Reading a good book can affect a person for a lifetime. Gone with the Wind is a love novel set in the turbulent social reality of the South during the American Civil War. Set in Atlanta and a nearby plantation, this novel describes the life of southerners in the United States before and after the Civil War. Taking "Gone with the Wind" Scarlett as the main line, this paper describes the love entanglements of several young people. Margaret mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on October 8th, 2000.

Her father is the president of the Atlanta Historical Society. During the civil war, Atlanta fell into the hands of the northern army general Shulman in 1864. Later, it became a hot topic among Atlanta residents. Growing up, Margaret always heard her father talk about the civil war with friends and even residents. When 26-year-old Margaret decided to write a novel about the civil war, Atlanta naturally became the background of the novel.

Margaret is studying at Smith College in Massachusetts. Later, because my mother died of illness, my family needed her to take charge of housework, so I had to drop out of school. From 1922, she began to write for Atlanta Daily with her nickname "Peggy". In the next four years, 129 signed and a large number of unsigned manuscripts appeared in newspapers. One of the manuscripts was a special report written by Margaret for past Confederate generals.

After the marriage failed, Margaret married John Marsh, the advertising director of Georgia Thermal Power Company, on 1925. 1926, Margaret had to quit her job as a newspaper because of a leg injury. Encouraged by her husband, she began to devote herself to creation.

Margaret later told People that it took her nearly 10 years to write Gone with the Wind. In fact, the first drafts of most chapters of the novel were completed as early as 1929. She finished the last chapter of the novel first, and then came back to write the first few chapters, but she never wrote in the order of events, but wrote wherever she thought. For nearly 10 years, Margaret seldom mentioned her manuscript to her friends. Although many people know what she is writing, few people know what she is writing. 1935 In the spring, Harold latham, editor of Macmillan Publishing Company, collected manuscripts all over the country. When he came to Atlanta, he occasionally heard about Margaret's book. At first, Margaret denied that she was writing a novel because she didn't believe that southerners' views on the civil war could interest northern publishers. As a result, the day before latham left Atlanta, Margaret sent her manuscript nearly five feet thick. In July of the same year, McWhae Lun Company decided to publish this novel, tentatively entitled "Tomorrow is a New Day". Since then, Margaret has spent half a year repeatedly verifying the specific time and place of historical events involved in the novel. She quoted a poem by Ernest Dawson, an American poet, and changed the title of the novel to Gone with the Wind. At the same time, Macmillan also made a lot of publicity. Therefore,1June 30, 936, once the masterpiece of this unknown writer was published, its sales immediately broke many records in the American publishing industry: the daily sales reached the peak of 50,000 copies; Issued 100Q copies in the first 6 months; 2 million copies in the first year. Subsequently, this novel won the Pulitzer Prize of 1937 and the American Publishers Association Award. In the year when the novel came out, Hollywood bought the right to adapt Gone with the Wind into a movie for $50,000. The film Gone with the Wind directed by David Selznick and starring clark gable and Vivien Leigh was released on 1939.

For more than half a century, this novel with a thickness of more than 1000 pages has been in the forefront of American bestsellers. By the end of 1970s, novels had been translated into 27 languages and sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.

The publication of Gone with the Wind made Margaret a celebrity in the American literary world almost overnight, and became a household name "heroine" in Atlanta. This sudden fame completely changed her life. 1936 On July 8, nine days after Gone with the Wind was published, Margaret told her experience in a letter to a professor in Florida: "I didn't know that a writer's life would be like this. If I had known in advance, I would never have tried to be a writer. In the past few decades, my life has been very peaceful. This is a lifestyle I choose, because I am not good at interacting with people; Because I want to work and like to be quiet; And because of poor health, I need to rest. In recent days, my life has completely lost that quiet atmosphere. "

Margaret's maid also recalled, "On the day when the novel was published, the phone rang every three minutes, someone knocked at the door every five minutes, and a telegram came to the door every seven minutes. A dozen people stood at the door of the apartment, waiting for Margaret to come out so that she could sign the novel. "

There is an endless stream of people who ask for interviews, invite Margaret to give speeches all over the world, and even ask her to donate to various charities. In the first week alone, 300 copies of Gone with the Wind were sent to her from all over the country. These admirers want her to sign and pay. The ensuing disputes over copyright and translation rights plunged her into a series of legal affairs. So it's not hard to understand why Margaret didn't publish any works after Gone with the Wind was published until she died in a car accident in August 1949. But she left many letters. Her collection of letters (1976) was published by Macmillan Company, entitled "Floating on margaret mitchell"; Letters. "

