It all goes with the wind

Text/Shi Jingyun

The American female writer Margaret Mitchell is a writer who has become famous in the world and has a place in the literary world in just one work. Her only work, Gone with the Wind, became the best-selling American novel upon its publication, and since its publication in 1936, Gone with the Wind, a history of American Civil War romance, has broken all the publishing records of the time. In 1937, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize. It was subsequently adapted into the film Gone with the Wind, which is also a classic in the history of American cinema.

I prefer to watch "Gone with the Wind" than the movie "Gone with the Wind". In "Gone with the Wind", Hao Scarlett, Brad, Melanie, Wesili... These characters, let me not forget for a long time, Hao Scarlett, Brad's love and the departure of the last two, let me sigh. I personally thought more margaret. Mitchell is the prototype of Scarlett Hao, if she did not have so much life experience, she would not have been able to write such a complex and wonderful "Gone with the Wind" in any way. The book chronicles the American Civil War and describes the painful metamorphosis of the American South from slavery to capitalism in the mid-19th century. But its theme is not war, Margaret. Mitchell had no intention of becoming a commentator on American history. "Gone with the Wind" is also like Brad's love for Scarlett Hao, which passes away with the wind. What he had wanted to protect for many years finally slipped and fell like sand between his fingers, and they finally returned to dust and soil, becoming two unrelated strangers.

Brad and Scarlett, they are the two people with the most similar personalities. They only listen to the call of the heart, dare to face and challenge the world's norms, and the most attractive and touching place in them is the truth and freshness of their character and behavior. Because they are a kind of person in their bones, Brad knows Scarlett so well, he goes straight into her heart and sees through her goodness: she is enthusiastic and unpretentious; she never knows fear, never escapes the harsh reality; she is brave and strong, and she struggles to take on the responsibility of maintaining the family's livelihood in the face of the changes in the lives of ordinary people brought about by the American Civil War. But he also sees through her badness: she is willful, selfish, cold, and can disregard anyone's feelings in order to achieve her own interests. She can rob her friend's fiancé in order to get revenge on Wei Xili, or she can rob her sister's fiancé for her livelihood; she is confused and stubborn to guard the unrealistic, hopeless love, do her spring and autumn dreams, never wake up, but in reality, but rely on Brad's love to survive again and again. Brad, on the other hand, seems cynical and drunk on the surface, but has an unfathomable, powerful and hard heart. He was at ease with the handling of real-life affairs; he admired the tolerant, humble, and kind Melanie and did his best to help; he waited and looked forward to Scarlett's love in his heart for many years, but watched her get married twice, and although he finally married Scarlett, he also found the final estrangement between the two. Until his heart was tired and people were tired, he picked up the fluctuating and fruitless emotions and resolutely left. Brad and Scarlett Are Two Too Complicated people to know whether to say good or bad. Perhaps, this is the real person, human nature is the way it is, good and evil beauty and ugliness are entangled with each other, it is difficult to separate them.

Actually, Margaret. Mitchell has the characteristics of Scarlett Hao, and the characters she writes have archetypes, which can be

Her autobiography "The Road to Tara" found the shadow of all her characters in "Gone with the Wind", her life era, life trajectory, her personality, thinking mode, and style of doing things are all Hao Scarlett.

Margaret. Mitchell had predicted that she would die in a car accident. In the end, it is really "a slur". On the night of August 11, 1949, Mitchell parked his car opposite the Arts Theater, and they were ready to go to a movie. Walking across the street is quite dangerous, perhaps in a hurry, when she helped her husband Marsh cross the road, a car came at high speed, she left Marsh in the middle of the road, but she ran back, already aware of the danger, the driver of the car hurried to the side of the steering wheel, but did not expect that someone would run back. Her death was very puzzling, as if embracing death. She was only forty-nine years old.

Everything goes with the wind, as the title of her book "Gone with the Wind"