1、Hara, a southern belle raised in her fathers white-pillared plantation Tara. A climax of Hollywood, from Director Victor Fleming for MGM, Gone with the Wind is more than a vicissitude, it is also an old, lost culture revisited. It is Old South, which today is no more than a dream remembered. People
2、were once there, living with the high strong slaves songs in the quarters, in security, peace and eternity. Here, Scarlett spends her young maiden years. She is well disciplined by her mother, but her blazing green eyes always betray her covert capricious self; the one who enjoys parties and the sur
3、rounding of beaus. She dreams to marry the noble Ashley Wilkes. The impending war shatters the golden peace of the South, and leaves many lives permanently changed. Plantations, treasures, and honor are ruined. Scarlett is made a most peculiar widow by the war, and then compelled into a second marri
4、age in continuation of her struggle for the salvation of Tara. And her third marriage to Rhett Butler is also jeopardized because of her secret, stubborn ardency for Ashley. In the end of the movie, Scarlett is left only with her Tara, a plantation which symbolizes the culture of the Old South, a pl
5、ace where she could ever gather her strength.Chapter 1 Scarletts Jealousy(Tara is the beautiful homeland of Scarlett, who is now talking with the twins, Brent and Stew, at the door step.)BRENT: What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett. The war is going to start any day now so we wo
6、uld have left college anyhow.STEW: Oh, isnt it exciting, Scarlett? You know those poor Yankees actually want a war? BRENT: Well showem.SCARLETT: Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk is spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isnt going t
7、o be any war. Not going to be any war? Ah, buddy, of course theres going to be a war. If either of you boys says war just once again, Ill go in the house and slam the door. BRENT: But Scarlett honey. Dont you want us to have a war? Wait a minute, Scarlett.ll talk about this. BRENT: No please, well d
8、o anything you say. Well-but remember I warned you. BRENT: Ive got an idea. Well talk about the barbecue the Wilkes are giving over at Twelve Oaks tomorrow. Thats a good idea. Youre eating barbecue with us, arent you, Scarlett? Well, I hadnt thought about that yet, Ill.Ill think about that tomorrow.
9、 And we want all your waltzes, theres first Brent, then me, then Brent, then me again, then Saul. Promise? just love to. Yahoo! If only .if only I didnt have every one of them taken already. Honey, you cant do that to us. How about if we tell you a secret? Secret? Who by? Well, you know Miss Melanie
10、 Hamilton, from Atlanta? Ashley Wilkes cousin? Well shes visiting the Wilkes at Twelve Oaks. Melanie Hamilton, that goody-goody. Who wants no secret about her. BRENT: Well, anyway we heard. That is, they say. BRENT: Ashley Wilkes is going to marry her. You know the Wilkes always marry their cousins.
11、 BRENT: Now do we get those waltzes? Of course. BRENT: It cant be true.Ashley loves me. Scarlett!(Scarlett couldnt accept the fact of Ashleys marriage, she rushes tofind her father. Mr. OHara is just back from a ride.)Mr. OHARA: (To his horse) Theres none in the county can touchyou, and none in the
12、state. Paw? How proud of yourself you are! Well, it is Scarlett OHara. So, youve been spying onme. And like your sister Sue Ellen, youll be telling your mother onme, that I was jumping again. Oh, Paw, you know Im no tattle like Sue Ellen. But itdoes seem to me that after you broke your knee last year jumping thatsame fence.ll not have me own daughter telling me what I shalljump and not jump. Its my own neck, so it is. All right Paw, you jump what you please. How are theyall over at Twelve Oaks? The Wilkes? Oh, what you expect, with the barbecuetomorrow and talking, nothing but war. Oh bothe
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