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1、LOGOGone With the WindBy Thomas HuContentsIntroduction for main characters2Plot summary3conclusion4About the author1Gone with the windAbout the authorGone with the windMargaret Mitchell was born in 1900 in Atlanta, Georgia and lived just 49 years. She attended Washinton Seminary in Atlanta and Smith
2、 College in Massachusetts.About the authorGone with the windMargaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta. Her mother, Maybelle Mitchell, was a suffragist and father, Eugene Mitchell, a prominent lawyer and president of the Atlanta Historical Society. Mitchell grew up listening to stories about old Atlanta,
3、 and the battles the Confederate Army had fought there during the American Civil War. At the age of fifteen, she wrote in her journal: “If I were a boy, I would try for West Point, if I could make it, or well Id be a prize fighter anything for the thrills.“ Mitchell graduated from the local Washingt
4、on Seminary and started to study medicine at Smith College in 1918. She had adopted her mothers feminist leanings, which clashed with her fathers conservatism in the new surroundings, she lived fully the Jazz age. CharactersGone with the windCharactersGone with the windShe is The main character of t
5、he novel. She is the daughter of Gerald and Ellen OHara and is accustomed to getting her own way, whether with clothes or boys. She surrounds herself with young men, flirting mercilessly and is not above stealing the beaux of other girls. She is willful, conniving, and yet far more intelligent than
6、well-bred girls are supposed to be.CharactersGone with the windCharactersGone with the windHusband to Melanie Hamilton and object of Scarletts life-long fantasy. He is a true member of the old south who feels unable to cope with the new world.CharactersGone with the windCharactersGone with the windW
7、ife to Ashley Wilkes and sister-in-law to Scarlett. Described by Rhett as the only truly kind person he has ever known. Unable to believe anything bad about people she loves.CharactersGone with the windCharactersGone with the windScarletts lifelong antagonist who is in love with her from the moment
8、he sees her. He is an opportunist willing to take advantage of any situation, but not without kindness or generosity under the right conditions.CharactersGone with the windCharactersGone with the windScarletts childhood nurse and life-long servant and companion. Mammy understands Scarlett better tha
9、n Scarlett understands herself and is remarkably intuitive, but also protective and motherly.CharactersGone with the windScarlettScarlettMelanieMelanieAshleyAshleyRhettRhettPlot SummaryGone with the windShe receives the first shock of her young life when Ashley Wilkes, son of a neighboring plantatio
10、n owner, announces his engagement to his cousin Melanie Hamilton. When she cannot convince Ashley to change his plan, she quickly throws herself at Charles Hamilton who is shocked and thrilled to think that she would even consider him. Plot SummaryGone with the windHer plans are further disrupted wh
11、en war breaks out, taking the young men away as soldiers, and Charles is among the first to die. She spends several years in Atlanta where she tries to enjoy life in her own way in spite of the disapproval of other women of her class.Plot SummaryGone with the windHer life is further complicated by t
12、he presence of Rhett Butler who is known to be a privateer and opportunist and is “not received“ in his own hometown of Savannah. Scarlett admits that she is fond of Rhett, but his candor and frank observations of her character infuriate her whenever he is near.Plot SummaryGone with the windJust whe
13、n Scarlett thinks the war is over and she can finally put Tara to rights, a major crisis comes in the form of new taxes-levied deliberately by the new government administrators and scalawags to try to take Tara away from her. Plot SummaryGone with the windShe returns to Atlanta, hoping to trick Rhet
14、t into marrying her so she will have access to his money. When this fails, she steals her sisters fianc, who happens to have a store and a little money saved toward his wedding. She marries him and takes his savings to pay her taxes. Two weeks after the wedding, she borrows money from Rhett to buy a
15、 lumber mill. Plot SummaryGone with the windScarlett finally marries Rhett who believes he cant get her any other way, and the two have a tempestuous marriage in which Scarlett often fantasizes that Rhett is Ashley. Plot SummaryGone with the windAny chance of salvaging a relationship with Rhett is l
16、ost when their four- year old Bonnie dies in a fall from her pony. When Melanie dies, leaving Scarlett virtually friendless, and then Rhett leaves her, she returns again to Tara. The only thing she still has, and “tomorrow is another day.“Plot SummaryGone with the windPlot SummaryGone with the windPlot SummaryGone with the windDiagramFantasy versus RealityLoss and ChangeSurvivalMajor Major
