Who's Captain Butler?

Gone with the Wind tells a love story set in the American Civil War.

186 1 April, the north-south relationship in the United States has been very tense. People in Georgia are talking about the inevitable war. However, Scarlett, who is 16 years old, has no interest in this. In addition to dancing and outing, there are those admirers who surround her. She was surprised when she heard that Ashley Wilkes would announce her engagement to Melanie at the picnic the next day. She has always liked Ashley's gentlemanly manner and thinks that she is much better than Melanie in all aspects. With her charm, she is sure to persuade Ashley to elope with her.

But at the party the next day, Scarlett never found a chance to talk to Ashley alone, because Ashley had been with Melanie. Out of a revenge, Scarlett easily attracted Melanie's brother Charles to her side. A few words fascinated this inexperienced and shy young man. After the party, the men argued fiercely about the current situation. Gerald had a particularly heated argument with a stranger named Rhett Butler. Leite believes that the south has no industrial resources, and it will definitely lose when it fights; On the other hand, Gerald and his friends thought that the Yankees could surrender without a fight, and only fight one or two wars and then surrender.

In the afternoon, Scarlett finally seized an opportunity to talk to Ashley about her thoughts, but Ashley politely refused. Scarlett felt "abandoned" by Ashley. She slapped Ashley in the face in a rage.

When the news of the war came, the dance that night was cancelled. Scarlett suddenly decided to marry Charles, because it would save her face and stimulate Ashley and her suitors. In this way, the wayward Scarlett became Charles' wife two weeks later.

Two months later, Charles died in the front, and Scarlett suddenly became a widow. To make matters worse, she found herself pregnant. A few months later, her son Wade was born.

The widow's life is unbearable for Scarlett, who is lively by nature. At this time, Ashley also came to the front. His wife Melanie wrote from Atlanta and invited her to stay at Charles' menstruation's house for a while. Scarlett left Tarot Manor with Wade and came to Atlanta.

The change of environment made Scarlett feel a little better. Thankfully, her late husband Charles left her a property and several shops in the city.

As the war became more and more tense, women in Atlanta were mobilized to take care of the wounded and sick brought back from the front in the local hospital and sew munitions for the Confederate army. However, as Scarlett has just lost her wife, she can't attend the dance and party for the soldiers who are going to war.

On one occasion, the hospital held a fund-raising dance. Being short of hands, Scarlett was called to help. At the ball, Scarlett saw Leiter who had quarreled with her father at Tarot Manor again. Now, Wright has become a famous businessman in Atlanta. He stole the northern blockade and provided materials for the southern army. Every time he comes back from the north, he will also bring their favorite fashions and fabrics to the upper-class women in Atlanta. So Leite is very popular with ladies. At the beginning of the dance, Rhett invited Scarlett to be his partner. Scarlett finally couldn't resist the temptation and walked into the dance floor in mourning.

With the deterioration of the war situation, the rules and regulations in life gradually fade in people's minds. Scarlett returned to her original appearance, frequently participated in various entertainment activities, and flirted and joked with the officers. However, she still can't forget Ashley.

For a time, Wright became a guest of many families in Atlanta. However, because he always laughed at and satirized the Confederacy, he soon became annoying. Only Melanie agreed with Wright's analysis of the war, because her husband Ashley also believed in the letter that the Confederacy could not win the war at all.

1963 In July, the Confederate army under the command of General Robert Lee was defeated in the northern state of Pennsylvania. Many boys who grew up with Scarlett were killed in that fierce battle. On Christmas Eve, Ashley came back from the front and stayed at home for a few days. When they were alone, Scarlett told Ashley the real reason why she married Charles and admitted that she still loved him. However, after the ordeal of the war, Ashley has lost his past passion. At the beginning of the following year, Melanie received a notice from the front that Ashley was missing. Later, through Wright's northern relations, it was obvious that Ashley was not dead. After being injured and captured, he was imprisoned in the Rock Island concentration camp in the north.

