《飘》这部在中国广受读者喜爱的美国小说引起了学者的重视并被选入新编大学教材。但该如何理解作品存在的诸如对南方历史的自相矛盾的态度以及女权主义意识等复杂的内涵?只有把作品与其独特的历史文化联系起来,才能找到解决问题的钥匙,同时还可发现文学对历史的乌托邦化是中西文学里的一个共相。 “Gone with the Wind”, a popular American novel in China, has drawn the attention of scholars and been chosen as a new textbook for college. However, how to understand the complex connotations of works such as the self-contradictory attitude to the history of the South and feminist consciousness? Only by linking the work with its unique history and culture can we find the key to solve the problem. Meanwhile, Utopia of history is a common phase in Chinese and Western literature.