【正文】 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?”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 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 Georgia 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. Scarlett in the Period before War Education of the Women in the South before WarScarlett 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.” Slowly Scarlett is brought up, not apparently different from other girls. Like other girls, she is extremely interested in love and marriage. Scarlett’s mother Ellen, by softvoiced admonition, their mon Mammy, constant carping and labor to inculcate in her the qualities that will make her truly desirable as a wife. She does not disappoint them in this aspect because, by the age of sixteen, she has learned to use the attributes of womanhood to advance predatory designs: the manipulation and seduction of men. Extremely selfish in love and marriage, “she was constitutionably unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself” (). Bored by the Tarleton twins’ talk of war, she moodily changes the subject to something far more interesting to her: the next day’s barbecue and hall at the Twelve Oaks. Deeply rooted in Western culture is the assumption that a woman’s energies are properly devoted to the chores of her family. In the South, little attention is paid to women’s education and educational opportunities for girls are more limited than those for boys. In the opening chapter of the novel, we got the information that Scarlett is not offered enough education and she has not opened a book since she left the Fayetteville Female Academy at the age of fifteen. However, the door of education is much wider for the boys. Stuart and Brent, the Tarleton twins, have been expelled from the University of Georgia, the fourth university that has thrown them out in two years, when they sit with Scarlett in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, the plantation of Scarlett’s father Gerald O’Hara. Unexpectedly, they are soon offered another chance to go on with their college education. All of a girl’s education, if there is any, is reduced to the arts and graces of being attractive to men. It is univ