In the summer of' 64, Union troops approached Atlanta, the capital of the Confederacy. The city was surrounded, and Charles's aunt and many families in the city fled Atlanta. But because Melanie was going to have a baby, Scarlett had to stay by her side. Meanwhile, Leite called home and asked Scarlett to be his mistress, but Scarlett refused.

At the end of August, the sound of siege artillery suddenly fell silent. Legend has it that the Confederate army has decided to give up the city. Just then, Melanie's son was born. Atlanta was in chaos at this time, and there were no doctors at all. In a helpless situation, Scarlett delivered the baby herself and saved Melanie's mother and son's life. That night, the last Confederate troops withdrew from Atlanta, and the Union troops would soon enter the city. In despair, Scarlett had to turn to the ureter for help. Wright managed to send her, Melanie and her son out of town in a stolen broken carriage and arrived at Tarot Manor at night.

The sight along the way made Scarlett panic. Many familiar manors were burned to ruins, and only some broken walls stood there. After a bumpy day, they finally came to Tarot Manor. Unexpectedly, the white buildings in Tarot are still intact. But only my father Gerald and a slave housekeeper came out to meet them; Scarlett's two sisters were seriously ill in bed, and her mother died yesterday. Old Gerald could hardly recognize his daughter.

The burden of the whole family suddenly fell on the widow Scarlett, who was only 19 years old. Besides themselves and their children, the whole family includes my father, two sisters, Melanie and her newborn, and the only three slaves on the manor. They always need to maintain the livelihood of 10 people. Then she remembered the stories she heard from her father when she was a child, Irish fathers who started their own businesses.

The first problem before us is to find something to eat. So Scarlett carried a basket to dig in the field every day and picked it up in the ruins. Both her sisters are Miss Jiao, so I can't count on them. Even the three slaves emphasized that they never did housework or farm work. The bitter life tempered Scarlett, but it also made her heartless, and her family was afraid of her. Since then, Scarlett has a strong desire to restore the elegance of Tarot Manor: the dining table is full of silver tableware, bright glasses and rich food, a good horse is tied to the stable, a luxury carriage is placed in the garage, and groups of slaves are picking cotton in the fields of Tarot. ...

One day, a northern soldier rode to the manor. Scarlett shot him with a pistol and took a horse and some money from the soldier's pocket. This solved her urgent need.

On Christmas Eve, Frank Kennedy, my sister Suellen's fiance, came to the manor with a Confederate grain collection team. Scarlett certainly won't give them hard-won food in vain.

1in April, 965, the confederate army surrendered and the war finally ended. Many southerners cry for their failure. In Scarlett's mind, the more important question is how to keep Tarot Manor.

After the war, some soldiers passed by Tarot Manor every day and returned to their hometown. One day, Scarlett found a young man in a coma at the door and rescued him. With everyone's concern, this young man named Will gradually recovered. Will was homeless, so he settled in Tarot and slowly took on many management affairs of the manor.

Ashley finally came back alive. He was ragged and haggard, and his original temperament was gone. The following spring, the new government ordered Tarot Manor to pay a new additional tax within a time limit, otherwise it would auction the manor to offset the tax. It turned out that Jonas, the housekeeper who was driven away from Tarot Manor for dereliction of duty a few years ago, became the head of the newly established Slave Liberation Committee. Now, he tried to embezzle Tarot Manor, so he came up with the idea of compulsory payment of additional tax. Scarlett and Will are at a loss, hoping that Ashley can do something for them, but Ashley's cowardice disappoints them.

In despair, Scarlett suddenly remembered Leite. If Ratken takes out money to keep Tarot Manor, Scarlett is willing to marry him or be his mistress. The next day, Scarlett came to Atlanta to look for Wright, and then she learned that Wright was imprisoned on suspicion of embezzling large sums of money from the Confederacy. Frustrated, Scarlett accidentally met her sister Sue Ellen's fiance Frank. He is now the owner of a shop and has a sum of money in his hand. Scarlett suddenly had a plan, lied that Sue Ellen was married, and then easily put Frank in her arms. Two weeks later, they got married Tarot Manor has been saved! But it was soon discovered that Frank had no business sense and turned a deaf ear to other people's suggestions, so his business was very bad. At this time, Leite was released through various personal relationships. He lent Scarlett a sum of money, and Scarlett bought a closed wood processing factory behind Frank's back and started her own business. It is unprecedented for a woman to earn money by doing business like a man in Atlanta. This incident caused a great sensation.