Although Gone with the Wind is a novel about war, Margaret did not focus on the battlefield. Except for the tragic scene where Wujiaochang was full of wounded and sick before the fall of Atlanta, other war scenes did not cost the author too much ink. As the first novel describing the American Civil War from the perspective of southern women, Margaret focuses on the experiences and feelings of women who stayed behind, from their reverence and full support for the war at the beginning to the pain of losing their loved ones, having to give in to the fate of failure and the difficult process of rebuilding their homes after the war. After the defeat of the war, some people were depressed and lost their original fighting spirit, unable to adjust their mentality and face the fragmented life after the war. On the contrary, others have overcome the psychology of failure, faced the harsh reality with awe, and become strong men who are not afraid of life difficulties and move forward again on the journey of life. Gone with the Wind has many themes, such as the fate of gone with the wind and the drifting southern American culture. The hero's thoughts and feelings were deeply influenced by the American Civil War. War has changed women. They defended their land in the war and smoke. They are brave, strong and unyielding, because "tomorrow is another day".

Although Gone with the Wind is only a novel, I have a deeper understanding of the American Civil War by reading Gone with the Wind. From a historical point of view, the victory of the North over the South is a historical progress and a necessity of social development. But after reading Gone with the Wind, we can see that from the moral judgment, slavery in the south also has warmth and friendship, and the war waged by the north against the south is also an aggression to some extent, which destroys the order and relations in the south and intensifies the racial conflict between whites and blacks to some extent.

Reading this book really inspired me and benefited me a lot. Whether it is beautiful and fluent language description or vivid characterization, this book has reached its peak. This is really a treasure of world literature. Among them, the heroine's view of love makes me deeply touched.

Scarlett, an outstanding figure who was born in the turbulent years of America, her outstanding personality radiates endless light. This is a complete woman, a complete woman with shortcomings. Although it is only a microcosm of the author, it not only contains the author's own life experience, but also many women in it! She is worth seeing, no, it should be worth seeing many times.

Looking at her is like looking at yourself. She is brave, strong, optimistic, tenacious in life and never gives in. She is decisive and clever. The most outstanding point is her persistence in love. She has an angelic face and a devil's figure-in the words of ancient China beauties, it is to sink fish and fall wild geese, and shut the moon and feel ashamed of flowers-which makes many young men fall at her feet. However, she doesn't care about this. She is crazy about love. But out of desperation, she married two people she didn't like. When she saw her beloved Ashley again, she was still madly in love with him like a girl and poured out her love to him desperately. This reminds me of another manifestation of women's loyalty to love in China feudal society. Take Peacock Flying Southeast as an example, a man and a woman must tie the knot to show their loyalty to love, which is closely linked to marriage. "The monarch is a rock, the concubine is a reed, the reed is as tough as silk, and the rock has not moved." When their love was destroyed by others, they had to "hang the southeast branch" in order to show their persistence in love. However, Scarlett is different. In her view of love, love and marriage can be separated, or the separation of spirit and body. She doesn't care about each other's marriage. She put aside all bold things to love Ashley and strive for her own happiness. She doesn't put the shackles of ethics and morality on her love, and her love will always be free and unrestrained. This may be caused by cultural differences between East and West. The essence of love will not change with the change of expression.

When I was in high school, I read these two thick books carefully, and I felt two things: I like Scarlett very much, but I don't like Barrett very much.

I didn't like such a man who seemed to care about himself at that time. I always feel that the man who loves me should never give up. The man who always makes me angry is the most annoying.

Now that I am old (with a smile), I begin to have a true and profound understanding of life and love. I often think about my behavior with Scarlett's thoughts-I hope to support myself with that firm belief, and I need some practical actions like that to remind myself to avoid being naive.

Scarlett sees me as a realistic and luxurious woman who never gives up her ideals. Her life is colorful and her love is incomplete, but it seems perfect to me. Everything in her life is what I expect, including love.

It's strange to fall in love with such a woman. No man can escape, and neither can I. ...

Scarlett has been fascinated by love for most of her life. I did a lot of wrong things because I was confused. It was not until the end that she discovered that Ashley, whom she had always loved deeply, did not love her, nor was she as good as she imagined. In fact, she loves not Ashley, but a perfect image of herself. The more Ashley refuses her, the more perfect the image in her heart-which is exactly what China said: what she can't get is the best-and it is because of her wrong infatuation that she mistakenly views the real happiness around her. This also inspired me: people should learn to distinguish right from wrong and not let happiness slip through their fingers. For Scarlett, my feelings are contradictory. I hate her, but I have to admire her. She is a person of great personality. She loved two men in her life, but neither of them knew her. If she knew Ashley, she wouldn't love him. If she had known Rhett, she wouldn't have lost him. She has failed Rhett all the time, and she just keeps pursuing the prince of her dreams-Ashley. She just thinks Ashley has the characteristics she loves. She just made Ashley a gorgeous dress and fell in love with him. As a matter of fact, she only likes that skirt.

