求英文版飘中的人名，剧情介绍，人物简介

原著：《飘》（玛格丽特·米切尔著）
电影：《乱世佳人》（GONE WITH THE WIND）
导演：维克多·弗莱明
主演：费雯丽、克拉克·盖博、李斯利·霍华德、 奥莉薇·黛·哈佛兰
类型：剧情 爱情 战争
上映：1939年01月15日
地区：美国
时长：238 分钟
颜色：彩色
对白：英语
出品：米高梅公司

影片简介
《乱世佳人》（GONE WITH THE WIND）是好莱坞影史上最值得骄傲的一部旷世巨片，影片放映时间长达4小时，观者如潮。其魅力贯穿整个20世纪，因此有好莱坞“第一巨片”之称。影片当年耗资400多万美元，历时三年半完成，其间数换导演，银幕上出现了60多位主要演员和9000多名配角演员。在1939年的第12届奥斯卡奖中一举夺得八项金像奖，轰动美国影坛。这部耗资巨大，场景豪华，战争场面宏大逼真的历史巨片，以它令人称道的艺术成就成为美国电影史上一部经典作品，令人百看不厌。
1861年南北战争爆发的前夕，塔拉庄园的千金小姐斯佳丽爱上了另一庄园主的儿子阿希礼，但阿希礼却选择了查尔斯的表妹——温柔善良的玫兰妮为终身伴侣。斯佳丽出于妒恨，抢先嫁给了玫兰妮的哥哥查尔斯。不久，美国南北战争爆发了。阿希礼和查尔斯作为征兵上了前线。查尔斯很快就在战争中死去了。斯佳丽成了寡妇， 但她内心却一直热恋着阿希礼。
一天，在一次举行义卖的舞会上，斯佳丽和风度翩翩的商人瑞特相识。瑞特开始追求斯佳丽，但遭到她的拒绝。斯佳丽一心只想着去追求阿希礼，结果也遭到拒绝。
在战争中，美国南方军遭到失败，亚特兰大城里挤满了伤兵。斯佳丽和妹妹玫兰妮自愿加入护士行列照顾伤兵。目睹战乱带来的惨状，任性的斯佳丽成熟了不少。这时，从前线传来消息，北方军快打过来了，不少人家惊惶地开始逃离家园，而斯佳丽的母亲和两个妹妹也患病了，斯佳丽十分想要回去塔拉庄园，回到敬爱的母亲身边。不巧玫兰妮要生孩子了，斯佳丽只好留下来照顾她。
在北方军大军压境之日，斯佳丽哀求瑞特帮忙护送她和刚生下孩子的玫兰妮回塔拉庄园。瑞特告诉斯佳丽他不能目睹南方军溃败而不去助一臂之力，他要参加南方军作战，他留下一把手枪并和斯佳丽拥吻告别。斯佳丽只好独自勇敢地驾驶马车回到塔拉庄园，这时家里已被北方军士兵抢先洗动一空，母亲已在她回到家的前一天病逝，而父亲因为受到太大打击而精神错乱。
不久，战争结束了。生活依然困苦。北方来的统治者要庄园主缴纳重税，斯佳丽在绝望中去亚特兰大城找瑞特借钱，但得知他已被关进监狱。归来的途中，斯佳丽遇上了本来要迎娶她妹妹的暴发户弗兰克，为了要重振破产的家业，她骗取弗兰克和自己结了婚。
斯佳丽在弗兰克经营的木材厂非法雇用囚犯，并和北方来的商人大做生意。此时，瑞特因用钱贿赂而恢复了自由。两人偶然碰面，再次展开爱恨交织的关系。
弗兰克和阿希礼因加入了反政府的秘密组织，在一次集会时遭北方军包围，弗兰克中弹死亡，阿希礼负伤逃亡，在瑞特的帮助下回到玫兰妮身边。斯佳丽再次成为寡妇。此时，瑞特前来向她求婚，她终于与一直爱她的搞私运军火和粮食致富的瑞特结了婚。婚后，夫妻二人住在亚特兰大的豪华大宅。一年后，女儿邦妮出生，瑞特把全部感情投注到邦妮身上。斯佳丽偶然翻阅阿希礼的照片被瑞特发现，终于导致了二人感情的破裂。其后，在阿希礼的生日会前夕，斯佳丽与阿希礼相见时热情的拥抱引起旁人非议，但玫兰妮不相信他们之间有暧昧关系。瑞特可不这样想。
当斯佳丽告诉瑞特她已经再次怀孕时，瑞特怀疑地问那是谁的孩子？斯佳丽在羞怒之下欲打瑞特，却不慎滚下楼梯引起流产。瑞特感到内疚，决心同斯佳丽言归于好，不料就在他俩谈话时，小女儿邦妮意外坠马摔死了。与此同时不幸的事也在另一个家庭里发生，玫兰妮终因操劳过度卧病不起。临终前，她把自己的丈夫阿希礼和儿子托付给斯佳丽，但要求她保守这个秘密，斯佳丽不顾一切扑向艾希利的怀中，紧紧拥抱住他，站在一旁的瑞特无法再忍受下去，而转身离去。面对伤心欲绝毫无反应的阿希礼，斯佳丽终于明白，她爱的阿希礼其实是不存在的，她真正需要的是瑞特。
当斯佳丽赶回家里告诉瑞特，她是真正爱他的时候，瑞特已不再相信她。他决心离开斯佳丽，返回老家去寻找美好的事物，被遗弃的斯佳丽站在浓雾迷漫的院中，想起了父亲曾经对她说过的一句话：“世界上唯有土地与明天同在。”她决定守在她的土地上重新创造新的生活，她期盼着美好的明天的到来。
本片在第十二届奥斯卡金像奖中荣获八项大奖：最佳影片奖、最佳艺术指导奖、最佳编剧奖、最佳导演奖、最佳摄影奖、最佳女主角奖、最佳女配角奖和最佳剪辑奖。