Scarlett is pregnant. She wanted to earn more money before production for a rainy day, so she bought the second timber factory. During this time, Scarlett drove herself to and from the timber factory every day, and she didn't have any friends except Wright. One day, Leite advised her to be careful on the road, suggesting that if she was attacked by a black man, the Klan would retaliate for her. At that time, the Atlanta military government, which implemented the "Reconstruction Act", was planning how to eliminate the Ku Klan and all suspected southerners.

In June, Scarlett rushed back to Tarot Manor to attend her father's funeral. After the funeral, the Scarlett family, including Ashley, Melanie and Will, moved to Atlanta and bought a shabby house to live in. Melanie quickly won the trust of women and became a respected figure. Although Ashley was entrusted by Scarlett to manage a lumber mill, it was badly run. 167

Scarlett gave birth to a daughter, and a few weeks later, she began to run between two lumber mills. At this time, the security situation in Atlanta is deteriorating. 1867 One night in March, Scarlett was attacked by a white man and a black man while driving home. Thanks to the protection of a black slave, she was not injured. That night, the Klan launched an attack, but they fell into a trap set by the army. In the crossfire, Frank was killed and Ashley was injured. Thanks to Wright's advice, other white people who participated in the Klan movement were saved. A few months later, despite the dissuasion and opposition of relatives and friends, Scarlett and Rhett got married. Their honeymoon was spent in New Orleans, and the new house designed by Scarlett herself was soon completed, which is the most luxurious residence in Atlanta. For Scarlett, at this time, she seems to have realized her ideal in Tarot Manor. Wright gave great satisfaction to any material requirements she put forward. She really has everything. Soon, their daughter Bonnie was born. Brett has done almost everything for Bonnie. Wright's efforts to change her image in the eyes of Atlanta residents are entirely aimed at establishing Bonnie's position in Atlanta in the future.

Scarlett is still attached to Ashley. One night, at the lumber mill, Scarlett and Ashley had a very speculative conversation. They recalled having a picnic together 10 years ago. Ashley admits that he and Brett are actually very similar, but they have chosen different directions on the road of life. Recalling the past suddenly made Scarlett feel a sense of fear, and she fell into Ashley's arms involuntarily. It was soon known to Wright and Melanie. A few days later, Rhett took Bonnie on a long trip. After he left, Scarlett immediately went to Melanie to tell her about her mistake. But Melanie stopped her, and she repeatedly stressed that only Scarlett was her closest relative.

Soon, Scarlett found herself pregnant again. At this time, she began to miss Leite and hoped that he would come back soon. On the day when Leite got home, Scarlett specially greeted him at the stairs. I wanted to tell him the news of pregnancy, but when I saw his sarcastic expression, Scarlett was out of breath. As a result, I slipped and fell down the stairs and broke my ribs. Wright was remorseful. In front of Melanie, he cried like a child and admitted his mistake.

Since then, Wright seems to have changed. He broke with his "old friends" in the military-controlled government in the past and joined the Democratic Party, preparing to oust the governor appointed by the federal government with a group of civil war veterans in Atlanta. 187 1 Christmas, the power of the state government finally returned to the hands of southerners.

The black mother suggested buying a pony for four-year-old Bonnie so that she wouldn't have to ride with Rhett again. I didn't expect Bonnie, who was active, to have an accident while riding the fence. After Bonnie died, Rhett drank all day and treated Scarlett like a passerby.

Melanie went against the doctor's advice and got pregnant again. After pregnancy, her health deteriorated rapidly. Before she died, she gave Scarlett the burden of taking care of Ashley. At this moment, Scarlett suddenly realized that Melanie, who has always been thin, is actually protecting her sword and shield.

