Why does gone with the wind end like that

The film ends with Rhett, finally realizing that Scarlett will always love Ashley, leaving her. Scarlett makes one final plea before Rhett walks out the door, begging him to stay. She returns to her childhood home with an uncertain fate in front of her but determined to make the best of it.

An original version of the script altered this. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. So, how are we supposed to take this? Scarlett says to herself that she's always gotten the men she's wanted, and she's right, more or less she didn't marry Ashley, but he was still hers, kind of. So will she get Rhett back? Or is she deluding herself, lost in a dream of love and a future with Rhett as she was lost in a dream of love and a future with Ashley for the previous thousand or so pages?

There's no way to know really. One thing that is clear, though, is that Scarlett's gumption and determination is linked, throughout the book, to her willingness to push aside unpleasant thoughts. She's always determining to think about something tomorrow, refusing to deal with the bad things in order to move forward and survive.

After the bloody battle of Gettysburg, Ashley is captured and sent to prison, and the Yankee army begins bearing down on Atlanta. Scarlett desperately wants to return home to Tara, but she has promised Ashley she will stay with the pregnant Melanie, who could give birth at any time. On the night the Yankees capture Atlanta and set it afire, Melanie gives birth to her son, Beau. Rhett helps Scarlett and Melanie escape the Yankees, escorting them through the burning streets of the city, but he abandons them outside Atlanta so he can join the Confederate Army.

Scarlett drives the cart all night and day through a dangerous forest full of deserters and soldiers, at last reaching Tara. She arrives to find that her mother, Ellen, is dead; her father, Gerald, has lost his mind; and the Yankee army has looted the plantation, leaving no food or cotton. Scavenging for subsistence, a furious Scarlett vows never to go hungry again. Scarlett takes charge of rebuilding Tara. She murders a Yankee thief and puts out a fire set by a spiteful Yankee soldier.

At last the war ends, word comes that Ashley is free and on his way home, and a stream of returning soldiers begins pouring through Tara. One such soldier, a one-legged homeless Confederate named Will Benteen, stays on and helps Scarlett with the plantation. Distraught, Scarlett hurries to Atlanta to seduce Rhett Butler so that he will give her the three hundred dollars she needs for taxes. Rhett has emerged from the war a fabulously wealthy man, dripping with earnings from his blockade-running operation and from food speculation.

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