Chapter 9: Winning the Round

At eight o'clock in the evening of the fourth day, we met online. She asked me provocatively what I was talking about today, and I had an idea, and said, "You asked me yesterday what book I was most impressed by, and I remembered that it should be "Gone with the Wind", or "Gone with the Wind", written by Margaret Mitchell, I wonder if you have read it?" (I don't know if she's seen it or not, but I've seen it twice anyway, my dad bought it, I watched it once in junior high school, and once in high school.) She said, "Of course I did, but if you read the books written by female authors, it might be wrong to say that you are a macho." I pushed the keyboard away and laughed maniacally, feeling like I had succeeded.

I told her that I suddenly remembered a joke about Margaret Mitchell: American and European writers held a salon where an old French man asked a lady next to him how many works she would write.

The lady replied with one, and he smiled proudly, the reason why you are not famous is that you have only written one, how is one enough, I have now written eight, and the lady congratulated him.

He then politely asked her what the name of her novel was, and that he would flip through it when he had time. The lady told him that he was "Gone with the Wind", and he was so stunned that he couldn't speak for a long time.

She asked me, "Which of these two names do you think is better?" I replied like a candidate facing an examiner: "Gone with the Wind is in terms of content, and Gone with the Wind is a literal translation; When you see the four words of Gone with the Wind, you can guess that it is a description of the encounter of a beautiful woman in the era of human desolation. She praised: "That's a good answer, add 10 points!" But then the question arises, what do you think this book is trying to tell people? I replied briefly: "Four words, survival of the fittest." She said it was too concise, could you expand on that?

"Okay, the book describes the story of the American South before, during, and after the American Civil War, before the Civil War should be the old era, keep the slavery system, after the Civil War is the new era, slavery is abolished, some people the old era is their paradise, the new era is their hell, they are eliminated, some people are hell in the old era, but the new era has become their paradise, some people are more magical, the old and new times are their paradise, they are adaptors. The reason why the author named Piao is that I guess it is that people can change themselves according to the changes in the natural and social environment, and no one can stop the storms of the times, but where they drift, they must adapt to the environment, so that they can take root and thrive. I explained it to her in detail.

She exclaimed: "Your perspective is so unique, the same is reading books, I didn't think it was so profound!" That's true to me when I think about it, but I always feel uncomfortable when you talk about a romance novel like a philosophy book. ”

"How I comment on novels is my business, and if you're uncomfortable, that's your business." I replied triumphantly.

I was happy for a moment, and then it occurred to me that this girl had a condescending feeling towards me, always asking questions for me to answer, and I was overwhelmed, and I had to fight back and attack her.

I asked her, "Who do you remember the most about the characters in this work?" She said, "Naturally, it's Scarlett, Ashley, Melanie, and Brad." "I was confused for a while, the translation I read was "Gone with the Wind", and the translation she might have read was "Gone with the Wind", so the translation of the characters was different.

I was stunned for a long time, and then I got the number right, Scarlett is Scarlett, Ashley is Ashley, Melanie is Melanie, and Rhett is Butler, which is really confusing.

I would like you to comment on these four characters. She was stunned for a long time before replying that it was okay. It took about an hour for her to come back, and I waited until the flowers were gone.

Her comment is as follows: "Scarlett is the most beautiful and individual girl, headstrong, conceited and stubborn, but also extremely selfish and practical. She has always been blindly in love with Ashley, and she is angry at marrying Melan's brother because of Ashley's engagement to Melan. When rebuilding Tara Manor, she did not hesitate to destroy her sister's love and marry Frank in order to pay taxes. But her charm attracted Rhett deeply, and eventually he lost Rhett. Ashley is a typical child of a southern family, handsome, cowardly and incompetent, and has a dilapidated and decadent atmosphere of aristocratic society. Mei Lan is quiet and gentle, simple and kind, loving and tolerant, but her strength and courage are no less than Scarlett. Because of the deep friendship she developed with Scarlett, she loved Scarlett and trusted Scarlett from beginning to end. Brad was an unscrupulous man, stubborn, shrewd, cunning, who would judge the situation and make war money, and his behavior was deeply despised by the upper class of the South. He loved Scarlett so much that he had long seen that Scarlett was very similar to him, and married Frank after her death, but was heartbroken by Scarlett's delay in understanding his love. In the end, she said that she didn't like Scarlett and Ashley, and liked Melanie and Rhett.