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Ethan Frome Chapter Summary
2,164 wordsPROLOGUE One thing that sets Ethan Frome apart from other novels is the way the story is told. Edith Wharton doesn't just start at the beginning and tell you what happens. Rather, she uses a narrator who knows no more about Ethan Frome than you do. The narrator, who remains nameless, is a young engineer. He tells you how he uncovered Ethan's story bit by bit. He recounts what people said to him and what he observed during the months he spent in Ethan's hometown one winter long ago. This opening ...
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Ethan Frome Wife Zeena
1,101 wordsIn the introduction of Ethan Frome, the narrator finds himself in Starkfield, Massachusetts for the winter due to a carpenters strike. During this time, he learns the story of Ethan Frome through various people in the town. His first impression of Frome is that he is a quiet and unapproachable man just by encountering him at the post office. When the stable horses fall ill to an epidemic in the town, the narrator is left without a way to the train station each day for his work, a local man, Harm...
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Ethan And Mattie Sense Of Responsibility
507 wordsIn Edith Wharton's book, Ethan Frome, the author descriptively portrayed the inner conflict between the pursuit of pleasure and the burden of obligation as Ethan's life unfolded to the reader. As a creative device, she used the bleak, and barren New England countryside to reflect Ethan's frame of mind. The burden of obligation shrouded Ethan's life. He felt obligated to his parents, their farm, his wife Zeena, and her cousin Mattie. Overcome by his enormous sense of responsibility for others, Et...
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Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
2,630 wordsThey say that if you give a man the necessary tools and supplies, he will build himself a trap. This trap is made unconsciously; therefore, it cannot be escaped; the solution cannot be found. The only solution that suffices is to live with this trap, sadly, for life. But is it the only solution? In Edith Wharton's romantic, yet tragic novel Ethan Frome, the need for affection causes Ethan Frome to gradually shed his taciturnity and bring his emotions to life. Early in the novel, Ethan's passiven...
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Ethan And Mattie Open The Door
4,452 wordsEthan Frome Chapter summary PROLOGUE One thing that sets Ethan Frome apart from other novels is the way the story is told. Edith Wharton doesn t just start at the beginning and tell you what happens. Rather, she uses a narrator who knows no more about Ethan Frome than you do. The narrator, who remains nameless, is a young engineer. He tells you how he uncovered Ethan s story bit by bit. He recounts what people said to him and what he observed during the months he spent in Ethan s hometown one wi...
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Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
723 wordsEthan Ethan Frome Ethan Frome Ethan Frome, a novel by Edith Wharton, tells the story of a man who no longer loves his wife, and falls in love with her cousin. Ethan Frome married a older woman named Zeena, with whom he has fallen out of love. Mattie Silver, Zeena s cousin, moves in to live with the Frome s and to help them out around the house. Ethan falls deeply in love with Mattie, and cannot wait to see her everyday. While he cannot wait to see Mattie, the sight of Zeena now sickens him, and ...
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