SQA Higher English 24 / 10 / 01 Grade B A novel I know well, which I have selected an episode that is crucial to my exploration of the ideas within the novel is Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. ... Wharton uses this to reflect the warm and light feelings Ethan has for Mattie. ... Again and again, Wharton displays the hold of social convention over Ethan's desires. ... Wharton's husband is reflected though Zeena. Although, the tragic conclusion of the novel was never reflected from Wharton's reality as because she was upper class she could divorce unlike Ethan of working clas...

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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...

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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...

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