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1、Gone with the WindPlot summary Gone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War (18611865) and the Reconstruction Era (18651877) that followed the war. The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states,

2、 Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States (the Union) and formed the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president with no ballots from ten Southern states where slavery was legal. A dispute over states rights has arisen6

3、0 involving enslaved African people who were the source of manual labor on cotton plantations throughout the South. The story opens in April 1861 at the Tara plantation, which is owned by a wealthy Irish immigrant family, the OHaras. The reader is told Scarlett OHara, the sixteen-year-old daughter o

4、f Gerald and Ellen OHara, was not beautiful, but54 had an effect on men, especially when she took notice of them. It is the day before the men are called to war, Fort Sumter having been fired on two days earlier. There are brief but vivid descriptions of the South as it began and grew, with backgrou

5、nds of the main characters: the stylish and highbrow French, the gentlemanly English, the forced-to-flee and looked-down-upon Irish. Miss Scarlett learns that one of her many beaux, Ashley Wilkes, is soon to be engaged to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton. She is stricken at heart. The following day at t

6、he Wilkeses barbecue at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett informs Ashley she loves him and Ashley admits he cares for her.60 However, he knows he would not be happily married to Scarlett because of their personality differences. Scarlett loses her temper at Ashley and he silently takes it. Then Scarlett meets R

7、hett Butler, a man who has a reputation as a rogue. Rhett had been alone in the library when Ashley and Scarlett entered, and felt it wiser to not make his presence known while the argument took place. Rhett applauds Scarlett for the unladylike spirit she displayed with Ashley. Infuriated and humili

8、ated, Scarlett tells Rhett, You arent fit to wipe Ashleys boots!60 Upon leaving the library and rejoining the other party guests, she finds out that war has been declared and the men are going to enlist. Seeking revenge for being jilted by Ashley, Scarlett accepts a proposal of marriage from Melanie

9、s brother, Charles Hamilton. They marry two weeks later. Charles dies from measles two months after the war begins. Scarlett is pregnant with her first child. A widow at merely sixteen, she gives birth to a boy, Wade Hampton Hamilton, named after his fathers general.61 As a widow, she is bound by tr

10、adition to wear black and avoid conversation with young men. Scarlett is despondent as a result of the restrictions placed upon her. Melanie, who is living in Atlanta with Aunt Pittypat, invites Scarlett to live with them. In Atlanta, Scarletts spirits revive and she is busy with hospital work and s

11、ewing circles for the Confederate army. Scarlett encounters Rhett Butler again at a dance for the Confederacy. Although Rhett believes the war is a lost cause, he is blockade running for the profit in it. The men must bid for a dance with a lady and Rhett bids one hundred fifty dollars-in gold37 for

12、 a dance with Scarlett. Everyone at the dance is shocked that Rhett would bid for Scarlett, the widow still dressed in black. Melanie smooths things over by coming to Rhetts defense because he is generously supporting the Confederate cause for which her husband, Ashley, is fighting. At Christmas (18

13、63), Ashley has been granted a furlough from the army and returns to Atlanta to be with Melanie. The war is going badly for the Confederacy. Atlanta is under siege (September 1864), hemmed in on three sides,62 it descends into a desperate state while hundreds of wounded Confederate soldiers lie dyin

14、g or dead in the city. Melanie goes into labor with only the inexperienced Scarlett to assist, as all the doctors are busy attending the soldiers. Prissy, a young Negro servant girl, cries out in despair and fear, De Yankees is comin!63 In the chaos, Scarlett, left to fend for herself, cries for the

15、 comfort and safety of her mother and Tara. The tattered Confederate States Army sets flame to Atlanta as they abandon it to the Union Army. Melanie gives birth to a boy named Beauregard, and now they must hurry for refuge. Scarlett tells Prissy to go find Rhett, but she is afraid to go runnin roun

16、in de dahk. Scarlett replies to Prissy, Havent you any gumption?63 Prissy then finds Rhett, and Scarlett begs him to take herself, Wade, Melanie, Beau, and Prissy to Tara. Rhett laughs at the idea, but steals an emaciated horse and a small wagon, and they follow the retreating army out of Atlanta. P

17、art way to Tara, Rhett has a change of heart and he abandons Scarlett to enlist in the army. Scarlett makes her way to Tara without him where she is welcomed on the steps by her father, Gerald. It is clear things have drastically changed: Gerald has lost his mind, Scarletts mother is dead, her siste