For her, I have to admire her strength, her persistence in the land, her ability to put down her previous education and field work in the central environment, and her ability to start her own business regardless of social remarks. How many souls does her life have? One is her mother. His mother is a typical lady who is very capable and gentle, and she is the person she admires most. However, my mother contracted typhoid fever to save people and died. The other is the person she has liked for more than ten years-Ashley. The reason why she can stand up in adversity is largely due to Ashley. She is very persistent about Ashley. There's another one, Melanie. After more than ten years of joint efforts, Melanie has become an indispensable part of her life.

I think Scarlett, like a child, is extremely persistent about what she wants, but dismissive of what she has. On the one hand, I am desperately trying to make myself happy, on the other hand, I am constantly pushing happiness away and pushing my lover to the abyss.

Scarlett loves Ashley, but Ashley doesn't want her. As Rhett said, Ashley is a gentleman, but he was born in an era that is alien to him. He still lives according to the rules of the old world and will only hit a wall. Scarlett doesn't know Ashley, so she loves him and tries her best to get him. When she recognized him, she stopped loving him.

Scarlett is a contradiction, but who is not a contradiction? She is on the road of life. When she faced difficulties, she chose to face them. When she faced the responsibility, she chose to take responsibility. But when she faced love, at first, he chose to deceive himself. When she finally realized, it was too late to face it. And when she is helpless, she will tell herself that tomorrow is another day, everything will be fine tomorrow, and tomorrow is another day. Throughout the story, she is full of vitality and fighting spirit. What I admire most is her sentence "Tomorrow is another day." Always full of hope and fighting spirit, never give up and never despair. This spirit is the most worth learning. Therefore, whenever I encounter difficulties and feel bad, I will tell myself, "Tomorrow is another day".

Thankfully, nothing is too late in Scarlett's love world. After she completely lost Ashley and her daughter, and her husband Rhett left her, she realized that the person she really loved was Rhett, so she put aside her psychological trauma and regret and believed that she would be able to save Rhett's heart. "Anyway, tomorrow is another day!" If many people can have this optimistic and confident attitude towards love, then many love tragedies will not happen.

Another woman in the book I admire very much is Melanie. She is a woman who is soft on the outside and hard on the inside. She has almost all the virtues that women can have. As Rhett said, she is one of the few noble ladies he has ever seen. She is strong, patriotic and loves everyone around her. When her husband was fighting, she waited silently in the rear, doing what she could. When the Yankees came to town, she was going to have a baby, and she remained calm. When she was weak and no one wanted to work in the fields, she abandoned her past education and sense of superiority and dragged her weak body to work in the fields. When she saw Scarlett kill a Yankee, she didn't panic, but helped to bury the body and find money. When the war finally ended and the Yankee soldiers she hated came to her door to ask for care, and they didn't have much food, she still tried her best to help them because she hoped that a kind Yankee woman could give her husband a meal in the distance.

Such a strong woman is so gentle, kind and considerate. She firmly believes in Scarlett and Ashley, and even if someone sees them hugging, she firmly believes in them and protects Scarlett. Knowing that her body could no longer bear the pain of childbirth, she insisted on having another child for Ashley and finally left the person she loved all her life.

It's really great. Looking at Melanie reminds me of many ancient women in China. They are also so kind, so hard, care for each other, educate their children, and then die in obscurity.

My favorite character in the whole book is Rhett. He is brave and persistent, and he can love Scarlett so much for more than ten years. He wanted to protect Scarlett, love Scarlett, take care of Scarlett and make her happy, but Scarlett refused. He said that even eternal love would be polished, and his love was polished by Scarlett, Ashley and Scarlett's stupid stubbornness. His heart is dead. When his daughter left him, his heart never came back. He said that he never had the patience to sew the cut trousers, and then told himself that they were as good as new, just lying to himself. If it's broken, it's broken. You can't go back. Even after the repair, there are still cracks on it, which is not the original one.

Barrett has a good family background, but he is not proud of it. He has a keen eye and a clever mind. He can find his own way quickly in troubled times. His courage, persistence, wit and decisiveness have all become pleasing factors, as well as his single-minded heart under his bohemian appearance. He loves Scarlett, protects her, dotes on her and takes care of her. He hopes. So he has been waiting patiently, waiting for his beloved Scarlett to fall in love with him, but eternal love will be polished. In this way, his daughter left him, and his heart died and he could never come back. So he chose to leave. Barrett is happy for Scarlett's silent dedication; I feel sorry for Barrett's last departure. ...

