A woman like a cat. With cat-like eyes, cat-like smile, cat-like pace and cat-like agility. Then, what kind of attitude and experience does this cat-like woman provide us to treat life, love, difficulties and setbacks?
First, she dares to take responsibility when encountering difficulties. Although she wavered, she finally took responsibility. For example, she saved Melanie, revived Tara, and later helped the Ashley family for a long time.
Second, she dares to love and has no regrets. She loved Ashley all her youth, but she didn't give up her efforts until she reached the limit of her ability.
Third, when she finally realized that what she had done before was wrong, she immediately apologized to Rhett and asked for forgiveness.
Generally speaking, Scarlett is a strange girl, a woman without a man. No wonder Rhett, such a great man, fell at her feet. Every time I watch Gone with the Wind, I get different results. When I was young, I hated Scarlett, who was vain and pushy. I liked Melanie, who was pure and kind. I didn't like Rhett Butler, who was glib. I liked Ashley, who was gentle and gentle. I liked the picturesque scenery and rural life in the south, and I didn't like the glitz and debauchery in the north. After watching it many times, I couldn't help admiring Scarlett. Originally she was a weak woman, willful and young. Her first marriage was an impulsive revenge. She married a boy she didn't love and made herself a young widow. The second marriage was for the survival of the family and took away my sister's sweetheart Kennedy. Although Kennedy is already an old man and a half, he is no match for Scarlett. He was helpless in the face of her ruthlessness. In the end, he was shot to get back at the poor white man because Scarlett was almost insulted. Unfortunately, he died in vain, but he never enjoyed Scarlett's love. So Scarlett became a widow again, and she was a rich widow. In that war-torn era, in order to make a promise to Ashley to take care of Melanie, when the northern army was about to capture Atlanta, Scarlett decisively delivered Melanie and found Rhett to break through many obstacles and checkpoints and return to Tara, his hometown in the country. When she was hungry and cold, she suffered multiple blows from her mother's death, her father's dementia, her home being robbed and poverty. She persevered, took the lead in farming, ordered her sister to get up to pick cotton, took care of Melanie and Xiaobo, and supported the family's livelihood. At that time, she was only a little girl in her twenties at most, and she should be a spoiled little girl in her mother's arms. However, in the face of such great difficulties, she did not choose to escape, but bravely shouldered the burden of her family and fought against her fate with perseverance that ordinary people could not match. Whenever I see Scarlett holding a radish and swearing to heaven that she will never let her family suffer and starve again, I always feel that the director's use of light and background is so ingenious and artistic, vividly depicting Scarlett's strong and true inner feelings of longing for stability, survival and prosperity. I think at that time, she had completed the most difficult evolution, from an ugly caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly, free and noble. At that time, Scarlett was like a goddess-the goddess of desire who longed for wealth, and would do anything for it.
Strong and tenacious
No matter in the face of the ruins and smoke of war, the death of mother and father, the poverty and hardship of life or the death of her daughter, she is the strongest and most tenacious, and she is the first to get out of pain and hardship. When Scarlett faced the scarred Taylor Manor, her tenacity and strength made the eldest daughter of this family shoulder the burden of parents. At the end of the film, she firmly told us that tomorrow is another day.
showy
This should be a derogatory term, but Scarlett's vanity seems particularly lovely. Vanity seems to be a compliment to her. A famous model once said, "Girls always have a little vanity, no matter what vanity is." When Scarlett tore off her mother's only relic, the curtain, she would make a beautiful dress with it anyway, and put it on her body to look forward to new clothes. Her vanity made her a seemingly unfilial daughter, but her practice (that is, her vanity) was the only way to save the whole family at that time. Vanity gives the whole family hope of survival, and such vanity should not be considered worth abandoning.
greedy
This should always be a derogatory term. However, Scarlett's greed is not only understandable, but also commendable to some extent. After the war, Taylor Manor was controlled by the Union Army. The death of her mother and the collapse of her father made Scarlett, the eldest daughter of the family, shoulder the burden of "parents". The scarlett family lead a hard life. The war made her poor, and poverty was followed by hunger. However, the most terrible thing is the land that has no money to pay taxes and almost lost its source of livelihood. In order to borrow money to pay taxes, Scarlett seduced her sister's lover and became the proprietress of a small shop. After all this, she understood what kind of society she lived in and the importance of money in this society. Therefore, when she has the money she needs now, she will naturally want to have more money. In the pursuit of "more money", she showed an excellent quality that an early capitalist must have-greed.
Cruelty and selfishness
These two words seem to be derogatory terms for anyone, especially women who take gentleness and kindness as their virtue. However, Scarlett's cruelty and selfishness are commendable to some extent. First of all, in the period of social transformation, people's ideas need to change from traditional ideas to new ones that adapt to social development. Those who can't change their ideas at the first time will lose the initiative to lead the times. Scarlett is a woman who changed her mind at the first time, accepted the new society and social system, new values and new way of life, and became a small capitalist. At this point, she is very remarkable. Moreover, when the capitalist system was just established, selfishness and cruelty were the key to the survival and development of a capitalist. In capitalist society, love for the world has always been a factor that hinders the survival and development of capital itself. At this time, selfishness and cruelty have become the advantages of the strong.
beautiful
Scarlett provides us with an attitude towards love. She is beautiful, but she just uses her beauty properly to get what she likes, and never uses her beauty to play with love, whether it is her own or someone else's love. Scarlett is beautiful, but beauty is not a necessary condition for having love-you may not be as beautiful as Scarlett, but you also have the right to pursue your own love.
To sum up, we have come to the conclusion that:
Scarlett, a woman like a cat, a strong, tenacious, vain, greedy, cruel and selfish woman, is a model of women.