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Author: Margaret Mitchell
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Publication Date: 2000-09-01
Features: The protagonist, Scarlett O'Hara, is young and beautiful but cold, greedy, and arrogant. To revitalize her family's fortune, she treats love and marriage as transactions, with none of her three marriages being sincere. It is only later that she finally understands how to make life choices in love. Through such characters and stories, the author uses artistic imagery to provoke readers to reflect: What does "conquest" mean in life? What is honesty really? What will happen when hypocrisy, absurdity, and beauty combine? What is the relationship between hope, pain, and pity? Etc. Since the novel is set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, it depicts the joys and sorrows of life, the entanglement of human emotions, and the ups and downs of the plot amidst the bloodshed, making it gripping and hard to put down.