us and candid. These characters make Scarlett be scolded much by critics, “be different and be damned”(Margaret, 663).
Ⅰ.Description of Scarlett’s Special Characters and Styles
Before the Civil War, Scarlett lives in a nearly perfect family. A gentle mother, a rich father, and a black mummy look after her well, and they make her a beautiful but spoiled girl. On the other hand, she’s clever, diligent, brave and stubborn. Owing to these characters, her actions make her very welcome in gentlemen but unwelcome in ladies.
A. The Background of Scarlett’s Family
Scarlett shows her difference at the right opening of the novel. She has a “gently bred Creole mother from the seacoast” (John, 253). Ellen O′Hara, has never been seen “stirred from her austere placidity nor her personal appointments anything but perfect, no mater what the hour of day or night” (Margaret, 42). “There was a steely quality under her stately gentleness that awed the whole household” (Margaret, 43). Scarlett regards her mother as “something holy and apart from all the rest of humankind” and “the embodiment of justice, truth, loving tenderness and profound wisdom—a great lady.” Young Scarlett, or Scarlett antebellum, wants very much to emulate Ellen, but in order to avoid missing joys of life, she will follow her mother only on condition that “some day when she was married to Ashley and old, some day when she had time for it”(Margaret, 62). Nevertheless, Ellen does influence Scarlett much.
On the other hand, Scarlett’s father, Gerald O′Hara, a little, hard-headed and blustering Irish man, is not well educated, he believes that a man who wants to be rich should be strong and unafraid of work. And Gerald is hardy. “When Gerald wanted something, he gains it by taking the most direct route” (Margaret, 48). This conclusion seemed to fit for Scarlett, too.
B. Scarlett’s Different Attitudes to the Social Life and Her Happiness Antebellum
As for Scarlett, in her face “were too sharply blended the delicate feature of her mother, a coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father” (Margaret, 1). At the age of sixteen, thanks to Mammy and Ellen, “she looked sweet, charming and giddy, but she was, in reality, self-willed, vain and obstinate. She had the easily stirred passions of her Irish father and nothing except the thinnest veneer of her mother’s unselfish and forbearing nature” (Margaret, 61). she is high hearted, vivacious and charming, different from other ladies’ elegance. She is beautiful that she has made almost all the young men in the neighborhood court her; she has her own view that she always tries her best to gain what she wants—Ashley, or Tara, then Rhett. She will never know, and she would be pleased but unbelieving if she has been told, that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt. Because “the civilization of which she was a part would have been unbelieving too, for at no time, before or since, had so low a premium been placed on feminine naturalness” (Margaret, 82). undoubtedly, she is different, and because of this differences, Scarlett is destined to be damned—“No girl in the county, really liked Scarlett”(Margaret, 87).
C. Scarlett’s Rebellious Activities in Atlanta during the Civil War
Then comes the Civil War. After her impulse (marry Charles Hamilton to “retaliate” Ashley Wilkes’ marriage to Melanie Hamilton) Scarlett is soon widowed,
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