《飘》是美国现代女作家玛格丽特.米歇尔于1936年发表的一部长篇通俗小说,也是其一生唯一的一部长篇小说,《飘》问世70多年来,被广泛流传并受到广泛的好评,不失为一部旷世经典之作。然而《飘》所走过的路程却并不是一帆风顺的,在许多批评家看来,《飘》不能被称为一部优雅的艺术之作,甚至不能进入美国文学的神圣殿堂。小说的女主人公斯佳丽被他们描绘成一个极度自私、爱慕虚荣、冷酷无情、为达目的不择手段的女性。但是,经过

Scarlett: No.

Rhett: Climb down!

Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, please, don't go! You can't leave me! Please! I'll never forgive you! Rhett: I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a

bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. But there is one thing I do know. And that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us... I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots both of us... selfish and shrewed, but able to look things in the eyes and call them by their right names.

Scarlett: Don't hold me like that!

Rhett: Scarlett, look at me. I love you more than I've ever loved any woman. And I've

waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman.

Scarlett: Let me alone.

Rhett: Here's a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett, wants to feel your arms

around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me. You are a woman sending a soldier to his death, with a beautiful memory... Scarlett, kiss me... Kiss me once.

Scarlett: You low-down, cowardly, nasty thing, you! They were right... Everybody was

right... You, you are not a gentleman!

Rhett: A minor point, at such a moment... Here. If anyone lays a hand on this nag, shoot

him, but don't make a mistake and shoot the nag.

Scarlett: Oh, go on. I want you to go! I hope a cannon ball lands slap on you! I hope

you're blown into a million pieces! I...

Rhett: Never mind the rest. I follow your general idea. And when I'm dead on the altar of

my country, I hope your conscience hurts you. Goodbye, Scarlett… (Victor Fleming, 1941, movie)

Rhett disappeared at the end of the road, without his help, Scarlett feel lonely and scared, but she didn t give up, what she agrees was, “ I will make is, mother will help me…”

Arriving home at Tara, Scarlett finds the house ruined, the food gone, the crops burned, most of the slaves run off, her mother dead, her father with dementia, and her two sisters sick with typhoid. Desperate for food, she walks to Twelve Oaks only to find it burned to the ground. Hunting around, she finds some vegetables in the gardens of the slave quarters, but becomes ill when she tries to eat them. After she recovers, she swears