Gone With The Wind Name is a term used to refer to the two main characters of the 1939 novel and movie Gone With The Wind, Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. Rhett is a wealthy, charming, and daring Southern gentleman who falls in love with Scarlett, a strong-willed and determined woman from a wealthy plantation family. Together, they experience the trials and tribulations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era.