Many people don't like Scarlett in Gone with the Wind and think she's selfish.
Indeed, what she did was always unlovable: she was very good at using her beauty to attract many men to surround her and do things for her; she designed to take away the object of her sister's love in order to keep her home, but when her husband died for himself, she did not show any emotion; she knew that her employees were enslaved, but for the sake of money, she still chose to hire prisoners to reduce costs...
Behind her beautiful face is a shrewd little head melon, always calculating whether this is good for me, how can it benefit me more, and then stop at nothing to achieve the goal. This, of course, is related to the family environment in which she grew up, and the doting of her parents has developed her wayward, self-centered personality.
But one of scarlett's better than others is that she doesn't pretend, doesn't hide, doesn't disguise. She didn't care that others scolded her and hated her, she didn't think of playing a good wife and mother, a good woman from the beginning, and she didn't regard fame as life, unlike other people of the same class, who regarded fame as the supreme pursuit, even if they secretly did something unseemly, ostensibly to try to maintain their status as a lady and a gentleman.
From this point of view, Scarlett is still relatively real. This is also the reason why some readers and viewers do not hate this woman. Because, that's not what the saying goes: goodness in disguise is more terrifying than real ferocity. However, Scarlett's selfishness did make her pay a heavy price.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > selfishness makes her focus only on the immediate and ignore the long-term</h1>
When people are selfish, it is easy to regard the interests of the moment and the enjoyment of the present as a lifetime. Many times, when Scarlett ignores others and satisfies herself, she does not think about the consequences in the future.
For example, although she has been pursuing Ashley, she has always loved and not been able to love, and in the process, she has also experienced three marriages. Every marriage is a marriage relationship established during the death of her husband; although she designed to take the love of her sister and save the Tara Manor, the guilt later, as well as the second blow brought by the widow, made her miserable; she knew that her girlfriend and Ashley had a very happy life, but she never gave up seducing Ashley, seizing the opportunity to confess to him...
In fact, Scarlett is not very happy, although she will calculate and calculate, but fate did not give her a smooth life, so that in the end, although Scarlett married Barry, who had always loved her, but even this bit of luck was consumed by her, Brad finally couldn't stand her, left her, and her beloved daughter died unfortunately, and in the end, she was left alone...
Although all this cannot be attributed to her selfishness, indirectly, there is a large part of the reason for selfishness.
It is true that each of us is more or less selfish, but it is a little less cute to pay too much attention to ourselves, to the point of ignoring the interests of others, and even to the point of harming others and ourselves.
The organs calculated too cleverly, but they mistook Qingqing's life. Selfish and narrow-minded people are always overly pursuing, being too picky, and laborious. They want to be satisfied with the present too much, and they can't care about the long term, so it is often this kind of person who will be taught a lesson by reality, because the long-term interests are the biggest and most worthy of investment.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > selfishness makes her focus only on herself, so that she misses true love</h1>
Brad really loves Scarlett, but Scarlett didn't realize at first that she loved Brad, she thought she loved Ashley, but in fact, whether she acted unconsciously during the day or cried out at night when she slept and dreamed, it was always Brad, and only Brad. This is the subconscious mind, and it cannot deceive people.
Only after the baptism of time, after a period of time, Will Scarlett understand or wake up to the fact that her true love is Brad. But by the time she woke up, it was too late, and Brad's heart had been wounded and she was exhausted.
From beginning to end, selfishness blinded Scarlett's heart, for love, she is still just growing, her mentality is always focused on survival, how to make herself better, about love, all she thinks about is use. She was used to her own face, used to the low knees of men, and Ashley, whom she had been pursuing, did not respond to her, and she actually had no idea what it was like to be true love.
In contrast, Brad understands very well that he understands that Scarlett is the same kind of person as himself, that he is the kind of man who loves you more and more restrained, that love is more intense but more careless. But in fact, he always appeared in time when Scarlett encountered difficulties, and he would not kidnap Scarlett with love, he always encouraged Scarlett to be a free person, to be a person who pursued herself. His love is not possessive, but constantly giving. This is true love.
Scarlett woke up too late, and by the time she really realized, she had already tortured everyone around her.
However, although Scarlett's biggest feature is selfishness, we don't need to completely deny this person, because in that era, such a woman was already very courageous and innovative.
In Scarlett's time, women and men were not equal, and women as appendages were often ignored, had no voice of their own, and were considered weak, mediocre and incompetent. Scarlett's appearance, for better or worse, she single-handedly broke this worldly view, proved the strength of women, women's creativity, and let people no longer underestimate women, has been a great success.
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