The former can always be satisfied or expected to be satisfied, and its good or sad characteristics can be understood. And Rhett, a rich man who is romantic and single-minded, has a bad smile, and most people think he is a rascal. His understanding of everyone is terrible.
He can see through Scarlett's lies and know that she has always loved Ashley, even more clearly than Scarlett. What she thinks of love in her heart is actually just her obsession with the possessiveness of her lover when she was young, so he can marry Scarlett and do his best to give her extravagant love. He loved Scarlett, but after Melanie died, he ruthlessly decided to leave her forever. Yes, forever. For example, in the year when Allerant was surrounded by bonfires, he made her deep in the darkness and Mud join the losing Confederate army without hesitation, regardless of her own life and death or whether she was surrounded by the enemy.
Scarlett's helplessness is like being abandoned in the wilderness again. When she learned that she loved Rhett, she put down all her dignity in this life and said to him, "I love you." I fell in love with you a few years ago. "
He just paused a little and replied coldly, "That's too bad for you."
Why is it unfortunate?
There is a sentence in the novel: "If he had known Ashley earlier, she wouldn't have fallen in love with her. If she had known Rhett earlier, she wouldn't have lost him. "
The protagonists Rhett and Ashley in the novel seem to be very different from Scarlett's fate. In fact, they have one thing in common: nostalgia for the past world.
Ashley's nostalgia is immersed in the past life, unwilling and afraid to face the bleak reality, while Rhett uses opportunistic means to gain a foothold in the new world with wealth, and then treats the old civilization in a mocking way.
He said that the soldiers who took part in the war were all fools, showing contempt for the spirit of a gentleman. He made friends with Yankees and speculators who destroyed southern civilization, and had shares in brothels. The nobles thought he was deviant, sinister and disdainful to associate with him, but he showed indifference.
So, when he first met Scarlett in Twelve Oaks, and saw her boldly pursuing Ashley, who was about to get engaged, and broke the vase after being rejected, he felt that he had found a "lady" partner who rebelled against the old civilization. He appreciates her selfishness, but he also loves her suffering and is willing to do everything to love her. He said that she was like a wayward child and needed love.
He loves Scarlett very much, which is obvious in novels and movies.
After Melanie's death, when Scarlett finally understood her love for him and announced it loudly as he wished, he decided to leave and simply said to her, "Even the most eternal love will dry up."
This is not angry words-no matter how much Scarlett pleads, how painful she is, and how stubbornly she pours her love for Ashley into Rhett, he will never turn back.
On the ruins of southern civilization, although he denied it, he did have a deep love for it, which was embedded in the bone marrow. This kind of love, which is divorced from ordinary feelings, is almost the light that is born with the soul.
For it, when the defeat is decided, he can abandon Scarlett, abandon the accumulated money, join the southern army, give his name to the southern civilization that he has always despised, and prepare to live and die with him; To this end, he showed kindness to Melanie and expected to be approved by Scarlett's black mammy. In the same way, it is easy to understand that he abandoned Scarlett again and made up with his family who broke off relations in the past.
The brutal war tore the previously undiscovered sense of security, as natural as air. In a few years, the house was burned down, and the relatives who fought in the war could never come back, leaving the pampered nobles in a cruel situation of starvation. The endless quiet life disappeared, replaced by poverty and gray suffering. I think in the novel, men's sense of security comes from only two things: career and kind women.
In the civil war, the cause that southerners fought for was undoubtedly a failure. They only rely on the gentle love of women. It is such tenderness that brings them into this world, nurtures them to become gentlemen, and it is also such love, taking care of housework for them, healing their wounds and inheriting their descendants. When such love disappears, that is, such women die, their spiritual world collapses, and it is not surprising that fear floods in. So in novels and movies, we see Mr. Hao who is crazy after Allen's death, Ashley who is confused and helpless and holds the gloves that Melanie once wore, and Rhett who wants to leave immediately after Melanie's death.
Their love for Allen or Melanie shows the child's attachment to his mother. Now, their death has taken away the only warmth left in their past world, and they have been defeated without any suspense.
Scarlett is beautiful, smart, strong, brave, selfish and vain. She is a wise woman with rich feelings, but what she lacks is the warmth that her mother tried to convey to her but failed to convey.
