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Scarlett is secretly scornful of Melanie Wilkes, wife to Ashley, who shows nothing but love and devotion towards Scarlett, and considers her a sister throughout her life because Scarlett married Melanie's brother Charles.
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The song " Going to the Chapel " is then played as we see Henrietta marry a member of the guard, Scarlett marry Chester, David marry his girlfriend, Tom marry his distant cousin Deirdre ( whom he met at Charles's wedding and instantly fell for ), Matthew with a new partner ( Duncan Kenworthy ), Fiona marry Prince Charles ( a joke ), and Charles and Carrie with their son -- presumably not married.
The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and depicts the experiences of Scarlett O ' Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.
Scarlett O ' Hara uses the title phrase when she wonders to herself if her home on a plantation called " Tara " is still standing or if it is " gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia.
The Southern belle was bred to conform to a subspecies of the nineteenth-century " lady "... For Scarlett, the ideal is embodied in her adored mother, the saintly Ellen, whose back is never seen to rest against the back of any chair on which she sits, whose broken spirit everywhere is mistaken for righteous calm ...
Rhett is a " terrifying faceless black bulk " when he appears before Scarlett in a drunken jealous rage on the night of Ashley's party.
The reader is told Scarlett O ' Hara, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Gerald and Ellen O ' Hara, " was not beautiful, but " had an effect on men, especially when she took notice of them.
Miss Scarlett learns that one of her many beaux, Ashley Wilkes, is soon to be engaged to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton.
Everyone at the dance is shocked that Rhett would bid for Scarlett, the widow still dressed in black.
Scarlett makes her way to Tara without him where she is welcomed on the steps by her father, Gerald.
There is the ever present threat of the Yankees who steal and burn, and at one point, Scarlett kills a Yankee marauder with a single shot from Charles's pistol leaving " a bloody pit where the nose had been.
As she is leaving the jailhouse, Scarlett runs into Frank Kennedy, who is betrothed to Scarlett's sister, Suellen, and running a store in Atlanta.
Scarlett and secretly
In the novel, Rhett's fortune is estimated at $ 500, 000 ($ as of ) Rhett secretly hopes that Scarlett will eventually return the love he's had since the day he saw her at Twelve Oaks.
However, Scarlett secretly met with Storm Shadow ( who had broken free of his mind control ), and rescued them from a convoy, then escaping to Iceland as vigilantes and hiding out with Scanner, until they could figure out what was going on.
Scarlett and Melanie
Melanie goes into labor with only the inexperienced Scarlett to assist, as all the doctors are busy attending the soldiers.
" Prissy then finds Rhett, and Scarlett begs him to take herself, Wade, Melanie, Beau, and Prissy to Tara.
Melanie soon becomes the center of Atlanta society, and Scarlett gives birth to a girl named Ella Lorena.
Before the party has even begun rumors of an adulterous relationship between Ashley and Scarlett have started, and Rhett and Melanie have heard the gossip.
* Dr. Meade: A doctor in Atlanta, he looks after injured soldiers during the siege, with assistance from Melanie and Scarlett.
Gentlemanly yet indecisive, he loves Scarlett, but finds he has more in common with Melanie, his distant cousin and later his wife.
They meet again when Scarlett has already lost her first husband, Charles Hamilton, while she is staying with Charles ' sister Melanie and their Aunt Pittypat in Atlanta during the war.
He laughs, and turns into the dark, leaving Scarlett alone with Melanie, Beau, her own young son Wade, and Prissy.
At the same time Melanie maintains correspondence with Ashley, and Scarlett is still interested in hearing of his activities.
Melanie seems content with the new situation as Scarlett proves to be a better companion than their elderly aunt.
Scarlett soon finds that, as passively as Melanie usually acts, she can become surprisingly passionate and even aggressive in support of her ideals.
By the summer of 1862, Melanie and Scarlett have been re-acquainted to a man they met during Melanie's engagement celebration: Captain Rhett Butler, at the time about 35 years old.
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