乱世佳人的人物性格
斯佳丽
一个猫一样的女人。有着猫一样的目光，猫一样的微笑，猫一样的步伐和猫一样的敏捷。那么，这个猫一样的女人提供给我们是怎样的一些对待生活、对待爱情、对待困难和挫折的态度和经验呢？
第一她在困难的时候敢于承担责任，虽然也有动摇，但最后仍然承担责任,比如她救了玫兰妮，她重振塔拉庄园,后来长期扶助阿希礼一家等等。
第二她敢于去爱、无怨无悔，她的整个青春都在爱着阿希礼，没有回报但她仍没有放弃努力，直到能力的极限为止。
第三知错能改，当她最后明白她之前所为是错误时，她马上向瑞特道歉，请求原谅。
总的来说，斯佳丽堪称巾帼不让须眉的奇女子，人中龙凤，难怪瑞特这样的牛人也拜倒在她的石榴裙下。每次看《乱世佳人》，每次都有不同的收获。年轻时看，讨厌虚荣爱出风头的斯佳丽，喜欢纯洁善良的玫兰妮，不喜欢油腔滑调的瑞特巴特勒，喜欢温文尔雅的阿希礼，喜欢南方如画的景致和田园牧歌式的生活，不喜欢北方的浮华和放荡。后来看了多次之后，不由得对斯佳丽敬佩起来，原本是一个弱女子，任性而年青，第一次结婚是一时的冲动报复，嫁给了不爱的男孩，让自己成为了年轻的寡妇。第二次结婚是为了一家人的生存，抢走了妹妹的心上人，肯尼迪。肯尼迪虽然是一个半老头子，却不是斯佳丽的对手，面对她的冷酷和无情，他束手无策。最终为了斯佳丽差点遭受的侮辱去报复穷白人而被人击毙，不幸枉死，却从未享受过斯佳丽的一点爱。于是斯佳丽再次成为寡妇，而且还是个有钱的寡妇。在那个战火纷飞的年代，为了答应过阿希礼照顾玫兰妮的一句承诺，在北军就要攻占亚特兰大的时候，斯佳丽又果断地替玫兰妮接生，并找到瑞特冲破重重阻碍和关卡，回到了乡下老家－－塔拉庄园。在又饥又饿之时，她又遭受了母亲病亡、父亲痴呆、家里被劫，一穷二白的多重打击，她不屈不挠，带头种田干活，喝令妹妹下床摘棉花，并照顾玫兰妮和小波，支撑一家人的生计，那时她顶多也不过是个二十来岁的小姑娘，本应是个在母亲怀里撒娇的小姑娘。可是面对如此巨大的困难，她没有选择逃避，而是勇敢挑起家里的重担，以常人难以企及的毅力抗争命运，每每看到斯佳丽举着萝卜向天盟誓，决不愿让家人再受苦挨饿时，我总是觉得拍片导演对光线和背景的运用是那么巧妙和艺术， 它那么生动地刻划了思嘉渴望安定、渴望生存、渴望富裕的强烈而真实的内心情感。我觉得那时的她，已完成了最艰难的嬗变，由一只丑陋的毛毛虫破茧而出变成了美丽的蝶，自由而高贵，那时的思嘉就像一个女神－－－渴望富有、并为此能不择手段的欲望女神。
刚强、坚韧
