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fish than her, Scarlett will need not to marry such an old man. After all, she victimizes herself. To get and save enough money, Scarlett buys a sawmill herself. She shuttled back and forth in Atlanta city with the whole town talking about her. And she makes a success. Simultaneously, she is excluded out of social contacts. All she has done is to be different from other women and she has made a little success of it. That is the one unforgivable sin in any society.〝Be different and be damned〞. As Rhett says to her, “Scarlett, the mere fact that you’ve made a success of your mill is an insult to every man who hasn’t succeeded. Remember, a well-bred female’s place is in the home and she should know nothing about this busy brutal world”(Margaret, 663). By now, we know, perhaps only partly, the reason why she is 〝different and damned〞. G. Scarlett’s Secret of Survival Only Grandma Fontaine, “gives Scarlett the formula for survival and supplies the rational for Scarlett’s tooth-and-fang code of morality” (W.J, 109): “we play along with lesser folks and we talk what we can get from them, and when we are strong enough, we kick the necks of the folks whose necks we’ve climbed over. That, my child, is the secret of survival”(Margaret, 701). Scarlett, too, refuses to be one of the lesser folks, she wants not only to survive but also 〝prevail and will use any means at hand to gain her ends.〞And Scarlett wins the economic battle at last, though she loses the battle of heart(W.J,110). Scarlett’s tragedy lines in her “inability to understand the meaning of being a lady”(Elizabeth, 402). “No lady would admit that she, and not her husband, ran the plantation. No lady would admit to being hungry in public. No lady would admit to sexual desire or pleasure”(Elizabeth, 399). Ⅱ.The Relation between Scarlett and Other Important Characters Surely, Scarlett is the soul figure in the novel, however, there are many other important roles accompany her. Among them, Rhett Butler is Scarlett’s genuine lover, Melanie is her true friend, and Ashley actually is her illusion. A. Scarlett and Rhett Butler After the birth of her second child, Scarlett loses her second husband, too. Then she marries Rhett Butler, whom she “hates” much, and her neighborhood hate thoroughly. Naturally, she is criticized terribly. But to the close of the novel, she loses him when she finally finds that how much she depends on him and loves him—“she must have loved Rhett all along, as an adult loves, not as a girl loves”(Dawson, 10). Rhett Butler, a 〝rogue〞, Scarlett’s male counterpart, a renegade aristocrat originally from Charleston, as reprehensible as Scarlett in morals, but much her superior by reason of his romantically cynical intelligence (John, 253). “Whenever Scarlett’s gumption fails, when she needs money, rescue, consolation, or challenge, Rhett Butler appears” He is so powerful that Scarlett even wants to be a man as strong as him. With Rhett beside her, she does not fear anything. As we all know, Scarlett loves Rhett for his sagacity, factualism, and muscularity. More than she loves him, Rhett falls in love with Scarlett the first time he saw her. But he knows her, at least he thinks so, she is “so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip” (Margaret, 1003). He is willing to, indeed he does, and do everything for her except telling her he loves her. He supports her and ridicules her, helps her and leaves her. Perha