The Effects of Ethan Frome's Dishonor to Responsibilities Ethan Frome by, Edith Wharton is a story of an ill-fated love, set during the winter of a rural New England town called Starkfield. ... Ethan has been caring for his hypochondriac wife for six years now. ... Ethan and Mattie in turn, fall in love. ... Zeena's dominating personality makes Ethan shudder, while Mattie's feminine youth makes Ethan feel like a "real man." ... The home that Ethan and Zeena lived in along with the land and farm could never have compensated for Ethan's leaving. ...

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The novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton can be considered a tragedy because the main character, Ethan, has one tragic flaw. ... Ethan Frome's antisocial behavior makes it impossible to express his feelings. ... Ethan Frome became lonely because he was not an affable person. ... Loneliness overtakes Ethan's emotions and leads him to unhappiness. ... Considering Ethan's lack of communicational skills is the only real flaw that leads him to unhappiness, Ethan Frome can be heeded as a tragedy....

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The novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton can be considered a tragedy because the main character, Ethan, has one tragic flaw. ... Ethan Frome's antisocial behavior makes it impossible to express his feelings. ... Ethan Frome became lonely because he was not an affable person. ... Loneliness overtakes Ethan's emotions and leads him to unhappiness. ... Considering Ethan's lack of communicational skills is the only real flaw that leads him to unhappiness, Ethan Frome can be heeded as a tragedy. ...

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Ethan Frome It is a cold winter night. Ethan From lies on his sofa bundled in an old coonskin coat. ... It's so chilly that when Ethan breathes he sees his own breath. ... Ethan Frome is a young man destined to spend his entire life in Starkfield, Massachusetts. ... Ethan: (Crumples up another letter) Ahh! ...

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"Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton is about a man named Ethan and his struggle to find happiness. ... With Ethan's mother very sick, his cousin Zeena came to relieve Ethan and become her aunts nurse. Ethan's mother died and after the funeral after moving out Ethan asked Zeena to marry her out of his fear of being alone in the farm house. ... Ethan confessed his love to Mattie who felt the same way. ... Ethan and Mattie planed on crashing their sled into a tree suspecting it would kill them, but it only left Mattie Crippled from the neck down and Ethan with a horrible limp. ...

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Ethan Frome, perhaps Wharton's most well known work, was published in 1911. Unlike most of Wharton's other writings, Ethan Frome's setting was not in an upper class suburban atmosphere, but a desolate wintry village in Massachusetts. ... The characters in Ethan Frome mirrored Wharton herself, particularly Zenobia Frome, the unloved wife of a burly farmer. Even the title character, Ethan, also mirrored Wharton's personality, in that both secretly loved another. ...

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