Gone with the Wind

She, Scarlett O'Hara, was lying behind a negro cabin, in the midst of ruins, too sick and too weak to move, and no one in the world knew or cared. No one would care if they did know, for everyone had too many troubles of their own to worry about her. And all this was happening to her, Scarlett O'Hara, who had never raised her hand even to pick up her discarded stockings from the floor or to tie the laces of her slippers--- Scarlett, whose littl eheadaches and tempers had been coddled and catered to all her life.

When she arose at last and saw again the black ruins of Twelve Oaks, her head was raised high and something that was yough and beauty and potential tenderness had gone out of her face forever. What was past was past. Those who were dead were dead. The lazy luxury of the old days was gone, never to return. And as Scarlett settled the heavy basket across her arm, she had settled her oen mind and her own life. There was no going back and she was going forward.

娇滴滴的小姐生活彻底离开她了。哪怕她到了最后被瑞德几乎是无微不至的保护，她也再也回不来这个年少的她了。 难过。 生活就是这么前进，一点喘息的时间都不给。 顷刻之间万劫不复。。。

Why, she had never had to do a thing for herself in all her life. There had always been somone to do things for her, to look after her, shelter and protect her and spoil her. It was incredible that she could be in such a fix. Not a friend, not a neighbor to help her. There had always been friends, neighbors, the competent hands of willing slaves. And now in this hour of greatest need, there was no one. It was incredible that she could be so completely alone, and frightened, and far from home.

这是艰苦生活的开始，也是坚强的开始。经过现在艰苦生活的锻造，斯嘉丽再也不能坐以待毙等着厄运、饥饿和贫穷降临在她身上了。她开始一刻不停歇的工作，敛钱，最终因为和恶龙缠斗久了，自己也变成了恶龙。这真的不是什么霸道总裁小娇妻的故事，女主在最艰难的时候，瑞德都不在或者说决定要永远离开她。。。

Page 375 Chapter XXIII

Why had he gone, stepping off into the dark, into the war, into a Cause that was lost, into a world that was mad? Why had he gone, Rhett who loved the pleasure of women and liquor, the comfort of good food and soft beds, the feel of fine linen and good leather, who hated the South and jeered at the fools who fought for it? Now he had set his varnished boots upon a bitter road where hunger tramped with tireless stride and wounds and weariness and heartbreak ran like yelping wolves. And the end of the road wass death. He need not have gone. He was safe, rich, comfortbale. But he had gone, leaving her alone in a night as black as blindness, with the Yankee Army between her and home.

斯嘉丽所想到的这些，我相信，没有一点是瑞德自己不知道的。他比斯嘉丽更要恨这个南方的社会，这个社会和它愚蠢的规则和讲究；这个社会把他踢了出去，并好像永远不会再接纳他；这个社会愚蠢的乐观主义和所谓的信仰。。。然而，内心深处，他仍然渴望是这个社会的一部分，被它接纳，被它承认。这也是为后来bonnie出生后，瑞德不顾一切的尝试融入旧文明以及最终离开亚特兰大回归乡下的铺垫。

Page 381 Chapter XXIV

If she could only reach the kind arms of Tara and Ellen and lay down her burdens, far too heavy for her young shoulders --- the dying woman, the fading baby, her own hungry little boy, the frightened negro, all looing to her for strength, for guidance, all reading in her straight back courage she did not possess and strength which had long since failed.

第二十四章深夜逃离被围困的亚特兰大可能是斯嘉丽最恐怖的人生经历。但她不知道更恐怖的是，这竟然是她最后无忧无虑的少女时代。她在枪炮、大火、北方兵的马蹄声中所期盼的唯一就是回到Tara，回到妈妈的怀抱，把所有的责任从自己的肩上卸下来。虽然瑞德在半路离开了她，虽然黑夜黑的能吞噬一切，但是没有关系，Tara还在，妈妈还在。。。然而斯嘉丽不知道的是，她一天之差和妈妈天人永隔。她成为了这个家庭的大家长，她成为了所有人的庇护，她成为了她妈。。。（ps真的不是在说脏话）

Page 400 Chapter XXIV

She was seeing things with new eyes for, somewhere along the long road to Tara, she had left her girlhood behind her. She was no longer plastic clay, yielding imprint to each new experience. The clay has hardened, some time in this indeterminate day which had lasted a thousand years. Tonght was the last time she would ever be ministered to as a child. She was a woman now and yough was gone.

少女时代结束咯~~

Ween he saw her standing in the mud, Mr Wilkes drew rein with a smile of pleasure and, dismounting, came toward her.

"I had hoped to see you, Scarlett. I was charged with so many messages from your people. But there was no time. We just got in this morning and they are rushing us out immediately, as you see."

"Oh Mr Wilkes," she cried desperately, holding his hand. "Don't go! Why must you go!"

"Ah, so you think I'm too old!" He smiled, and it was Ashley's smile in an older face." Perhaps I am too old to match but not to ride and to shoot."...He was laughing now, turning away from her tears.

我觉得这一段是为数不多的斯嘉丽的真正人性被触动的地方。不是恐惧，不是愤恨，而是悲伤和难过。在最后 Melly 在围城中生孩子的时候，看到那么多伤病躺在地上呻吟都没有像如今这一刻那样打动她。

"...I wouldn't have ever let you come upon this porch at all, if I hadn't been feeling so blue, and ---"

"Sit down and smooth your ruffed fur," he said, and his voice changed. He reached up and taking her hand pulled her back into her chair. "Why are you blue?"

瑞德听到斯嘉丽不开心，马上不再调戏她，而是开始仔细的劝慰她。瑞德对她像是对一个小孩一样。很多次斯嘉丽哭的时候，他都拿出一条手绢来，拿着让她擤鼻涕——像个乖小孩一样。谁能想到他妈呢到了后来会有那样的一个结局。还是那句话，想穿到书里和瑞德好好谈一场恋爱，做夫妻——昨天晚上和我男票说了，他哈哈大笑，笑什么？！

Page 328 Chapter XIX

But I do like you tremendously --- for the elasticity of your conscience, for the selfishness which you seldom trouble to hide, and for the shrewd practicality in you which, I fear, you get from some not too remote Irish-presant ancestor.

Longer casulty lists tomorrow! Tomorrow. She had not thought of tomorrow, so happy was she at first that Ashley's name was not on that list. Tomottow. Why, right this minute he might be dead and she would not know it until tomorrow, or a week from tomorrow.

斯嘉丽一贯的“明天”再说。

Chapter XVI 是第二部分的结尾。在第二部分里面，内战尚没有延伸到南方，斯嘉丽新寡来到亚特兰大这个仍然欣欣向荣的小城镇。所有的南方人仍然保有着他们固执的骄傲，无视现实的乐观和深入骨子里的忠诚。 斯嘉丽开始在瑞德的伴随下，尝试着挑战世俗条框，抛弃传统，放纵自己。梅兰妮看到了被人诟病的瑞德实际上有一颗宽容、尊重、金子般的心。 艾希礼回了亚特兰大过圣诞节，使梅兰妮怀孕，并再一次屈从于自己的肉欲，拥抱、亲吻了斯嘉丽，他之后在战役中被俘。战争在不可避免的跌向深渊，物资紧缺，物价疯涨，投机倒把，大发国难财的人（包括瑞德）开始肆虐。

下一部分是亚特兰大的围城。南方陷入水深火热。大火烧过所有的庄园，大风吹过之后，野草长出来，南方不会有庄园们曾经存在过的痕迹。也是斯嘉丽真正的苦难生活的开始。