With Melanie dead, Ashley seems to have lost her backbone. He is more afraid than Scarlett. Only then did Scarlett believe what Rhett had told her for years that Ashley was really not worthy of love. In fact, she didn't love Ashley in real life, so the two spiritual pillars in her life disappeared.

In the dense fog, Scarlett ran home in despair. In the fog, she seemed to relive a nightmare that had troubled her for many years. Finally, she saw the light of her house, and suddenly she felt that she saw hope, because there was still Leite in the world, and she really loved Leite!

However, all this is too late. Rhett has decided to leave home and Scarlett forever. At this moment, for Scarlett, all the light in life disappeared. She can only go back to Tarot Manor. She felt so tired that her brain could no longer bear the pressure. She said to herself, "Let's leave it till tomorrow … Anyway, tomorrow is another day …"

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Abstract: Because Scarlett was related to this tragic event, the women in the city hated her guts. Later, when she learned that her husband had died, she heard about it, but she couldn't admit that she couldn't accept the body, so she couldn't get any comfort. Everyone doesn't hate her as much as before. After dawn, the body was found and the authorities informed her, but before that, she had to pretend she didn't know anything. Frank and Tommy are lying on the hay in the clearing, their cold hands holding pistols, and their bodies are getting stiff. The Yankees will say that they died fighting each other for one of Bell's daughters. This kind of thing is very common. Everyone has deep sympathy for Tommy's wife Fanny. She just gave birth to a baby, but no one can go to see her in the dark and comfort her, because there is a team of Yankees around her house, waiting to catch Tommy. There is another group of people standing near Aunt Pitty's house, waiting to catch Franklin.

Before dawn, the news spread all over the city, saying that the military court would investigate in the morning. City people stayed up all night, waiting for anxiety, and their eyelids were heavy. They know that the safety of several famous people in the city depends on three things-first, Ashley Wilkes should be able to stand up in front of the military Committee, indicating that he only feels severe pain after drinking, and there is nothing more serious. Second, Belle Watling promised that these people would spend the night at her place. Third, Rhett Butler promised that he would always be with them.

Everyone is nervous about the last two points. Belle Watling! How can you pin your man's life on her? It's unbearable! In the past, when some ladies saw her in the street, they would walk across the street quickly and avoid her to show their arrogance. Now I wonder if she remembers such a thing. If she does, it's really scary. Men are not as embarrassed as their wives to pin their lives on Bell, because many of them think that Bell is not a bad person. What makes them feel sad is that they have to pin their lives and freedom on Rhett Butler, who is a speculator and a Yankee. A Ling, a famous slut and Rhett in the city, is the most annoying person in the city. How can such two people make everyone rely on them?

There is another thing that makes them sulk. They knew that Yankees and adventurers would laugh at them. Let those people see jokes! 12 The most famous citizens in the city are now exposed, and they are all frequent visitors to Belwatlin Casino! Two of them were shot for a bitch. Some people were so drunk that even Bell couldn't stand it and were kicked out. Several people were arrested because everyone knew they were there, but they refused to admit it.

Atlanta is afraid that the Yankees will laugh at them, which makes sense. For a long time, southerners' indifference and contempt for them made them feel breathless. Now they can laugh heartily. The officers quickly woke up their colleagues and told them in detail about it. The husband wakes his wife up early in the morning and tells them everything he can tell women. So the wife quickly got dressed, knocked on the neighbor's door and spread the news to them. The Yankee wives were ecstatic at the news, and they laughed with tears all over their faces. You southerners keep saying that you respect women and are brave and fearless, but in fact you are all hypocritical! Those women used to look at the sky and ignore people, but now they are not so snobbish. Who doesn't know that their husbands said they would go to a political rally, but in fact they are very poor here, and they also said it was a political rally! How ridiculous!

Although they laughed, they still felt sorry for Scarlett's tragic experience. Anyway, Scarlett is a decent woman. In Atlanta, there are several women who are kind to the Yankees, and she is one of them. She has won their sympathy, because her husband can't or won't support her well, and she has to work by herself. Although her husband is not good, it is terrible for poor Scarlett to find that he is unfaithful to her. Also, his death and the discovery of his cheating happened at the same time, which is even more terrible. Anyway, a bad husband is better than no husband, so the Yankee wives decided to be especially kind to Scarlett. As for the other women, Mrs. Meade, Mrs. meriwether, Mrs. Elsing, Tommy Brock's widow, and especially Mrs. Ashley Wilkes, if they see them again in the future, they will be laughed at in person. So that they can know some manners.