She was educated in the south since she was a child, but she is like an unruly weed in a flower field, not like delicate petals falling in the rain. She will always have the strength to withstand wind and rain and thrive. She is a beautiful weed, which can be as beautiful as a flower after dressing up, but what she lacks is the gentle and fragrant fragrance.
Smell has nothing to do with survival, but it is indeed the only connection between the defeated and the past world.
Melanie died, this beautiful and tenacious connection was broken, and the temple collapsed. The prodigal son, like Rhett, no longer has the courage to face real life. He just wants to go back to his relatives and ride a horse to hunt leisurely in the Woods. He said that he was 45 years old and had no strength to kill second time around. Because there is no crack, he wants to find or recall the slow sense of security in that world.
After all, he loves the world with his soul so much that he can't completely abandon it.
At the end of the novel, Scarlett still doesn't understand Rhett. She believes that Rhett's love can be saved by her beauty and sincerity, but she just transfers her innocent love from Ashley to Rhett.
But this similarity between the two people can easily stop Scarlett's offensive. Ashley can, and so can Rhett-they all love the past world too much.
I think the perfect woman may be the combination of Melanie and Scarlett. Melanie is gentle, kind and friendly, but she lacks charm. Scarlett is beautiful, brave and strong, but selfish and vain.
If Melanie and Allen have the ability to pass on that tenderness to Scarlett before they die, even if it is only half, Rhett may hug Scarlett tightly and tell her his love for her, and he will not let go.
However, at least at the end of the novel, Scarlett is not so gentle. If Scarlett hadn't transferred her stubborn love to Rhett, she would be young, beautiful, smart and rich, and with strong will, she would undoubtedly have a good life.
Rhett knows this too well, so he says, "That's bad luck for you."
He knows everything, Scarlett's ideas, and the value of southern civilization. Before the war, he knew that the southern army would be defeated. After the defeat, the northern army controlled persecution, and he knew that the south would win its legal rights. He knew that the best investment period was when civilization was destroyed and rebuilt, and he made a lot of money. A shrewd and pragmatic man like him still resolutely chose to be buried in the grave of southern civilization.
What a terrible person this is! When he knew that Scarlett loved Ashley, he loved her too, and he planned to wait patiently for Scarlett to forget Ashley. Of course, Scarlett didn't. He was really sad. He loved Scarlett and suffered a lot silently, but he didn't get anything in return for a long time, so when Scarlett finally said that he loved him, he could only calmly spread out his hand: "Even eternal love will dry up."
Although it was unintentional, success turned into naked revenge. He knew Scarlett didn't understand this, and she must have thought she could make him change his mind, just as she could make Ashley admit that she loved her-but it was in vain!
Ashley denied that he loved her. He has always loved Melanie, and Rhett will not come back, because he and Ashley have the same feelings for the lost days!
Gong brings wind.
Gone with the Wind
In the novel, the plantation of conceited southerners has gone with the wind, and so has the beautiful spirit of gentlemen and ladies in the past, that is to say, a civilization with a long history has gone with the wind.
Ashley's desire for Scarlett's body, Rhett's love for Scarlett's spirit-everything-have been blowing in the wind.
But at the thought that Scarlett hasn't come out yet, everyone either chooses to escape or face it. Only she still lives in obsession-both her obsession and her love have survived.
"Tomorrow is another day!"
She said. But being bothered by Rhett's obsession is like being bothered by Ashley. She faces the reality, but she can't see clearly. How much happiness she will miss in the future!
If it weren't for Ashley's obsession, she could clearly see her love for Rhett and certainly wouldn't lose her. There are always failures and regrets in life. She is only 28 years old, beautiful, charming, pragmatic and intelligent. Of course, she may meet new happiness again, but at that time, she was trapped by Rhett's obsession.
Time and time again, her youth will be exhausted, and she can only regret it again and again. She always said, "I won't think about these things now until I can bear it." But one day, she will go to the opposite side. When all things add up, she will clearly see her mistakes and know that she was so close to happiness.
I dare not think. I hold on to this trap. Once I fall into it, I will fall into it like a swamp, and people don't know it. They'll think it's voluntary They won't call for help, because swamps can provide dark shade in the hot sun.
I am an obsessive-compulsive disorder patient, and I am often tortured by obsessive-compulsive disorder. However, sometimes, I don't even know what my obsession is, which ones should be kept and which ones will devour my soul. Like Scarlett, she didn't even know that her stubborn love for Ashley had been transferred to Rhett.