无论是面对战争的废墟和硝烟、母亲和父亲的去世、生活的贫穷艰难还是女儿的夭折，在和她承受同样的痛苦和艰难的人们当中，她都是最刚强、最坚韧的一个和最先从痛苦和艰难中走出来的一个。当斯佳丽面对着已是满目伤痕泰勒庄园时，她的坚韧和刚强令她这个家中的长女担起家长的重担。在影片的末尾，她还坚定地告诉我们：Tomorrow is another day。
虚荣
这应该是一个贬义词了，可是，斯佳丽的虚荣心似乎格外的可爱，在她的身上，虚荣似乎也变成了褒义词。有位名模曾说：“女孩子总是要有一点虚荣心的，无论这虚荣心表现在什么方面。”当斯佳丽扯下母亲唯一的遗物——窗帘，无论如何也要用它做一件漂亮的衣服，还将它披在身上憧憬着新衣服的样子时，她的虚荣心使她成了一个看起来不孝的女儿，但她的这种做法（也就是她的虚荣心）是当时拯救全家的唯一出路。由虚荣心而使全家人都有了生存下去的希望，这样的虚荣心也不应该算是值得摒弃的。
贪婪
这总应该是个贬义词了。但是，斯佳丽的贪婪不仅是有情可原的，在某种程度上来讲还是难能可贵的。战后的泰勒庄园在北方军的控制之下，母亲的去世和父亲的崩溃使斯佳丽——家中的长女担起了“家长”的重担。斯佳丽一家人过着艰辛的生活。战争使她贫穷，贫穷继之以饥饿。然而最可怕的是无钱交税险些失去生活来源的土地，为了借钱交税，斯佳丽勾引了妹妹的情人，继而当起了一家小店的老板娘。在经历这一切后，她明白了她所处的是一个什么样的社会以及在这个社会中钱的重要性。所以，当她拥有了当前她所需要的钱之后，她自然会想拥有更多的钱。在她追求“更多的钱”的过程中，她表现出了一个早期资本主义的资本家所必须具有的优秀品质——贪婪。
残忍与自私
这两个词无论用在什么人身上似乎都应该是表贬义的词语，特别是以温和、善良为美德的女性。但是，斯佳丽的残忍与自私在某种适度上却是值得褒扬的。首先，在社会转型的时期，人的观念需要从传统的观念转变成为新型的、与社会发展相适应的观念。不能在第一时间内转变观念的人就失去了领导时代的主动权。斯佳丽就是一个在第一时间内转变观念，接受了新的社会和社会制度、新的价值观念、新的生活方式，并且成为了一个小资本家的女人，在这一点，她是非常了不起的。而且，在刚刚建立了资本主义制度时，自私和残忍对于一个资本家来说是生存和发展的关键。在资本主义社会，对世界的博爱已经是阻碍资本的自身生存和发展的一个因素，此时，自私与残忍就成了强者的优点。
美丽
斯佳丽为我们提供了一种对待爱情的态度。她美丽，但她只是适当地运用她的美丽来得到她所喜爱的东西，从来不用自己的美貌来玩弄爱情，无论是自己的还是他人的爱情。斯佳丽是美丽的，但美丽不是拥有爱情的必备条件——你可以没有斯佳丽那样美丽动人，但你也有权利去追求属于自己的爱情。
综上所述，我们得出了这样的一个结论：
斯佳丽，猫一样的女人，刚强的、坚韧的、虚荣的、贪婪的、残忍的、自私的女人，女人的典范。

