Title: Why Scarlett was gone with the wind?Outline:1. The Virtues and Defects in Scarlett’s Character1.1 Virtues1.1.1 Rebellion against Social RestrictionsScarlett O’Hara behaves quite differently from the women in the southern American society in that period. Female, at that time, are taught to be gentle and elegant. They not only should be forced to obey all the conversations that a gentlewoman should know, but also wait for men’s appreciation and love passively. Even in love, they could not tell anybody their own ideas.While Scarlett hates the so-called traditional regulation. Instead, she wants to be herself: She shows her indifference for the affected manners: “I’m tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I’m tired of acting like I don’t eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I’m tired of saying someday I’m going to do and say everything I want to do and say, and if people don’t lik e it, I don’t care.” She will not confine herself nor live below men, she dresses up beautifully and wants to handle men around her and loves to be the focus of men.At that time, marriage is planed by parents and daughters have no choices but to accept parents’ arrangement. When Scarlett is young, her father wants her to marry one of the twins who will give their family a big house,a broader orchard garden. But she is brave to pursue her love and happiness actively, when she falls in love with Ashley, she confesses to him and gets ready to elope with him.Her emotion is so powerful that she tries her best to make him feel and understand her love.Unlike other girls who have a little food graciously at the party only to catch men. Scarlett never let herself be hunger. She just wants to be herself and ignores the public scold.In a men’s world, women are not allowed to have their own job. On the contrary, she becomes stronger and has her own business after the Civil War. In order to protect her family and servants, she manage to preserve Tara by any kind of means. Besides, she takes charge of a sawmill successfully,emploies prisoners to save money and even runs business with Yankees.She lives her own free life throughout her life no matter how hard living is or what people talk about her. Her amazing deeds surprise people in the world and proves that women could also do business as sagacious as men.1.1.2 Obstinate and Indomitable1.1.3 Brave, Independent and ResponsibleScarlett is very determined to make her own decision.Her mother and her nanny always tell her to learn rules and regulations of being a fair lady. But she is brave to break the code of ethic. She defies her father’s wishful thinking of her marriage and she shows her affection for Ashley boldly. Particularly, her love is refused, she still stick to be persisting and being strong-willed. In the period of the Civil War, Scarlett keeps her promise to Ashley to manage to deliver a baby boy of Melanie (Ashley’s wife) safely by herself under the tough situation.When she comes back home with Melanie and her son, she finds that everything is in ruin. There is no food and drink but hunger and poverty. Her gentle, amiable mother, has died; her father has turned to a terribly old man with schizophrenia. Now he is like a child, no longer a strong man, the backbone of T ara. Both of her sisters are ill in bed; slaves have run away, with only three darkies still remaining. There remains not enough food, and all their cotton has been burnt to ashes. Meanwhile, their lot of Confederate cash becomes worthless. The most important is that she, Scarlettt Hamilton, will be responsible to continue to carry her burdens and rebuild T ara——a red earth where she could get strength from. She could not give it up.“She belonged to the red acres far more than they could ever belong to her. Her roots went deep into the blood–colored soil and sucked up life, as did the cotton”.The next morning Scarlett forces her to endure body’s stiffness and sore, goes out to search for some food. In the Negroes’ garden patches of Wilkes’ plantation; she is licked down by hunger and tiredness. When she arises at last and sees again the black ruins of the plantation, her head is raised high and something t hat is “youth and beauty and potential tenderness” has gone out of her face forever. The lazy luxury of the old days is gone, never to return. “There was no going back and she was going forward throughout the South for fifty years there would be bitter–eye d woman who looked backward… But Scarlett was never to look back” At that moment hunger grows at her empty stomach again and Scarlett says aloud: “As god is my witness...the Yankees aren’t going to lick me.I’m going to live through this, and when it’s over I’m never going to be hunger again.Neither, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill—as God is my witness, I’m never going to be hunger again”. This is her dauntlessness. What an announcement of struggle!Indeed it is a day that is worthy of celebration. That symbolizes the birth of a completely new woman, a heroine in the old time. From then on, the shell of hardness, which has begun