At last, Scarlett realizes that Rhett and herself are the people with the same character, and he always loves her and supports for her. But Scarlett looks down upon him and mocks him, and she doesn’t know his love for her. However, she admits the common sense between them and she likes to be with him. Under the tolerance of Rhett, she shows her rebellion, her vanity and selfishness. She can’t realize her true feeling and she avoids facing the reality of the spirit. Until her dream for Ashley is broken and Rhett is too tired to love her and is going to leave her, she realizes the value of Rhett, but it is too late. Although her realistic character unites together both on the material and spiritual aspects and she realizes what the true love is, she must face the reality that Rhett will leave her alone.
Life is filled with various contradictions, and when a contradiction is over; another is coming, so the plots of the story will develop further and the portrayed image will be more charming.
It is better to see her not being blown down. She always encourages herself that “Tomorrow is another day” and “Things always look better in the morning.”[10] She still believes that she cans get him back finally.
4. Scarlett’s Attitude towards Love and Marriage
Scarlett spends most of her life being adored and loved by others. Wherever she goes, she is always the center and focus among the girls. Although she marries three times, she never understands the meaning of love or gets the true love. In real life, love and marriage are often related with each other by most of people, because love is the foundation of marriage. But Scarlett divides them into two, which proves that she is a character full of contradictory and complexity. In the novel, Scarlett has been thinking that she loves Ashley and some decisions she made are also related with Ashley. However, she never considers marriage as a serious matter but just treats it as playgames, and she marries with the men she doesn’t love just in order to resolve living problems.
4.1 Scarlett’s Attitude towards her Marriages
Marriage is a serious matter and also a nice dream to most of the young girls, but Scarlett treats her marriage as playgames. Scarlett is so immature that she marries Charles Hamilton who she doesn’t love at all to hurt Ashley for her first marriage. From then on, she becomes a slave of love, and she loses the ability to distinguish what is right from wrong, which is the basis of her love tragedy.[11] The Civil War kills her first husband after two months of their marriage, and Scarlett becomes a widow at her sixteen years old. She endures the rules of being a widow, but the war changes her goal of life. In order to survive, to save Tara, she marries her sister’s lover by subterfuge once more. Not long after her second husband’s death, she marries Rhett for her third marriage. She thinks that marring him, she will never have to bother about money again and never to worry about money again, to know that Tara was safe, that the family was fed and clothed, that she would never again have to bruise herself against stonewalls. 英语作文