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zy luxury of the old days is gone, never to return. “There was no going back and she was going forward throughout the South for fifty years there would be bitter–eyed woman who looked backward… But Scarlett was never to look back” At that moment hunger grows at her empty stomach again and Scarlett says aloud: “As god is my witness...the Yankees aren’t going to lick me. I’m going to live through this, and when it’s over I’m never going to be hunger again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill—as God is my witness, I’m never going to be hunger again” (Margaret, 419). This is her dauntlessness. What an announcement of struggle! Indeed it is a day that is worthy of celebration. That symbolizes the birth of a completely new woman, a heroine in the old time. From then on, the shell of hardness, which has begun to form about her heart when she lies in the slave garden, is slowly thickening. Scarlett, who is more advanced than others, firstly realizes that her mother’s ordered world is gone and a brutal world has taken its place. “She sees, or she thinks she sees that her mother has been wrong, and she changes swiftly to meet this new world for which she is not prepared” (Margaret, 425). This is her perceptivity. Both of Scarlett’s two sisters and the slaves all refuse, or do not dare, to face the reality. Melanie, who can face the situation, but only endures and suffers passively, and she is not willing to, or can not, struggle against the bad luck positively and energetically. That is to say, once again, Scarlett is different and complained by everyone except Melanie—why does she become so cool, so chilly? As for her courage and fieriness, Scarlett kills a thieving Yankees soldier, imperturbably and determinately—right before the Yankee’s shoot. Such an act is mass criticized by the critics, they accuse her of brutality and murderer. They condemn her living by hook or by crook, not like a fair lady. But actually, she only “does what under the circumstances must be done if she is to survived” (W.J, 109). In modern society, that is called “legitimate defense,” is therefore guiltless. Anyway, Scarlett saves other three sick girls and the babies. That is worthwhile. Even if Melanie were in the same situation, “she’d have done the same thing” (Margaret, 431). With Scarlett’s wisdom and diligence, the Tara can surely offer a better and better life if there were not the taxation affair. Then, in order to raise money, Scarlett has to go to Atlanta to drop on Rhett, “being a mere woman in a society that is bankrupt and still dominated by men who are either stupid or idealistic—and in any case ineffectual—Scarlett must use the only means available to her for saving the family plantation: sex”(W.J,108). However, this decision is not an easy one for her, Scarlett fights a quick battle with the “...three most binding ties of her soul—the memory of Ellen, the teachings of her religion and her love for Ashley. She knew that what she had in her mind must be hideous to her mother even in that warm far off heaven where she surely was. She knew that fornication was a mortal sin. And she knew that loving Ashley as she did, her plan was doubly prostitution...” (Margaret, 528). Unfortunately, although she has planned to sacrifice herself to Rhett, she fails, for Rhett is in prison. But in any case she will not give up Tara, and her folks. “She will seduce her sister’s fiancé in order to get his memory” (W.J, 108)—If her sister is a little less sel