瑞特
我必须承认，对我来说，《乱世佳人》的吸引力之所以这么大，和克拉克盖博主演的瑞特巴特勒绝对有关系。
当然，斯佳丽眯着那双像猫那样的绿眼，迷人而妖媚，同样也让人倾倒。她是个让女人都能为之神魂颠倒的女人，她自私、冷酷、无情、聪明、不择手段、坚强，却不乏善良、美丽、脆弱；她是一个高不可攀的女神，让许多女人都梦想着能像她那样，集财富、美貌、能干、坚强于一身，让瑞特那样的男人能够为她而倾倒。至少我曾经就那样想过。但我认为，瑞特给我们这些女性观众带来的却更多是对爱情和婚姻的甜美幻想，他是那么潇洒倜傥，那么玩世不恭，那么自信过人，富有并充满了成熟男人的魅力，该是多少女性心目中的偶像啊。
在这里，简单回闪思嘉和瑞特相遇、相识、相爱的几个片段，就能让人对瑞特爱我所爱，坚持自儿，富有个性的男性魅力印象深刻：
片段一：瑞特第一次见到斯佳丽是在十二像树园的烧烤会上。斯佳丽向所有的男士卖弄风情，却发现瑞特正注意她，斯佳丽向身边的女伴抱怨说：“他看我的样子，就像我没穿衣服”可见瑞特给人的感觉不是温文尔雅，富有绅士风度，对世事的有种别人所不具备的强大洞察力和影响力，表明了他与一般的南方男人不同点：现实、大胆而富有进攻性，当他躲在书房里偷听斯佳丽大胆地向阿希礼表露爱慕，但因遭到婉拒，她气急败坏地搧了阿希礼一个耳光，并砸碎了一个小花瓶时，他吹了一个口哨，于是他被斯佳丽指责为不是一个绅士，而他同时也反唇相讥斯佳丽不是一个真正的淑女，让斯佳丽气极。俩人第一次相见就是一次爱情的交锋。
片段二：斯佳丽因查尔斯病亡到亚特兰大散心，正在服丧的她，十分渴望能再度飞旋于舞池中，表现了她在内心里对无拘无束、自由生活的向往和憧憬。是瑞特看出了她的心思，并出重金替她撬开了那个压抑而沉闷的社会道德囚笼，使她走上了和别的南方女人最不相同的命运之路。这正是斯佳丽反叛旧的社会道德标准迈出的关键性一步，而这一步，如果没有瑞特暗中巧妙的支持和安排，斯佳丽是决不会踏出的。如果没了这关键一步，那么日后那个能干、要强、并独当一面的乱世佳人---斯佳丽就决不会存在了！
片段三：瑞特为了帮助斯佳丽重返故里，拼死弄了一匹身负重伤的老马，并帮助她把玫兰妮抱到马车上，同时一路历经辛苦，并在即将要到达的时候，瑞特看到许多南方兵前仆后继，视死如归，深感震撼，并决定上战场，为保卫家园尽一份力。这时可以看出，为了心爱的女人，他能出生入死； 同样，面临家园被毁之境，他也是一个热血之人，导演在这里才向我们描绘了一个深藏在平日玩世不恭外表下，也具有一颗为荣誉甘洒热血之心的典型南方男性的形象。在这里我们看到，虽然瑞特平日里非常精明、现实，但他骨子里其实还是一个南方人。
片段四：瑞特在经历了丧女之痛和斯佳丽在精神上的背叛后，面对玫兰妮的之死，对一切都灰心失望至极，回家收拾行李，返回自己的故乡，查尔斯顿。当愚蠢的斯佳丽最后发现自己已深爱瑞特时，才发现已最终失去了自己最心爱的人。瑞特最后走得十分干脆，让斯佳丽深感懊悔。直到这里，我们才听到那颗曾经为爱而柔软的心破碎的声音，同时也因为破碎而对斯佳丽变得“冷酷无情”，这里的瑞特才让我们感觉到，这个男人敢爱敢恨，处理事情十分干脆利落，极富男性魅力。
再说说阿希礼和美兰妮，他们是相似的，具备南方的一切美德，有知识，有文化，有思想，有修养。
美兰妮基本上是完美的，她善良，仁慈又不乏勇气，斯佳丽摘棉花时，她想帮忙，斯佳丽杀人时她也帮忙，除了瑞特，她是斯佳丽的另一个支持者。我想电影编剧一定喜欢美兰妮，他把她更神化了，连捐出结婚戒指这件事都把带头者从斯佳丽改成了美兰妮。我做过小范围的调查，先看书的基本都喜欢斯佳丽，而先看电影的则喜欢美兰妮。我觉得美兰妮太好了，好得不真实，而斯佳丽是有血有肉的，是真实的，有缺点也有优点。
阿希礼是真实的，他是个活在过去的人，时世变迁，他不想面对，他是缺乏勇气的。他不爱斯佳丽，又不说不爱她。斯佳丽走投无路找他时他只给了她庄园的红土，后来知道斯佳丽卖了自己，他说他该去抢劫，他也只是说说吧，估计不会去的，这一点，他确实不如拖这军刀想帮斯佳丽对付逃兵的美兰妮。
乱世佳人里的人物都是完美的，如果没有美兰妮的淑女风范，怎能体现出斯佳丽的桀骜不逊。没有阿希礼的懦弱，怎能体现出瑞德的风范呢。
斯佳丽的奶妈.玛格丽特
温暖，可靠，安全。象母亲一样时刻保护她的孩子斯佳丽。
理智，聪明，现实而且冷静，带一些黑人的狡猾。她懂斯斯佳丽，支持她，爱她，虽然没有多说什么，但是她一直是斯佳丽的靠山，坚强有力。
忠诚，固执，可爱。对自己的宝贝，那是不顾一切的去保护；虽然只是一个家奴，但她有自己所要维护的处事原则。
黑人奶妈的形象刻画的非常成功。 由此扮演黑妈的演员哈蒂·麦克丹尼尔(Hattie McDaniel）战胜了奥丽维亚(美兰妮)获得了第十二届奥斯卡最佳女配角奖，据说是历史上第一个获得奥斯卡奖的黑人。哈蒂将其特有的幽默感注入奶妈玛格丽特一形象中，台词念得完美无缺，与斯佳丽的扮演者费雯丽配合默契，犹如绿叶扶红花，结果两人双双获奖。由于奶妈一角的成功，哈蒂后来几乎垄断了银幕上所有的黑人保姆角色，在许多影片里可以看到她那肥胖、温顺、饶舌的形象。

