英语翻译The story opens on a large cotton plantation named Tara

英语翻译
The story opens on a large cotton plantation named Tara in rural Georgia in 1861,on the eve of the American Civil War.Scarlett O‘Hara is the eldest of three daughters of Irish immigrant Gerald O’Hara and his wife,Ellen.She is seemingly sought after by every young man in the county,except the refined Ashley Wilkes,for whom Scarlett longs.She is upset to hear of Ashley’s imminent engagement to his cousin Melanie Hamilton,to be announced the next day at a barbecue at his family’s home,the nearby plantation Twelve Oaks.