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, good wives, loving mothers and the backbone of southern civilization and social morality. The following part will analyze feminism in traditional female characters represented by Ellen O?Hara. Pursuit of true love and free marriage Scarlett?s mother Ellen, a typical noble and elegant female character, is a faultless woman with selfless love. Although she abides by the traditional conventions, she is also a girl with flesh and blood, thought and love. When her love is against ethical codes, she also flares resistant sparks, showing her selfconsciousness. At the age of fifteen, Ellen irrevocably falls in love with her cousin Philip, a playboy. Her father firmly objects to it and manage to extrude Philip. Later Philip dies of a bar rioting. His death takes away all of Ellen?s hope. She adopts the only way a girl can take to fight against her father?s autocracy——forcing her father to agree with her own choice of marriage with the threat of being a nun. She buries her desperation down in her heart and exhausts her life in selfless dedication to her family. However on her deathbed, what she calls out are not the names of her daughters or her husband, but her beloved Philip. Although her fight dose not make her live with her lover, it reflects women?s longing and pursuit for free love and selfdirected marriage. This obviously oversteps the meaning of love and marriage themselves and extends to the pursuance of human rights and women?s independence. Model mother The role of mother constantly occupies a special position in American literature. Mothers are considered to be kind, tender, diligent and responsible. The other honorable female roles such as wives, volunteers, teachers, and authors are all defined as the extension of motherhood in literature since they are all regarded as persons who unstintingly give people love, help and spiritual guidance just like mothers. Ellen is such a perfect kind of mothers. Her standard manners set a good example for others and she also serves as the living and spiritual backbone of the family. 6. Conclusion Gone with the Wind, an American novel by Margaret Mitchell is one of the most popular of all time. The author of Gone with the Wind is Margaret Mitchell, an American modern woman writer. She is frequently neglected by critics. Many people neglect the value of feminist learning contained in her work. So in her novel, we can find her idea of women?s equality and independence with men. Gone with the Wind is a very successful mercial novel。 however it doesn?t get enough attention from the literary critics accordingly. If we focus on the limited critiques of Gone with the Wind, we can find that the novel was discussed only as a realistic romance. Few scholars analyze the novel from the feminist perspective. Actually, Gone with the Wind turns out turns out to be a valuable target to be studied and analyzed from the feminist perspective. The value of feminist leaning contained in the novel is very obvious. The author of Gone with the Wind is a woman who was deeply influenced with Feminism. The story of Gone with the Wind is set during the American Civil War and Reconstruction period. At that time, in the South, men were the dominance of women. In order to obey the passive femininity, the Southern women needed to appear timid, helpless, and feeble. They didn?t have the fundamental political and civil rights. And their economic and educational opportunities were also very limiter. This paper has analyzed the awakening of female selfconsciousness reflected in this novel by analyzing the changes Scarlett gone through before the war, during the war and after the war There are many lively and vivid characters in Gone with the Wind, and the most important one is Scarlett O?Hara. She is an extraordinarily energetic woman. Scarlett has the courage to survive the horrors and chaos of the war years. Her transformation is closely associated with the changing Southern culture and society. What impress the reader most is her constant feminist leanings which bee and more noticeable in the novel. According to the analysis done by the thesis, it is found that Gone with the Wind is a valuable work which contains feminist leanings. We should read it and study it from different perspectives. At last, as the limitation of the thesis, the paper ends here, but it is obvious that researches on Gone with the Wind