18、rs are sick with typhoid fever, the field slaves left after Emancipation, the Yankees have burned all the cotton and there is no food in the house. The long tiring struggle for post-war survival begins that has Scarlett working in the fields. There are so many hungry people to feed and so little foo

19、d. There is the ever present threat of the Yankees who steal and burn, and at one point, Scarlett kills a Yankee marauder with a single shot from Charless pistol leaving a bloody pit where the nose had been.64 A long succession of Confederate soldiers returning home stop at Tara to find food and res

20、t. Two men stay on, an invalid Cracker, Will Benteen, and Ashley Wilkes, whose spirit is broken. Life at Tara slowly begins to recover when a new threat appears in the form of new taxes on Tara. Scarlett knows only one man who has enough money to help her pay the taxes, Rhett Butler. She goes to Atl

21、anta to find him only to learn Rhett is in jail. As she is leaving the jailhouse, Scarlett runs into Frank Kennedy, who is betrothed to Scarletts sister, Suellen, and running a store in Atlanta. Soon realizing Frank also has money, Scarlett hatches a plot and tells Frank that Suellen has changed her

22、 mind about marrying him. Thereafter Frank succumbs to Scarletts feminine charms and he marries her two weeks later knowing he has done something romantic and exciting for the first time in his life.65 Always wanting Scarlett to be happy and radiant, Frank gives her the money to pay the taxes on Tar

23、a. While Frank has a cold and is being pampered by Aunt Pittypat, Scarlett goes over the accounts at Franks store and finds many of his friends owe him money. Scarlett is now terrified about the taxes and decides money, a lot of it, is needed. She takes control of his business while he is away and h

24、er business practices leave many Atlantans resentful of her. Then with a loan from Rhett she buys a sawmill and runs the lumber business herself, all very unladylike conduct. Much to Franks relief, Scarlett learns she is pregnant, which curtails her activities for awhile. She convinces Ashley to com

25、e to Atlanta and manage the mill, all the while still in love with him. At Melanies urging, Ashley takes the job at the mill. Melanie soon becomes the center of Atlanta society, and Scarlett gives birth to a girl named Ella Lorena. Ella for her grandmother Ellen, and Lorena because it was the most f

26、ashionable name of the day for girls.66 The state of Georgia is under martial law and life there has taken on a new and more frightening tone. For protection, Scarlett keeps Franks pistol tucked in the upholstery of the buggy. Her trips alone to and from the mill take her past a shanty town where cr

27、iminal elements live. On one evening when she is coming home from the mill, Scarlett is accosted by two men who attempt to rob her, but she escapes with the help of Big Sam, the former negro foreman from Tara. Attempting to avenge the assault on his wife, Frank and the Ku Klux Klan raid the shanty t

28、own whereupon Frank is shot dead. Scarlett is a widow for a second time. Rhett puts on a charade to keep the men who participated in the shanty town raid from being arrested. He walks into the Wilkeses home with Hugh Elsing and Ashley, singing and pretending to be drunk. Yankee officers outside the

29、home question Rhett and he tells them he and the other men had been at Belle Watlings brothel that evening, a story Belle later confirms to the officers. The men are indebted to Rhett for saving them, and his Scallawag reputation among them improves a notch, but the mens wives, with the exception of

30、 Melanie, are livid at owing their husbands lives to Belle Watling. Frank Kennedy lies cold in a coffin in the quiet stillness of the parlor in Aunt Pittypats home. Scarlett is in a remorseful state. She is swigging brandy from Aunt Pittys swoon bottle when Rhett comes to call. She tells Rhett tearf

31、ully, Im afraid Ill die and go to hell, to which Rhett replies, Maybe there isnt a hell.19 Before she can cry any further, Rhett asks Scarlett to marry him saying, I always intended having you, one way or another.19 Scarlett declares she doesnt love him and doesnt want to be married again. However,

32、Rhett kisses her passionately, and in the heat of the moment she agrees to marry him. One year later, Scarlett and Rhett announce their engagement. News of the impending marriage is the talk of the town. Mr. and Mrs. Butler honeymoon in New Orleans, spending lavishly. Upon their return to Atlanta, t

33、he couple take up residence in the bridal suite at the National Hotel while their new home on Peachtree Street is being constructed. Scarlett chooses a modern Swiss chalet style home like the one she saw in Harpers Weekly, and red wallpaper, thick red carpet and black walnut furniture for the interi

