[Gone with the Wind] Miss Margot

What's the point of this family gathering?It is natural to let everyone present know what the current situation in the United States is, and who is the first person who needs to be persuaded at this gathering?Not Gerald O'Hara, but Suellen's husband, Frank Kennedy.

Frank Kennedy is a typical southern man. If his wife makes a mistake, he will protect her, just like in the original book, he chose to take the initiative to kill the black man who dared to attack Scarlet in the original book.

However, Margot never thought that Frank would take the initiative to take over what their sisters did for the South.Just like in the original book, Frank couldn't accept that Scarlett ran a lumber factory.

In this era, discrimination against women is everywhere.

Just like protecting your home.It is of course right for a man to choose to go to the battlefield.But if they are women, they can only choose to participate in some bazaar, or go to the hospital, and they can only do some nursing work in the hospital.

Because in this era, the requirements for women are like this: to be weak, to be cute, to be pitiful, as long as a woman can act like a baby, can dress up, and obey her husband.

In this day and age, women cannot have their own ideas, let alone participate in work and own their own careers. If a girl is proficient in mathematics, she must hide it, otherwise she will be dishonored.

Like Scarlett, she was shrewd and gifted with mental arithmetic.In another era, if she had been systematically educated, maybe she would be an outstanding manager on Wall Street.But in this era, she can't get relevant education. Even if she went to girls' school, what she learns is needlework, etiquette and other window-dressing things, and at most a little music, some natural science, some mathematics, she There is no chance to study in school.

Therefore, Scarlett could only hide it.Even in the original book, the war destroyed many customs. For the livelihood of the family and because of the sense of security, Scarlett started to run her own business and showed excellent mental arithmetic ability in front of men-she could do it in a very short time. In the short period of time, directly calculate the profit clearly by mental calculation.

This kind of quality that a professional manager must have, because Scarlett is a woman, makes her rejected by the women in Atlanta.In Atlanta, among the original Southern socialites, Scarlett was ostracized by all but Melanie, because Scarlett ran her own business, and because Scarlett showed herself to men. Mental arithmetic ability!

Now, the South has not yet been defeated, and this kind of discrimination against women will only be more serious than the discrimination encountered by Scarlett after the defeat in the original book.

Margot had to convince everyone present that if she couldn't get the support of these people, then when things broke out in the future, neither she nor her sister Suellen could end well.

Although Margot never thought that there was anything wrong with Suellen's behavior.

Marge also firmly believes that the purpose of protecting her own homeland cannot be wrong.Time will prove right in the means they adopt.

However, what they did did not meet society's standards for women.

So, if they really want to protect their homeland, they have to convince those present.

Especially Frank Kennedy.

This man, it is very clear in the original book, this man's temperament is relatively meek and weak. In the original book, Frank Kennedy can't do anything to Scarlett.

Margot worried that this man would leave Suellen because he could not bear the pressure from outside.

If Suellen was abandoned for such a reason, or even suffered misfortune, it would be intolerable to Margot.

Because Margot knew that if Frank abandoned Suellen because of the seduction of other women-in the South, this is almost impossible, because it does not conform to the rules and morals of the South-then, at least public opinion in Suellen Here, even if Suellen was abandoned, others would only blame Frank.Public opinion will not be against Suellen, Suellen can still marry, maybe even better.

But if Frank abandons Suellen in the future because the sisters chose to protect the South by more means than women, then in the eyes of the southerners, it is the sisters who are wrong.The whole society can only blame Suellen.At that time, it was useless for Suellen to go to the monastery.

This is absolutely not allowed by Margot.

She had to convince Frank that she had to make what they were doing so sacred, beyond reproach--in fact, their sisters' purpose was beyond reproach, but what they did was beyond reproach. The requirements of this era for women.And this kind of behavior, if men are willing to bear it, then outsiders will have no way to accuse a lady from a superior family.

Because men are on the battlefield and cannot be distracted from these things, they leave things to their wives and let the wives follow their orders step by step.

This is also in line with the standards of the South.

What Margot had to do was to convince the men present, let these men, especially Frank Kennedy, let these men endorse their sister's actions.

This is the best way to protect their sisters,

It is also an important guarantee to make their careers, or in other words, their interests last.