人物：
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara
Clark Gable as Rhett Butler
Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes
Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton
Thomas Mitchell as Gerald O'Hara
Barbara O'Neil as Ellen O'Hara
Evelyn Keyes as Suellen O'Hara
Ann Rutherford as Carreen O'Hara
George Reeves as Stuart Tarleton (miscredited on screen as Brent Tarleton). Reeves, better known for his role as "Superman", made his movie debut as one of Scarlett's suitors.
Fred Crane as Brent Tarleton (miscredited as Stuart Tarleton)
Hattie McDaniel as Mammy
Oscar Polk as Pork
Butterfly McQueen as Prissy
Victor Jory as Jonas Wilkerson
Everett Brown as Big Sam
Howard C. Hickman as John Wilkes
Alicia Rhett as India Wilkes
Rand Brooks as Charles Hamilton
Carroll Nye as Frank Kennedy
Marcella Martin as Cathleen Calvert
Laura Hope Crews as Aunt Pittypat Hamilton
Eddie Anderson as Uncle Peter
Harry Davenport as Dr. Meade
Leona Roberts as Mrs. Meade
Jane Darwell as Dolly Merriwether
Ward Bond as Union Sergeant Tom
Paul Hurst as Yankee Deserter
Cammie King as Bonnie Blue Butler
Ona Munson as Belle Watling
Eric Linden as Amputation case
Cliff Edwards as Reminiscent Soldier

