Critics have claimed that Starkfield is an important character in the novel, while it is not a person character. Starkfield is another side of Ethan. This book does a good job of comparing and contrasting Ethan to Starkfield. Ethan and Starkfield share many similarities. At the same time, Ethan and ...
Nature's Puppet- "Ethan Frome" Its arguable, Edith Wharton, in Ethan Frome, uses the environment of Starkfield to act as a reflection of the characters souls, most notably Ethan's, but even more so, she uses it to reflect the perpetual failure that comes to be Ethan's life. ... But to take this initial reflection a bit farther I postulate that it is this reflection of the characters and the consistency used by Wharton throughout the novel that makes it apparent that it is in fact the environment which shapes a persons destiny and thus the failure's of Ethan are due to his...
The perception of symbolism can affect the outcome of the entire novel whether you interpret a particular subject one way or the other. Symbols often times can be interpreted into many different thoughts, whereas themes affect the entire novel as a whole, which causes the theme to be stagnant. In th...