That night, most of the dark rooms in the north city were quietly talking about this topic. Wives told their husbands excitedly that they didn't care what the Yankees thought, but deep down, they felt that they would rather be whipped by Indians than endure the ridicule of the Yankees, and they couldn't tell the truth about their husbands.

Dr. Meade was very angry because Rhett pushed him and others into this situation and violated his dignity. He told Mrs. Meade that unless he was afraid of implicating others, he would rather turn himself in and be hanged by them than be told that he was at Bell's house.

"This is an insult to you, Mrs. Meade," he said angrily.

"Everybody knows you're not there anyway, because-because-""The Yankees don't know. If we want to save our lives, we must convince them that this is true. They will laugh. I can't stand that someone will believe it and laugh at it. This is an insult to you, because-dear, I have always been loyal to you. " "I know," Mrs. Meade smiled in the dark and put a thin hand in the doctor's. "But I'd rather it's all true than let them touch you." "Mrs. Meade, do you know what you are talking about?" Cried Dr. Meade. He was surprised that his wife was so practical and had no doubt.

"Of course I know, I lost Darcy, I also lost Phil, you are my only family. As long as I don't lose you, you are crazy! What are you talking about? " "You old fool," Mrs. Meade whispered, leaning her head on his sleeve.

Mr. and Mrs. Meade were silent for a while, touched their wife's face, and then broke out again. "Let me accept the housekeeper's kindness! I might as well get tattooed, even if he saved my life. I can't be polite to him either. He is arrogant to the extreme, profiteering. He is a shameless man through and through, and I get angry when I think about it. Should I thank him for saving his life? He didn't fight-""Melanie said he joined the army after Atlanta fell. " "That's a lie. No matter what that sweet-talking rascal says, Miss Melanie will believe it. I don't know why he did it-I hate to say it after so much trouble, but-well, people have been talking about his relationship with Mrs. Kennedy. I saw them driving back together in a carriage, too many times in more than a year. He must have done it for her. " If it was for Scarlett, he wouldn't help at all. Isn't Frank Kennedy willing to hang him? I think he did it for Melanie-""Mrs. Meade, you don't mean there's something between them! " "You don't talk nonsense! But since he managed to exchange Ashley back during the war, she has fallen in love with him for no reason. I will treat him fairly. He never smirked when he was with her. He always tries to be kind and considerate, and he is a completely different person. Judging from his attitude towards Melanie, he can do it even if he wants to be a disciplined person. I think the reason why he did this was-"She didn't go on." Doctor, you may not like my idea. "I don't like it at all!" "I think he did it for Melanie, but mainly because he thought it would play a big joke on us. We used to hate him so much that we didn't hide it. Now he has given us this difficult problem. You guys either admit that you are with that woman named Watling, which will make you and your wife lose face in front of the Yankees, or you have to tell the truth and let them die, and he knows it. We all have to thank him and his mistress, but I would almost rather be hanged than thank them for the benefits they have brought us.

I bet he's happy over there. "

The doctor sighed. "When he took us upstairs, it seemed that he really thought it was fun." Doctor, "said Mrs. Meade after a pause," what's the situation inside? ""What are you talking about, Mrs. Meade? ""What's it like in her place? Do you have a carved glass chandelier? Do you have red plush curtains and a dozen large gold-plated mirrors? Are all those girls naked? When the doctor heard the news, he was shocked and shouted, "My God! "Because he never thought that a chaste woman would have such a strong curiosity about those women who are not chaste." How dare you ask such a question? You're crazy! I must give you a sedative. "I don't want a sedative. I just want to know, well, honey, I only have this chance to know what bad women are like there. You are so hateful that you don't tell me! " "I saw nothing. Listen to me. I think it's too embarrassing to come to a place like this, and I don't care what it's like around me, "the doctor said solemnly." He never doubted his wife's character, but now it's exposed, which makes him feel more uneasy than what happened that night. "If you allow me, I'd like to sleep for a while." "Then go to sleep," she replied, and I could hear from her tone that she was disappointed. When the doctor bent down to take off her shoes, she said in a pleasant voice in the dark, "I think Dolly will get all the information from Grandpa meriwether, and she will tell me." "Oh, my God! Mrs. Meade, are you serious? Do women talk about such things? Go to bed, said Mrs. Meade.

