What Is Gone With The Wind About?

Gone with the Wind basically is, an American novel which was written by Margaret Mitchell, and was released in the year 1936, it went on to bag the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1937.

It was the lone book which was written by Mitchell in her entire life, but it still emerged as the best-selling American books of the 20th century, outdone only by Valley of the Doll which was released during the late 1960s. Reviewers as well as historians believe that the book had a well-built ideological dedication towards the cause of the federation and a romanticized vision of the society of the antebellum south.

The book also has a vibrant depiction of the fall of Atlanta which took place in the year 1864 and the destruction of war and illustrates a substantial quantity of historical investigation.

To put it a lot more specifically:  GONE WITH THE WIND is the story of Scarlett O'Hara, a beautiful but opportunistic daughter of a plantation owner in Georgia at the time of the Civil War.  It deals, in part, with the men in her life including Ashley Wilkes (the scion of the family that owns a neighboring plantation and with whom Scarlett is infatuated) and Rhett Butler, a soldier of fortune whose life intersects with Scarlett's.

Most of Scarlett's life is centered around Tara, the plantation owned by her family.  (As the names "O'Hara" and "Tara" might indicate, Scarlett's family was of Irish descent.)

It's a big, sprawling novel with numerous side characters.  Memo is correct that it tends to romanticize the South before the Civil War.

Hope this helps.