Ethan Frome Ethan Frome, by Edith Warton, reveals a life filled with irony, heartbreak, love, and challenging trials. ... While the narrator is unveiling the secrets of Ethan Frome, he is also unveiling himself. ... Throughout the book, the narrator inserts comments or questions. ... The point of view used in Ethan Frome is not only a rhetorical device, but also gives the meaning behind the structure. ... It is as if he is observing and occasionally adding comments or questions into the story. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the case of Ethan Frome, Zeena, and Mattie, happiness seems elusive to the point of nonexistence. ... The main themes of imprisonment in Ethan Frome are lack of money, Starkfield's location and surroundings, Ethan's inability to communicate, Ethan's love for Mattie, Ethan's marriage with Zeena, and Zeena's sickness and how it pressures Ethan. ... If the Frome's had more money, Zeena's health could improve and therefore Ethan would not be so pressured by his wife. ... It is always that question that is a hindrance on everyone's lives. ... Ethan...

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• Grade Level: High School

Ethan Frome, the main character in the Edith Wharton novel Ethan Frome, is a man who lives in a world of silence. ... The setting for Ethan Frome is winter. ... One can compare the destruction of the "L" on his home to his actual life, as the narrator states " this connection of ideas, caused me to hear a wistful note in Frome's words, and to see the diminished dwelling the image of his own shrunken body" (11). ... The three main characters in the novel Ethan Frome, Zeena Frome, and Mattie Silver all seem at one point in time to take on the properties of the season most prominent within t...

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• Grade Level: High School

With special reference to Edith Wharton's use of language, show how the New England Setting and its associated imagery contributes to the power of "Ethan Frome". ... Wharton uses and then repeats this phrase to pose questions about Starkfield, Ethan Frome, and the significance of winter. ... By acquiring knowledge about the inhabitants, for example Ethan Frome who "lived in a depth of moral isolation, this negative influence proves to be correct. This profound imagery is stressed throughout to emphasise winter's suffocating effect on Starkfield and therefore its inhabitants, whi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Most all human beings make some sort of misconception in life, in fact we all make them to a degree therefor it is not shameful; the question is whether or not we learn from them and correct the mistakes we have made. ... There is one novel and one play in which I have read where this quote relates strongly to their morals and deeper meanings, them being the play Othello and the novel Ethan Frome. ... The novel written by Edith Wharton titled Ethan Frome is a sad story of a man, Ethan, who marries a woman just so he wouldn't be lonely, Zeena, and then in the middle of their m...

• Word Count: 701
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School