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As Part 2 opens, Scarlett is shown picking cotton in the fields at
Tara. Later, when she goes inside, a Yankee straggler comes in and tries to steal
what’s left of their money, but Scarlett kills him and takes all of his looted money. The war is finally over!! (1865) Frank Kennedy wants Suellen to marry him, and
Ashley comes home to Tara. But there is trouble, the Yankee carpetbaggers and southern
scalawags have raised the taxes on Tara. Now they are $300 -- an unreachable amount of
money. Ashley and Scarlett talk at the barn. Scarlett confesses her love for him again He
says that he admires her fearlessness. They kiss, and then Scarlett asks Ashley to run
away, then he says that she can’t go because she has too much honor to leave Tara.
Emmy Slattery and Mr. Wilkinson come to Tara and offer to buy it from them. Scarlett tells
them to leave. Gerald gets on his horse to chases them away, but he falls off and dies
from a fall while he is jumping.
Scarlett decides that she’ll go see Rhett in Atlanta and ask him
for the $300. She dresses up in a dress that she made out of curtains. Rhett is in jail,
and he says that he can’t get his money out because it is hidden in Europe. After
this Scarlett runs into Frank Kennedy. She marries him for the $300 , and then she starts
a lumber business with Ashley. As Scarlett is on her way to the mill, she is attacked by
hobos, but Big Sam saves her life.
Later that night, the women are all together, and India tells off
Scarlett for all of the things that she has done. The husbands have gone to the woods to
attack the men who attacked Scarlett. Rhett tries to save them from doing it but it is too
late, Ashley was shot and Frank Kennedy was killed. (Poor Scarlett, widowed again!) Rhett
makes up a lie to tell the Yankees of them being at Belle Whatley’s house, so that
they can get back inside without Ashley getting arrested. Melanie invites Belle to her
house to thank her for saving Ashley’s life.
Scarlett and Rhett are talking and he again asks her to marry him, and
this time she says yes. They go on a grand honeymoon to New Orleans. Scarlett wants to go
back to Tara. They go back, and build a mansion in Atlanta. They have a baby girl named
'Bonnie Blue' Butler. Scarlett doesn’t want to have anymore children because she is
still in love with Ashley. They separate, and Rhett goes to see Belle and she convinces
him to go back, because the Bonnie needs him. Rhett gets drunk one night after
Melanie’s party and he wants to rid Ashley in Scarlett’s mind forever. This is
the famous ‘carry her (to bed) up the Grand Staircase’ scene.
The next morning he apologizes then says he is going to London and
taking Bonnie with him. Bonnie hates it there and says that she wants to go home and see
her mother. Rhett takes Bonnie home, and then says he’s leaving. Scarlett tells him
that she is pregnant, they both say that they don’t want the baby and Rhett says
maybe Scarlett will have an accident. As he says this she falls down the stairs. Scarlett
lost the baby. After some time, Mellie tells Rhett that Scarlett is better. They are on
the patio talking and watching Bonnie, when Bonnie decides that she will jump. But she
does not make it and dies, just like Gerald.
Mammy calls on Mellie to help her, because Scarlett and Rhett are both
distraught. But Mellie is very ill, and falls when she is at their house and never
recovers. Mellie dies shortly after. Scarlett realizes as Mellie dies that her love for
Ashley never existed, and that she really loves Rhett. She rushes home to tell him, but it
is too late. He has already made up his mind to go to Charleston. Scarlett begs him not to
go, "where shall I go .... what shall I do?" But Rhett says, "Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn."
Scarlett believes that she needs to get him back so she says she’ll
go to Tara to think, to the place that gives her strength. "After all," Scarlett
says, "tomorrow is another day."
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