Scarlett is the eldest lady of Tara Manor, not very beautiful, but extremely attractive, and the men of the town are almost fascinated by her.
Scarlett's mother, Ellen, came from an aristocratic family in France, was very tall, an elegant, sad woman. Her father, Gerald, was an Irishman with neither a door nor a fortune, and was not very tall. Although Gerald later worked hard to become the owner of the plantation and had a lot of wealth, under normal circumstances, Alan from a prestigious family looked down on Gerald. But Ellen's crush, her bohemian cousin, was killed in a fight at the bar, and the cousin's departure took away the flame burning in Alan's heart and her youth. That same year, 15-year-old Allen married himself to Gerald, 43.
Although Gerald understood that all he had gotten was Alan's tender shell, gerald thought he was lucky enough to be middle-aged, wealthy, and to marry a high-blooded wife.
Like her mother, in the 16-year-old fancy years, Scarlett also had a crush that made her feel excited, and the love that Scarlett had in this life was this man: Ashley ——— the son of another farmer, the young master of Twelve Oaks.
Ashley is handsome in appearance, polite, knowledgeable and calm. His interests were widespread, and he was good at entertaining things in the county, such as hunting, gambling, dancing, and talking about politics. He is also the county's premier rider. But what makes Ashley even more different is that he likes to read, write poetry, like music, travel to Europe for three years, and is very knowledgeable. Scarlett fell in love with Ashley from the day she returned from Europe and visited her home.
Unfortunately, "the flowers fall deliberately, the water is merciless", ashley does not like Scarlett. He admired Scarlett's appearance and treated her like a sister, but when it came to finding a lifelong partner, it must be someone as thoughtful, deep, and introverted as he was, and that person was Melanie——— a woman with an ordinary appearance who was connected to Ashley's heart.
When Scarlett learned that Ashley was going to marry Melanie, she was so shocked that she couldn't believe it, she felt that Ashley wouldn't look at Melanie anyway. Moreover, she thinks that Ashley loves her the most in her heart, and she naively thinks that Ashley may be too frightened by her beauty to confess to herself, and that Ashley will ask her to be his wife if she lets Ashley know that she loves him too.
So, after a long night of torment and heart-wrenching, Scarlett suddenly made a bold decision to confess to Ashley, and delusionally that they would leave everything behind and elope together. At the thought of this, Scarlett was ecstatic, as if their happy life was at hand.
But the reality is harsh, and it always likes to reach out and hit those who are delusional.
At the twelve oaks banquet, Scarlett survived the luncheon and dinner, painstakingly avoiding the crowd, and finally found the opportunity to be alone with Ashley. When she plucked up the courage to tell Ashley the secret of her heart, when she took the initiative to express her deep love to Ashley, she was unbelievably rejected.
Ashley told her that they were two completely different types of people who could not enter into marriage because a marriage based on love alone would not be happy. Melanie was in love with him, they understood each other, and Melanie was the soul mate in his life.
But Scarlett didn't understand, she didn't understand why Ashley obviously liked her and why she didn't marry her, she felt pain, she was furious. Until Scarlett slapped Ashley hard in anger, until Ashley kissed Scarlett's hand lightly and turned away with wordless sadness, Scarlett did not understand where she failed.
Indeed, Scarlett, who rarely spends her mind on books and is powerless to learn, is enough to conquer men with beautiful clothes and white skin as a weapon, and at the moment she will not understand where she has failed.
In fact, when she learned that her daughter was in love with Ashley, Scarlett's father had talked to her, "Even if he wants to marry you, even if I agree to this family affair, I will feel unsure in my heart..." "You are with him, and you will never be happy... Only people of the same type who are married have happiness to speak of. ”
However, the same words, the same truth, even if the father said it, Ashley also said it, but Scarlett just did not understand.
When people are in extreme pain and despair, they often make irrational decisions. Less than two weeks after that feast, Scarlett married Melanie's brother Charles. Poor Scarlett, perhaps her self-esteem was hurt, perhaps she wanted to save face, perhaps she wanted to forget Ashley, but in any case, she repeated the tragedy of her mother's hasty marriage when she was young because of impulsiveness.
Her mother, still in the marriage to get her father's lifelong companionship and care, but Scarlett became a widow less than two months after the marriage, her husband joined the army, before going to the battlefield, because of the disease and died. At this time, Scarlett was not only a widow, but also a mother of a child.
This year, Scarlett was 16 years old.
In this year, the Civil War broke out.
———— the first part of Gone with the Wind
