A Woman At The Plantation Chapter Summary

The story starts of in the spring time of 1861 with the main character Scarlett O’Hara, a Southern girl who lives on a large plantation in Georgia called Tara. She is well known and chased after by many men around town but has hopes on marrying a man by the name of Ashley Wilkes, but later on hears that he is engaged to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton. During a barbecue held at Ashely’s family plantation, Scarlett pulls Ashely to the side to admit her love for him. Ashley does his best to explain to Scarlett that he loves her as well but chooses to marry Melanie because the two of them are very alike in many ways, where he and she are almost complete opposites. After she slaps Ashley in the face and leaves she sees that Rhett Butler saw the
Eventually the set fire to Atlanta and Melanie gives birth to her son, Beau. Rhett helps the ladies escape the Yankees, leading them through the burning streets out the city, but at the end he tells them to go on while he joins to fight alongside with the Confederate Army. When Scarlett arrives home she finds her mother has died and that her father has gone insane, along with the obvious fact that and the Yankee army has looted and almost completely destroyed their plantation. Scarlett takes charge of rebuilding Tara. The war finally ends and Ashley is finally free and a stream of returning soldiers begins making their way home passing through Tara. A one-legged homeless Confederate named Will Benteen, stays on and helps Scarlett with the plantation. Jonas Wilkerson, a former employee at Tara and current government official, had raised taxes on Tara in order to seek revenge and in hopes to drive the O’Haras out so he would have the plantation for himself. In distress, Scarlett hurries to Atlanta in the search of Rhett who had become a very rich and wealthy man after the war hoping he will give her the money she needed for the taxes. Unfortunately, Rhett is in a Yankee jail and could not help Scarlett. Determined to save her plantation she constructs a plan to steal her sister’s man named Frank and marries him for his money and is able to pay the taxes for Tara. Rhett finds a way to blackmail his way out of prison and lends Scarlett enough money to buy her own sawmill. As a result, Scarlett becomes a wise and successful businesswoman. While in back in Tara for her father’s funeral she influence Ashley and Melanie to come to Atlanta with her and join in a share in her lumber business. Shortly after that, Scarlett gives birth to Frank’s child, Ella Lorena. After Frank dies, Scarlett and Rhett get