Rhett is a complicated man. His family is good, but it is still out of date. He has a keen eye and can find his own way in troubled times. He loves this country. Even though he knew he would lose, he joined the army at the last minute. He loves Scarlett, but he knows Scarlett better, so he never says anything, but expresses it through actions, and Scarlett never wants to know him. Finally, he was desperate, and repeated disappointments made him have no courage to try again. He is tired.

When I closed my eyes, I felt that I was in Atlanta, and I gathered in the driveway, crowded with people waiting for the death list. The four Tarleton brothers are all finished, Tom and the twin brothers are all finished, and Wilkes, Ashley's father and the gray-haired old man are also hit by shells. Mrs. Meade's eldest son died, and her youngest son was seriously injured on the battlefield before he was sixteen. This is an exciting war, and hundreds of injured flies are flying. . . The south lost and the Yankees came. . .

Many people read this book, all about Scarlett's feelings for Ashley and Rhett, and Scarlett's courage and strength. Some people even say that she will always be full of hope and fighting spirit, never give up and never despair. In fact, she is not a god. She is equally vulnerable. She was only 17 years old when she faced this war.

I always feel that if she hadn't met Rhett, her life would have been buried in the eternal seventeen years old by some so-called morality.

Ashley is the person she has been blindly in love with. I always thought Melanie should never know Scarlett's love for Ashley, and now I find Melanie's shrewdness.

During the war, Scarlett was worried about Ashley beyond words. How could she not see Melanie? She just didn't say that she regarded Scarlett as her sister and the person she needed most. She wrote to support her. This person often hates her, but sometimes she is moved by her kindness.

Ashley, I've always looked down on this man, from the bottom of my heart. Scarlett loves him because she doesn't know him. When she did this, love disappeared.

Rhett, in the words of people who don't know him in the book, is an asshole and a villain. His love for Scarlett is the most sincere and real action, but Scarlett can't see it. By the time she understood, it was too late, alas ~ ~

To be fair, I like Scarlett's independent, self-centered and "bold" personality. At the same time, I am very angry with my "selfish" by hook or by crook and my impure and disloyal feelings. I have discussed Scarlett with different girls several times, hoping to know how to look at Scarlett from a female perspective. As a result, most of them admire Scarlett's courage, ability and action at that time, but they are tolerant of her "casually" without solar terms, thinking that those are all expedient measures that she has to do, all for survival. But when you think about it, it is. In the turbulent era when Scarlett lived, without her "tough" personality, a weak woman could not support a family, and a group of friends could not keep Tao Le left by her father. Scarlett used the money she earned by haggling over every ounce and various "cruel means" to get a new life for herself and her friends' families. On the other hand, Scarlett is very kind and takes care of Mei Lan. At first, I may have loved my family out of my love for Wei Xili, but in the end, I didn't. Their personalities are completely different. Scarlett is often angry with Meilai and even wants to abandon her. Fortunately, at the critical moment, Scarlett did not interfere with her emotional choice with personal interests. Finally, it is a miracle that these two women with completely different personalities have reached a lifelong friendship. As for Scarlett's feelings for Rhett, at first I thought Scarlett was using Rhett for utilitarian purposes, and she didn't really like Rhett until she finally saw Ashley. On the other hand, Rhett's love for Scarlett is true, although Rhett's character is similar to Scarlett's utilitarian character and full of arrogance. But I think he has liked Scarlett since he first met her at Oak 12. This kind of love is out of admiration and love for Scarlett.

I like the image of Rhett better than my love and anger for Scarlett. He is "bohemian" without losing himself, full of rascal spirit without losing a man's patriotic pride. Moreover, he was born in a famous family (a graduate of artillery major at West Point Military Academy, USA). Rhett looks like a cynical and mercenary old rascal, but we can know from Whobel that Rhett is actually kind-hearted and helpful. As for Rhett's patriotic feelings, not to mention, when their "country" (south) was in crisis, the blockade merchants led by Rhett went through all hardships, overcame all difficulties, broke through the blockade line in the north, delivered much-needed materials to the south, and went into battle in person on the night of Atlanta's fall, fighting back against the "Yankees" with guns. Even so, only Mei Lan knows Rhett, and Atlanta's upper class still looks down on him.

