All the love you give is expected to be rewarded, but how can a simple little girl pay her first love to an imaginary phantom? Pain and unwillingness tormented her fiercely, and the more she couldn't get it, the more beautiful she felt. In this mood, Reid repeatedly ignores and hurts Reid who appears around him. In fact, readers are all aware of Reid's love for Scarlett, but Scarlett missed this sincere relationship in the dignity and prejudice of the two, until she When he understood, Reid had lost confidence after a long period of disappointment.
A passage in Gone with the Wind goes like this:
"He never really existed, except in my imagination," she thought wearily. "I fell in love with something of my own making that died like Melanie. I sewed a beautiful suit and fell in love with it. Then Ashley came running on horseback, He's so handsome and so different, I put him in that suit, whether he's wearing it or not. I don't want to see what he really is. I've always loved that beautiful suit ----and not loving him at all."
Now she could recall many years ago, seeing herself wearing a green and white muslin dress standing in Tara's sunshine, attracted by the gleaming young man on horseback. It was now clear to her that he was nothing more than a childish phantom of herself, no more important than the pair of aquamarine earrings she had coaxed from Gerald. She had also yearned for that pair of earrings, but once they were obtained, they were of little value. Like anything other than money, they lost their value as soon as they got into her hands. So did Ashley, who would have been worthless long ago had she satisfied her vanity by refusing to marry him in those distant days in the first place. If she had dominated him, had seen him go from fiery, anxious, to jealous, sullen, begging, like other boys, then when she met a new man, her once fanatical infatuation would also be gone. Disappear, like a fog that quickly dissipates when the sun appears and a light wind blows.
In life, we are not like in the movie. When we are in love, we think that he is your true love. Maybe he is just a phantom in your imagination. In fact, what we fall in love with is love itself.
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