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Plot Summary for Gone with the Wind
1939

Scarlett is a woman who can deal
 with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the
war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry
 his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at
the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War ended.