This superb Gone With the Wind Poster will add a romantic touch to your decoration while giving it an original vintage style!
- Paper characteristics:
- 🎨 Canvas: global standard in terms of printing and imitating a “painting canvas” look.
- By default, the poster contains a 4cm white border for framing (frame not included). If you don’t want it, please choose “without white border”.
- ✅ Size: Multiple choices available. ✅
- High UV resistance.
- Color vibrancy maximum, glare-free.
- recycled paper, guaranteeing environmental friendliness.
- Poster packaged carefully and delivered in a protective tube for total protection.
- FREE STANDARD DELIVERY.
⚠️ Frame not included. ⚠️
Description of this Gone With the Wind Poster
1861, shortly before the start of the Civil War: Scarlett O’Hara, who grew up on the Tara cotton plantation near Atlanta, is in love with Ashley Wilkes, the heir to the neighboring Twelve Oaks plantation. She learns by chance that Ashley is about to become engaged to her cousin Melanie Hamilton, a kind and silent woman. At a lavish garden party at Twelve Oaks, she tries to convince Ashley to marry her instead of Melanie.
At the party, Scarlett also meets Rhett Butler of Charleston, who has been shunned by his family due to scandal and has a bad reputation—not least because he dares to speak uncomfortable truths, such as the inferiority of the Southern states compared to the Northern states. News that Lincoln has declared war on the Southern states breaks into the garden party. After the party, the Southerners, most of whom are passionate about the war, happily set off for the Civil War. Beforehand, Captain Ashley marries Melanie, and Scarlett spitefully accepts the marriage proposal of Melanie’s naive brother, Charles, one of Scarlett’s countless admirers. Charles dies at training camp a few weeks after the wedding.
Hoping to see Ashley again, Scarlett moves to Atlanta with Melanie and her simple-minded aunt “Pittypat” Hamilton. There, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler again at a charity ball for wounded soldiers. At an “auction” of ladies for the benefit of the hospital, Butler buys Scarlett as a dance partner, although as a widow, she is not expected to dance. Scarlett, frustrated by the society-imposed mourning period, enthusiastically accepts the offer. She begins working at the military hospital with Dr. Meade but is put off by the many seriously wounded soldiers. Adding to this is the fact that the Southern states are increasingly falling behind the Northern states in the war. Finally, the Union army attacks the city during the Atlanta Campaign.
Meanwhile, Scarlett, accompanied by Prissy, a frightened child slave, must assist Melanie during the birth of her son Beau. Rhett Butler then helps them escape to their home plantation, Tara. He gathers a horse and wagon and takes them, Melanie, Beau, and Prissy out of the burning city. He then leaves them to join the retreating Confederate Army. It is during this time that Rhett and Scarlett share their first kiss, but she objects.
When Scarlett arrives at Tara, she finds the body of her mother, who died the previous night of typhus. Her father, the proud plantation owner Gerald, has lost his mind, her two sisters are ill, and, in addition to the Union soldiers, Confederate raiders and freed slaves have taken almost everything. Only two servants from the O’Hara family, one of whom is Mammy, remain; the previously wealthy slave owners discover hunger and poverty and must help out in the fields themselves.
In this situation, Scarlett becomes the head of the family, finds food, tries to restore order to daily life, pushes everyone to work, and even kills a marauding Union soldier to protect his home and family. Scarlett and Melanie also take care of the Southern soldiers returning from captivity, among whom is Ashley. Once again, Scarlett tries to win him over and even wants to run away with him. But Ashley is traumatized by the war and has taken refuge in an illusory antebellum world.
As high taxes are imposed on Tara and former slave keeper Jonas Wilkerson threatens to buy the plantation in a forced sale, Scarlett tries to raise money. During a visit from Wilkerson, Scarlett’s still-troubled father is so upset that he falls from his horse and dies. Meanwhile, Scarlett goes to see Rhett Butler, a prisoner of war in the Atlanta jail. She flatters him into borrowing the money. Rhett understands her insincerity and refuses.
In her distress, Scarlett marries Frank Kennedy, her sister Suellen’s fiancé of many years, in order to obtain his money, as he has a small fortune from a successful store. Scarlett persuades Frank to enter the lumber business and takes over the sawmill. She is criticized by society for employing convicts as laborers under harsh conditions, trading with Yankees, and often traveling alone unaccompanied. After an attack on Scarlett, her husband participates in an act of revenge that costs him his life. The others involved, including Ashley and Dr. Meade, narrowly escape and are suspected by the Northerners of seeking to take justice into their own hands. Rhett finally intervenes by giving them an excuse and thus saving their lives.
Rhett Butler, who had long been in love with Scarlett, proposes to her, which she accepts. He attempts to win his wife’s love by showering her with luxury and traveling with her. They notably build a sumptuous villa in Atlanta. The marriage remains only superficially happy, however, as Scarlett still clings to her supposed love for Ashley. Scarlett gives birth to a daughter. She subsequently refuses to have sex with Rhett, worried about her figure and fearing further pregnancies.
One day, she meets Ashley at the sawmill, and the two talk about their post-war memories. Ashley thanks Scarlett for everything she has done for him and Melanie and hugs her. This scene is witnessed by Ashley’s sister, India, who suspects an affair and spreads rumors about it. Scarlett therefore doesn’t dare go to Ashley’s birthday party. Rhett finally forces her to go. Melanie greets Scarlett lovingly and urges the guests not to ostracize Scarlett. That same evening, a furious and drunk Rhett attacks Scarlett at her home to “erase the invisible third party of her marriage from her mind.”
The next morning, Scarlett is too proud to admit to Rhett how much she enjoyed the night of love, and Rhett announces he is leaving her. He leaves for London with his daughter, who is unhappy there and wants to return. Upon returning from the trip, Rhett learns from Scarlett that she is pregnant again. A violent argument breaks out, during which Scarlett falls down the stairs and miscarries. Rhett is embarrassed by his behavior. The attempt to save their marriage is thwarted by the death of their daughter, who breaks her neck jumping hurdles with her pony. Scarlett and Rhett blame each other for the girl’s death. Rhett nearly loses his mind. He locks himself away for days with his daughter’s body, and only Melanie finally manages to convince him to have the child buried.
Despite doctors’ advice to the contrary, Melanie becomes pregnant again and collapses. On her deathbed, Melanie asks Scarlett to take care of her husband, Ashley, and to reconcile with Rhett, as he would love her so much. After Melanie’s death, Scarlett realizes that her love for Ashley was only a fantasy and that she has found in Rhett Butler her ideal partner, the one she truly loves. She asks Rhett to forgive her. But for him, this realization comes too late. He is indifferent to Scarlett’s pleas not to leave her alone, and he leaves her. Scarlett decides to return to Tara and is determined to win Rhett back.