The next day, it was raining and snowing, and it got dark early in winter. At dusk, the rain and snow stopped and a strong wind blew. Melanie, wrapped in a cloak, inexplicably followed a strange black man along the path in front of the house. That black man is a coachman. He came to see Melanie. He looked mysterious. There is a carriage with curtains waiting outside. Melanie went to the carriage, the door opened and vaguely saw a woman sitting inside.

Melanie leaned forward again, looked inside carefully and asked, "Who are you?

Can you come in? It's too cold outside-"

"Please come up and sit with me for a while, Mrs. Wilkes." A voice of shame came from the carriage, which seemed familiar.

"Hello, isn't this Miss Watling's wife?" Melanie said. "I also want to see you! Go inside. " "No, Mrs Wilkes," said Belle Watling. Listening to her voice, she was a little surprised. "Please come up and sit with me for a while." So Melanie got on the bus and the driver immediately closed the door. She sat down next to Bell and reached out to hold the label's hand.

"I don't know how to thank you for what happened today! We all have to thank you! " Mrs. Wilkes, you shouldn't have sent that letter to me this morning. It's not that I don't want to receive your letter, but that I'm afraid it will fall into the hands of the Yankees. Everything that happened at 32 1 1AE _ is that you want to come and thank me-Mrs. Wilkes, why are you confused? How did you come up with this idea? I'll tell you as soon as it gets dark. Don't come, I-you-alas, this is so inappropriate. ""A kind woman saved my husband's life. I'll thank him. What's the matter? ""Come on, Mrs. Wilkes! Don't you understand? " Melanie was silent for a moment. She understood the meaning of this sentence and felt a little embarrassed. The beautiful woman sitting in the dark carriage, dressed in plain clothes, doesn't look like the bad woman and brothel madam she imagined. She speaks-a little tacky, but she is a kind and enthusiastic person.

"You did really well in the military police commander today, Mrs. Watling. You, your young girl, you saved all our lives. " "Mr. Wilkes really did a good job. I don't know how he can stand up and calmly explain the situation. I saw him bleeding profusely last night. Is he all right, Mrs Wilkes? " "There is nothing to ask, thank you. The doctor said that he only hurt a little flesh, and he really lost a lot of blood. This morning, he-alas, he was supported by brandy, otherwise he wouldn't have worked so hard, but you, Mrs. Watling, saved our lives. It sounds really convincing when you frantically ask them to pay for the mirror. " "Thank you, madam. But I-I think Captain Butler did a good job, too, "Bell said with a smug expression in his voice.

"Oh, he's great!" Melanie said enthusiastically. "The Yankees couldn't help believing his testimony. He must handle the whole thing well. I really don't know how to thank him or thank you! You are really kind and kind people! "That's very kind of you, Mrs. Wilkes. It's an honor. I hope I didn't embarrass you by saying that Mr. Wilkes often comes to my house. You know, he never-""I know. You didn't embarrass me by saying that. I sincerely thank you. " "I dare say that other ladies don't appreciate me." Bell suddenly said savagely. "I bet they don't appreciate Captain Butler either. I bet they hate him even more now. I think you are the only one who will thank me. I dare say that if they see me in the street, they dare not look me in the eye. I don't care that their husbands are hanged, but Mr. Wilkes, I don't care. You know, I will never forget your kindness to me during the war. You gave me money and then gave it to the hospital. No wife in this city is so kind to me as you are. (Chapter 46)

This enduring novel touched countless readers. Has been made into movies many times. This film is also called Gone with the Wind.