【正文】 these had not made Scarlet feel sad, the very thing that brought her great sadness was Ashley also decided to join the war, what?s worse, at that time, both Scarlett and Melanie were pregnant. With out their husbands, the two young ladies have draped into a really difficult and dangerous situation. Scarlett is much more strong and healthy than Melanie. Scarlett gave birth to the baby smoothly, but Melanie was in a very dangerous situation, at this very moment of crisis Scarlett didn?t give up to help Melanie, for she had agreed to take care of Melanie when Ashley was out to war. Luckily Melanie out of danger soon, and also the two girls were became good friends. They decided facing with the difficulties together. They came back to Scarlett?s home, the big Tara. Rhett helped them all the way, but he decided to join the war as soon as they will arrive at Tara. Scarlett can not accept this, Scarlett: Oh, yes, yes! I know we can get through, Rhett. I?m sure we can. Rhett: Not we, my dear, you, I?m leaving you here. Scarlett: You are what? Rhett, where are you going? Rhett: I?m very serious, Scarlett. I?m going to join up with our brave lads in grey. Scarlett: But they are running away? Rhett: Oh, no. They39。ll be with them. I39。t you? Thinking only of your own precious hide with never a thought for the noble cause. 15 Scarlett: Rhett! How could you do this to me? And why should you go now that, after it39。s because I39。re really lost... Or, maybe, maybe I39。t go! You can39。ll never five you! Rhett: I39。ll never understand or five myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I39。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。ve ever loved any woman. And I39。ve ever waited for any woman. Scarlett: Let me alone. Rhett: Here39。t make a mistake and shoot the nag. 16 Scarlett: Oh, go on. I want you to go! I hope a cannon ball lands slap on you! I hope you39。m dead on the altar of my country, I hope your conscience hurts you. Goodbye, Scarlett… (Victor Fleming, 1941, movie) Rhett disappeared at the end of the road, without his help, Scarlett feel lonely and scared, but she didn?t give up, what she agrees was, “ I will make is, mother will help me…” Arriving home at Tara, Scarlett finds the house ruined, the food gone, the crops burned, most of the slaves run off, her mother dead, her father with dementia, and her two sisters sick with typhoid. Desperate for food, she walks to Twelve Oaks only to find it burned to the ground. Hunting around, she finds some vegetables in the gardens of the slave quarters, but bees ill when she tries to eat them. After she recovers, she swears that once the war is over, she will never be hungry again, and takes strength from this vow. She grasps the reins of authority and tries to turn the place around. She finds that some of her neighbors were out of the path of the Yankees and they share with her all that they can spare…after a few days, their life became a little better, but still hard. Scarlett forces her family and the slaves to tend fields and pick 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 Times It 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 17 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