Scarlett is alike Rhett very much: Both of them are the rebels of their families and the society of the South; they all oppose the feudal morals, and they all have the bourgeoisie merchant natural disposition, that is to say, they are all selfish and they will try all means to achieve their goals. They seem to be made for each other. In fact, Scarlett has already trusted in him and depended on him when she affiliates with him, but she doesn’t realize her love to him.

Rhett knows that Scarlett scorns men she can win easily, so Rhett refuses to show her she defeats him. He mocks her, argues with her, and eventually resorts to cruelty and indifference in order to win her. Even knowing about the true reason of Scarlett’s marriage to him, Rhett still loves her and dotes on her, acting as parent to Scarlett throughout the novel-guiding her out of mourning, comforting her from bad nightmares. Rhett to Scarlett, in the final scene: "You were such a child, my dear, I wanted to marry you and protect you".[13] He understands Scarlett very much, so he gives her all supports he can. He encourages her to shun social customs and gives her money to start her own business. He wants to drive Ashley out of Scarlett’s hearts, but after a long time with his best efforts, he still cannot change her and make her understand his love for her. He feels pain and tired at last. He compares Scarlett to a child crying for the moon: “I’m sorry for you-sorry to see you throwing away happiness with both hands and reaching out for something that would never make you happy…”[14]
Scarlett’s idealization of Ashley slowly fades as time goes on, and she finally sees that the Ashley she loves is not a real man but a man embellished and adorned by her imagination. “I love something I made up, something that’s just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so difference, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn’t see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes-and not him at all.”[15] After Melanie’ death, Scarlett finds that Ashley has never loved for Melanie, to him, she is only a dream that he lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality. Scarlett finds him only a coward who will depend on her in the future without Melanie. Then she knows that the heaven she has sought in dreams, the place of warm safety, which has always been hidden from her in the mist. It is not Ashley! Scarlett can’t get any warmth and security from Ashley. It is Rhett who has strong arms to hold her, a broad chest to pillow her tired head, jeering laughter to pull her affairs into proper perspective. And he completely understands her, because he, like her, sees truth as truth, unobstructed by impractical notions of honor, sacrifice, or high belief in human nature.
 For years Scarlett has had her back against the stone wall of Rhett’s love. Rhett loves her, understands her, ready to help her. Rhett at the bazaar reads her impatience in her eyes and leads her out the reel; Rhett helps her out of the bondage of mourning; Rhett conveys her through the fire and explosions the night Atlanta fell; Rhett lends her the money, Rhett comforts her when she wakes up in the nights crying with fright from her horrible dreams. No man does such things without loving a woman to distraction. 英语作文