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剧情：
The story opens on a large cotton plantation named Tara in rural Georgia in 1861, on the eve of the American Civil War. Scarlett O'Hara is the eldest of three daughters of Irish immigrant Gerald O’Hara and his wife, Ellen. She is seemingly sought after by every young man in the county, except the refined Ashley Wilkes, for whom Scarlett longs. She is upset to hear of Ashley’s imminent engagement to his cousin Melanie Hamilton, to be announced the next day at a barbecue at his family’s home, the nearby plantation Twelve Oaks.

Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind. Photo: Howard Frank ArchivesAt Twelve Oaks, she notices she is being admired by a handsome but roguish visitor, Rhett Butler, who had been disowned by his Charleston family. Rhett finds himself in further disfavor among the male guests when, during a discussion of the probability of war, he states that the South has no chance against the superior numbers and industrial might of the North.

When Scarlett is alone with Ashley, she confesses her love for him. He admits he finds Scarlett attractive, but says that he and the gentle Melanie are more compatible. She accuses Ashley of misleading her and slaps him in anger, which is heightened when she realizes that Rhett has overheard the whole conversation. “Sir, you are no gentleman!” she protests, to which he replies, “And you, miss, are no lady!”

The barbecue is disrupted by the announcement that war has broken out, and the men rush to enlist. As Scarlett watches Ashley kiss Melanie goodbye, Melanie’s shy young brother Charles Hamilton, with whom Scarlett had been innocently flirting, asks for her hand in marriage before he goes. She consents, they are married, and she is just as quickly widowed when Charles dies not in battle, but of pneumonia.

Scarlett's mother sends her to the Hamilton home in Atlanta to cheer her up, although the O’Hara's outspoken housemaid Mammy tells Scarlett she knows she is going there “like a spider”, to wait for Ashley’s return. Scarlett and Melanie attend a charity ball in Atlanta, where Rhett makes a surprise appearance. He has become an heroic blockade runner for the Confederacy. Scarlett shocks Atlanta society by accepting his bid for a dance, even though she is still in mourning. While they dance, Rhett tells her of his intention to win her, which she says will never happen.

The tide of war turns against the Confederacy after the Battle of Gettysburg. Scarlett makes another unsuccessful appeal to Ashley’s heart while he is visiting on Christmas furlough. Eight months later, as the city is besieged by the Union Army in the Atlanta Campaign, Melanie goes into a premature and difficult labor. Scarlett must deliver the child herself. Rhett appears with a horse and wagon to take them out of the city on a perilous journey through the burning depot and warehouse district. He leaves her with a kiss on the road to Tara. She repays him with a slap, to his bemusement, as he goes off to fight with the Confederate Army.

On her journey back home, Scarlett finds Twelve Oaks burned out and deserted. She is relieved to find Tara still standing, but learns that her mother has just died and her father's mind has begun to crumble under the strain. With Tara pillaged by Union troops, and the fields untended, Scarlett vows she will do anything for the survival of her family and herself: “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again!”

Intermission
Scarlett sets her family and servants to picking the cotton fields. She also kills a Union deserter who threatens her during a burglary, and finds gold coins in his haversack, enough to sustain her family and servants for a short time. With the defeat of the Confederacy and war's end, Ashley returns from being a prisoner of war. Mammy restrains Scarlett from running to him when he reunites with Melanie. The dispirited Ashley finds he is of little help to Tara, and when Scarlett begs him to run away with her, he confesses his desire for her and kisses her passionately, but says he cannot leave Melanie.

Gerald O'Hara dies after he is thrown from his horse while chasing a Yankee carpetbagger, one of his former plantation workers, off his property. Scarlett is left to care for the family, and realizes she cannot pay the taxes on Tara. Knowing that Rhett is in Atlanta and believing he is still rich, she has Mammy make an elaborate gown for her from her mother’s drapes. However, upon her visit, Rhett tells her his foreign bank accounts have been blocked, and that her attempt to get his money has been in vain. However, as she departs, she encounters her sister’s fiancé, the middle-aged Frank Kennedy, who now owns a successful general store and lumber mill.

