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Gone with the Wind ——Margaret Mitchell Plot Overview Melanie Ashley Plot Overview It is the spring of 1861. Scarlett O’Hara lives on Tara, a large plantation in Georgia. Scarlett confesses（坦白） her love to Ashley. He tells her that he does love her but that he is marrying Melanie because she is similar to him. Scarlett slaps（巴掌） Ashley. Rhett Butler, a scandalous（潇洒） but dashing adventurer, has been watching the whole scene. Plot Overview The Civil War begins. Scarlett agrees to marry Charles Hamilton, Melanie’s timid, hoping to hurt Ashley. Over the course of two months, Scarlett and Charles marry, Charles joins the army and dies of the measles（麻疹）, and Scarlett learns that she is pregnant（怀孕）. After Scarlett gives birth to a son, Wade, she becomes bored and unhappy. She makes a long trip to Atlanta. She begins to see a great deal of Rhett. Rhett infuriates（激怒） Scarlett with his bluntness（直言） and mockery（嘲笑）, but he also encourages her to flout the severely restrictive social requirements for mourning Southern widows（寡妇）. Plot Overview During the war, Rhett helps Scarlett a lot. She reaches Tara at last. She finds that her mother is dead; her father has lost his mind; and the Yankee army has looted the plantation, leaving no food or cotton. Scarlett takes charge of rebuilding Tara. She murders a Yankee thief and puts out a fire set by a spiteful Yankee soldier. Determined to pays the taxes on Tara, she betrays her sister and marries her sister’s beau（男友）, Frank Kennedy, who now owns a general store. Plot Overview A free black man and his white male companion attack Scarlett on her way home from the sawmill one day. That night, the Ku Klux Klan avenges the attack on Scarlett, and Frank ends up dead. Rhett proposes to Scarlett and she quickly accepts. Scarlett becomes pregnant（怀孕） again and has another child. Scarlett and Rhett’s marriage begins happily, but Rhett becomes increasingly bitter and indifferent toward her. After Bonnie is killed in a horse-riding accid