hoping for being a housewife like Melanie does, but her characters of carefree and selfwill made her b