Soon Scarlett is Mrs. Frank Kennedy. She becomes a hardheaded businesswoman, willing to trade with the despised Yankee carpetbaggers and use convict laborers in her mill. When Ashley is about to take a job offer with a bank in the north, Scarlett preys on his weakness by weeping that she needs him to help run the mill; pressured by the sympathetic Melanie, he relents. One day, after Scarlett is attacked while driving alone through a nearby shantytown, Frank, Ashley, and others make a night raid on the shantytown. Ashley is wounded in a melee with Union troops, and Frank is killed.

With Frank’s funeral barely over, Rhett visits Scarlett and proposes marriage. Scarlett is aghast at his poor taste, but takes him up on his offer. After a honeymoon in New Orleans, Rhett promises to restore Tara, while Scarlett builds the biggest and most crassly opulent mansion in Atlanta. The two have a daughter, Bonnie. Rhett adores her as a less spoiled version of her mother, and does everything to win the good opinion of Atlanta society for his daughter’s sake. Scarlett, still pining for Ashley and chagrined at the ruin of her figure, lets Rhett know that she wants no more children and that they will no longer share a bed. In anger, he kicks open the door that separates their bedrooms to show her that he will decide that.

When visiting the mill one day, Scarlett listens to a nostalgic Ashley wish for the simpler days of old that are now gone, and when she consoles him with an embrace, they are spied by two gossips including Ashley's sister India, who has always held a grudge against Scarlett. They eagerly spread the rumor and Scarlett’s reputation is again sullied. Later that night, Rhett, having heard the rumors, forces Scarlett out of bed and to attend a birthday party for Ashley in her most flamboyant red dress. Incapable of believing anything bad of her beloved sister-in-law, Melanie stands by Scarlett's side so that all know that she believes the gossip to be false.

At home later that night, Scarlett finds Rhett downstairs drunk. Blind with jealousy, he tells Scarlett that he could kill her if he thought it would make her forget Ashley. Picking her up, he carries her up the stairs in his arms, telling her, "This is one night you're not turning me out." She awakens the next morning with the look of guilty pleasure, but Rhett returns to apologize for his behavior and offers a divorce, which Scarlett rejects saying it would be a disgrace. Rhett decides to takes Bonnie on an extended trip to London.

When Rhett returns with Bonnie, Scarlett is delighted to see him however he rebuffs her attempts at reconciliation. Rhett remarks at how she looks different and Scarlett then resentfully tells him that she is pregnant again. Hurt, Rhett tells her "cheer up. Maybe you'll have an 'accident,'" Enraged, Scarlett lunges at him, falls down the stairs and suffers a miscarriage. Rhett, frantic with guilt, cries to Melanie about his jealousy, yet refrains from telling Melanie about Scarlett's true feelings for Ashley.

As Scarlett recovers, and Rhett attempts reconciliation, while young Bonnie, as impulsive as her grandfather, dies in a fall from her pony when she attempts to jump a fence. Scarlett and Rhett are devastated and exchange recriminations over her death, with Rhett keeping vigil over his daughter's body for three days, refusing to let her be taken away for burial. Melanie visits to comfort them, and convinces Rhett to allow Bonnie to be laid to rest, but then collapses in labor from a pregnancy she was warned could kill her. On her deathbed, she asks Scarlett to look after Ashley for her, as Scarlett had looked after her for Ashley. With her dying breath, Melanie also tells Scarlett to be kind to Rhett, that he loves her. Outside, Ashley collapses in tears, helpless without his wife. Only then does Scarlett realize that she never could have meant anything to him, and that she had loved something that never really existed.

She runs home to find Rhett packing to leave her, saying it is too late to salvage their marriage. She begs him not to leave, telling him she realizes now that she had loved him all along, that she never really loved Ashley. Rhett tells her that as long as there was Bonnie, whom he could spoil and love unconditionally, as he wished he could with Scarlett, there was a chance that they could have been happy, but now that chance was gone.

As Rhett walks out the door, she begs him, "Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?" He answers,

“ Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. ”

and walks away into the fog. She sits on her stairs and weeps in despair, "What is there that matters?" She then recalls the voices of her father Gerald, Ashley and Rhett, all of whom remind her that her strength comes from Tara itself. Hope lights Scarlett's face: "Tara! Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!" In the final scene, Scarlett stands once more, resolute, before Tara.