to form about her heart when she lies in the slave garden, is slowly thickening. As for her courage and fieriness, Scarlett kills a thieving Yankees soldier, imperturbably and determinately—right before the Yankee’s shoot.1.2 Defects1.2.1 Egocentric and GreedyDue to the pretty and charming appearance, Scarlett is brought up in a set of thousands of pet. All who meet her are enchanted by her. When she is young, she loves to deck herself up for the dancing party because she always feels fascinated by the luxuriant dresses and beautiful jewelry. No matter where she goes, she would like to be the center of the world. She realizes that the realistic life is based on profit and convenience.Therefore, she attach importance to money and benefit.Her three marriages are related with this intense desire. Scarlett marries her first husband just because: he has a lot of money , and he hasn’t any parents to bother me and he lives in Atlanta. And if I married him right away, it would show Ashley that I did not carea rap that I was only flirting with him. And it would just kill Honey. She had never, nevercatch another beau and everybody’s laugh fit to die at her, and it would hurt Melanie, because she loves Charles so much, and it would hurt Stu and Brent.” From her words, we can see how egocentric and self-important she is. When she becomes a young widow, she is sad and depressed not because she loves Charles but she could not be allowed to dance at the ball for a long time. Luckily, she is invited to attend a charity party to raise donations for the war. Regardless of disproval and criticism of Charles’ friends andrelatives, she accepts Rhett’s invitation to dance with him because she dies for dancing.She only cares for herself.•She takes her sister’s love to gain enough money for the tax pay of Tara which she begins her second marriage. Her lust is forever cannot be met. Since her husband Frank was sick, she wants to be a successful businesswoman with the aid of his finance. She manages a sawmill whose workers are convicts that paid less money. It’s more easy to get money from the poor, she thinks. In order to expand the business, she even chooses Yankees to be cooperative partner regardless public scandal. Land suffer war•Scarlett doesn’t love Rhett at all. After she finds that Rhett loves her so deeply and heartily that he gives her everything she could wish for, she marries him finally. She is so selfish and ungrateful that she doesn’t cherish all the happiness Rhett brings to her and even acted so cold to him which make him miserable and agony. And she still lovesAshley persistently.1.2.2 Blind to Pursue Love and FortuneIn Scarlett’s sight, Ashley is handsome, gentle and soft. He doesn’t like other boys, who were always indulging themselves in gambling, party and such absurd things. Ashley is quiet, he loves poetry and music but he has win Scarlett’s father in gambling once. He doesn’t like other boys, who were too willing to hang around waiting for Scarlett’s favors, he aloof from her. Scarlett doesn’t understand him any more. The more she can’tunderstand him, the more she loves him. She sees him as a secret and wants to get the answer. As far as I’m concerned, the reason why Scarlett falls in love with Ashley is that she sees him as a challenge. Scarlett is very energetic, she is willing to take challenge and Ashley is so fresh for her. May be she wants to conquer him to show her ability that all the men will fall in love with her. Ashley doesn’t dare to take adventure; he marriesMelanie because she looks alike him. He is so different from other men that he is weak and doesn’t show interest in her. Scarlett wants to be the center of the world everywhere she appears. She loves to have an attraction for every man. So she is gone on Ashley.She thinks of marriage as trifling business. After being rejected by Ashley, She marries Charles in order to hurt him and make other girls jealous her days marked with a white stone. After Charles’s death, according to the traditions among the Southerners, a widow should wear long black dresses and is forbidden to appear in the public always show sadness and agony. However, Scarlett is eager for freedom and vanity, she wants to dance at every party. Finally, she accepts Rhett’s invitation to dance with him afterremaining a widow for one year in spite of the old restrcitions secular vision. After the Civil War, she marries her sister’s love Frank in order to take advantage of his property to pay taxes on Tara. She cares less about her sister’s feeling. With the help of Frank’s finance, she begins to be in charge of a sawmill , Her mind is so strong and selfish that she doesn’t care others’ rebuke. Than, Frank’s death boosts her inside rebellion against the society.She becomes more adamant and independent. She marries Rhett for the sake of endless splendour. At first, she doesn’t love Rhett, she pays no attention on him. Instead, she just considers her own feeling and what she could get.1.2.3 Vain and Naive3 The Reasons for Formation of Scarlett’s Character3.1 The Exterior Reason3.2 The Internal Reason。