Although Gone with the Wind is only a novel, I have a deeper understanding of the American Civil War by reading Gone with the Wind. From a historical point of view, the victory of the north over the south is the progress of history and the necessity of social development, which we have all learned in history books. But after reading Gone with the Wind, we can see that from the moral judgment, slavery in the south also has warmth and friendship, and the war waged by the north against the south is also an aggression to some extent, which destroys the order and relations in the south and intensifies the racial conflict between whites and blacks to some extent.

In a word, Gone with the Wind is a world famous book, which has touched me for a long time.

I have to admit, I don't read much, especially famous books and world famous books. When I was at school, I read La Traviata and Red and Black in a hurry, perhaps because of the shallowness of literary literacy or the different world outlook, which didn't bring me much shock. During the summer vacation, my friend recommended me to watch Gone with the Wind. At that time, I still remember that she was mysterious and jokingly said, "After reading it, you will change your view on choosing a spouse!" "

It took me a month to finish reading. I am ashamed of my reading speed like an old cow, but I dare not compliment myself on how well I read. After reading it, I have a feeling of melancholy in my heart. In the dim light, I always feel that Scarlett is vaguely lying on me. After watching Gone with the Wind, it really gave me a great shock. How many times have I shared happiness, fun, sadness and laughter with it? How much melancholy, how much joy, how much emotion, how much wonder. It also reminded me of my regrets about the past. At the same time, I also feel a lot about the life, friendship and love described in the book.

I dare not comment on the good and evil of life. My idea may be naive. Scarlett O 'Hara, the heroine in Gone with the Wind, is not a good woman in the traditional concept. She has a charming appearance, a clever mind, a strong heart and brave behavior. At the same time, she is also proud, greedy, vain, pursuing reality, and even used to doing whatever it takes to achieve her goal. She is eager for love, regardless of all worldly ideas, and bravely pursues her own love. However, when feelings conflict with real interests, she resolutely puts economic needs first. If I worship Scarlett, I love Rhett even more, because I am equally noble and free. His boldness, his reality and his courage vividly show that he is a talented person who grew up in troubled times and a strong person who survived and developed in troubled times. It has become an eternal truth that the strong should adapt to any society. In the economic society, the choice of spirit, in the face of new things, is it adaptation or avoidance? After thinking, I believe we will have more inspiration.

Speaking of friendship, although the author didn't try to describe friendship in Gone with the Wind, I still envy Melanie's friendship with her friends. I remember Sanfei said, "There are three kinds of friends: those who love you, those who hate you and those who can't forget you." I think Melanie is estelle's kind of friend. She was so grateful to Scarlett that even then she could die. Her sincerity finally made Scarlett understand that she was the only true friend before her death. Who can live without friends? Having a few real friends becomes the most precious thing in a person's life. The best and truest way to treat friends is sincerity!

I've been thinking about what Mitchell's other novels would be like if she hadn't died in a car accident.

If a writer wants people to fall in love with him, he should write more works and let readers know him from different sides. Because although a book can reflect many aspects of a writer, it is not all.

But Mitchell is like a cuckoo crying blood, as if her whole life is for Gone with the Wind. It's a pity that she died after writing it.

Personally, I think Gone with the Wind has two main lines. Love and war.

The history we have been exposed to before is very cold, as if it were a necessary means to run for the liberation of black people. Justice is in the north and ignorance in the south.

However, in Gone with the Wind, the southern perspective makes this war look like I want to cry. The complicated relationship between people in the war is very romantic, whether it is positive or negative.

I think I am more like Scarlett. And I don't think there is anything wrong with Rhett, even great!

Decades of feelings have been tossing back and forth. Finally, although the ending is very subtle, everyone can imagine that with Scarlett's character and Rhett's affection, they will eventually walk together.

Its sequel "Scarlett" (not written by Mitchell, of course) continues this relationship well. I think sequels are also rare works!

This book also makes the relationship between the Irish and the land very solid and convincing.

After reading the whole book, I also picked out two of my favorite sentences:

"Beauty can't make people noble, and clothes can't make people noble." -warning vain people.

"I have never been that kind of person. I can't patiently pick up some pieces, stick them together, and then say to myself that this patched thing is as good as new. If something is broken, it is broken-I would rather remember what it looked like at its best than repair it and look at those broken places all my life. "

Looking for love in love

A woman who yearns for and pursues love persistently has to be betrayed by her heart again and again in the face of the pressure of life.

A stubborn, almost stubborn woman is not aware of her love.

A woman who is frightened by material fatigue pursues material things, but it is beyond reproach, because such a woman is also trying to help the person she loves, but has been carefully safeguarding the dignity of this man.

Sadly, when the person you really love leaves after being hurt again and again.

Fortunately, this woman who never gives up in the face of difficulties always gives herself hope.