Chapter 32 Summary

Scarlett returns to the house with the red clay still in her hand. Jonas Wilkerson and his new bride, Emmie Slattery, ride up dressed in fine clothes and in a shiny new carriage. Jonas tells Scarlett that he would like to buy Tara for his new bride. Angry in even thinking that a Scalawag like Jonas and white trash like Emmie would be living in her beloved Tara causes Scarlett to lash out. Scarlett yells that the woman who killed Ellen will never live at Tara, and she will burn down the house before she lets scum like them live there. Jonas tells her that he will make sure she will never be able to pay the taxes on Tara and he will just take the house from her rather than make her an honest offer. Scarlett spits at the carriage as the...