Gone with the Wind The pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner of Irish descent, sixteen-year-old Scarlett OHara soon realizes that young men cant resist her charms, despite her forthright manners and her refusal to embrace her mothers ladylike ways. Her romantic intrigues lead her to an early marriage, but when the war between the Union and the Southern States breaks out and she is left a young widow, Scarletts life is turned upside down, and she finds herself embroiled, together with