34、or. Rhett describes the house as an architectural horror.67 Shortly after the Butlers move into their new home, the sardonic jabs between them turn into full-blown quarrels. Scarlett wonders why Rhett married her. Then with real hate in her eyes67 she tells Rhett she is going to have a baby, a baby

35、she does not want.Wade is seven years old in 1869 when his sister, Eugenie Victoria, named after two queens, arrives in the world. She has blue eyes like Gerald OHara and Melanie gives her the nickname, Bonnie Blue, in reference to the Bonnie Blue Flag of the Confederacy. When Scarlett is feeling we

36、ll again, she makes a trip to the mill and talks to Ashley, who is alone in the office. In the conversation with him, she comes away believing Ashley still loves her and is jealous of her intimate relations with Rhett, which excites her. Scarlett returns home and tells Rhett she does not want more c

37、hildren. From then on, Scarlett and Rhett sleep in separate bedrooms, and when Bonnie is two years old, she sleeps in a little bed beside Rhetts bed (with the light on all night long because she is afraid of the dark). Rhett turns his attention towards Bonnie, dotes on her, spoils her, and worries a

38、bout her reputation when she is older. Melanie is giving a surprise birthday party for Ashley. Scarlett goes to the mill to keep Ashley there until party time, a rare opportunity for Scarlett to see Ashley alone. When she sees him, she feels sixteen again, a little breathless and excited.68 Ashley t

39、ells her how pretty she looks, and they reminisce about the days when they were young and talk about their lives now. Suddenly Scarletts eyes fill with tears and Ashley holds her head against his chest. Then in the doorway of the office Ashley sees standing his sister, India Wilkes. Before the party

40、 has even begun rumors of an adulterous relationship between Ashley and Scarlett have started, and Rhett and Melanie have heard the gossip. Melanie refuses to accept any criticism of her sister in-law and India Wilkes is banished from the Wilkeses home for it, causing a rift in the family. Rhett, mo

41、re drunk than Scarlett has ever seen him, returns home the evening of the party long after Scarlett. His eyes are bloodshot and his mood is dark and violent. He enjoins Scarlett to drink with him. Not wanting Rhett to know she is fearful of him, Scarlett throws back a drink and gets up from her chai

42、r to go back to her bedroom. But Rhett stops her and pins her shoulders to the wall. Scarlett tells Rhett he is jealous of Ashley and Rhett accuses Scarlett of crying for the moon53 over Ashley. He tells Scarlett they could have been happy together saying, for I loved you and I know you.53 Rhett the

43、n takes Scarlett in his arms and carries her up the stairs to her bedroom where passion envelops them. The following morning Rhett leaves town with Bonnie and Prissy and stays away for three months. Scarlett finds herself missing him, but she is still unsure if Rhett loves her, having told her so wh

44、en he was drunk. She learns she is pregnant with her fourth child. On the day Rhett arrives home, Scarlett waits for him at the top of the stairs. She wonders if Rhett will kiss her, but to Scarletts irritation, he does not. He tells her she looks pale. Scarlett tells him she is pale because she is

45、pregnant. Rhett sarcastically asks her if the father is Ashley. She calls Rhett a cad and tells him no woman would want a baby of his. To which Rhett responds, cheer up, maybe youll have a miscarriage.69 At that comment, Scarlett lunges at Rhett, but he side steps and she tumbles backwards down the

46、stairs. She is seriously ill for the first time in her life, having lost her child and broken her ribs. Rhett is remorseful, believing he has killed her. Sobbing and drunk, Rhett buries his head in Melanies lap and confesses he had been a jealous cad. Scarlett, who is thin and pale, goes to Tara tak

47、ing Wade and Ella with her, to regain her strength and vitality from the green cotton fields of home.70 When she returns a healthy woman to Atlanta, she sells the mills to Ashley. She finds Rhetts attitude has noticeably changed. He is sober, kinder, polite and seemingly disinterested. Though she mi

48、sses the old Rhett at times, Scarlett is content to leave well enough alone. Now Bonnie is four years old in 1873. A spirited and willful child, she has her father wrapped around her finger and giving into her every demand. Even Scarlett is jealous of the attention she gets from him. Rhett rides his

49、 horse around town with Bonnie in front of him, but the household mammy, Mammy, insists it is not fitting for a girl to ride a horse with her dress flying up. Rhett heeds Mammys words and buys Bonnie a Shetland pony, whom she names Mr. Butler, and teaches her to ride sidesaddle. Then Rhett pays a boy named Wash twenty-five cents to teach Mr. Butler to jump over