The Stalker: A Narrative Fiction

After the funeral, when he saw [Zeena] preparing to go away, [Ethan] was seized with an unreasoning dread of being left alone on the farm; and before he knew what he was doing he had asked her to stay there with him. He had often thought since that it would not have happened if his

    Though too intelligent for rural life, Ethan finds himself stuck in an average man's shoes. Leaving any opportunity he had to become someone in life, Ethan moves back to Starkfield to take care of his ailing mother and attend to their farm(Wharton 29).  Rather than living a lonesome

The novel opens, twenty years later, in Starkfield with The Narrator who develops the desire to know all about Ethan Frome’s past life. His curiosity gets him bits and pieces from the locals, but Ethan Frome remained mysterious. Due to a horrendous blizzard, The Narrator is given the opportunity to live in Ethan’s past and answer all of his questions. The reader starts off with the knowledge of Ethan Frome’s younger life. He desired to become an engineer ,but while pursuing his dreams, his father passes away and his mother becomes very ill. During that winter, Ethan hires Zeena, his cousin, to take care of his mother because he realized that it was too much for him to do on his own. When his mother passes away, he suffers from isolophobia, the fear of isolation, and decides to marry Zeena. The reader is made aware that the environment is cold representing a sense of isolation from the outside world. The Narrator finally learns about the “smash-up”(Wharton 1) according to the locals, that threw away all of Ethan Frome’s chances of escaping prison, also known as life.

Winter has gripped onto Ethan since the very beginning and doesn’t seem to let him have his way. People like Ethans become burdened beneath the winter. The relationship of Ethan and Zeena just doesn’t seem to melt in. They both have no feelings for each other, so past those circumstances they are living together. Ethan finds himself falling for Mattie, drawn to her beauty, as, "The pure air, and the long summer hours in the open, [gives] life and elasticity to Mattie"(Wharton 52). The characters seem to “feel” just like it being a hindrance for them; they’re being stopped from being together. Ethan seems to go through this situation with much difficulty, but he cannot go away during the winter because of many reasons and because he has to care about the farm. The huge amount

The moment he turned a corner, and was absolutely sure that Sheila could no longer see him, Eric broke into a sprint. He didn’t exactly know where Sarah was, but there was this… feeling, this weird pressure behind his nose that told him he couldn’t waste any more time. It made his legs move of their own accord, tearing through the cobbled streets going this way and that.

Tension still wracked the murderer's body, and his nerves remained on edge, however, both had started to dissipate some on his entry to the mall. Headed directly to Hannah, his senses were tuned for danger, but he apart from a couple of curious gazes, no-one paid Todd undue attention, and everything had become louder, clearer, every word and snippet of conversation, every flash of movement was notied and stored away, the exits scanned and the most direct route out of Tatiana's found. It was almost like he was on a hunt, hypersenstivie to even the smallest movement or sound, and rather than his pulse quicken when he tossed the newspaper down on the table in front of her, it slowed down. Time slowed down, and the words that slipped from his

Lauren obeyed, and dug her gloved fingers into his coat, curling her knuckles tight. His arm tightened around her. Uncontrollable shivers raced through her body. Nothing made sense. She wanted her toasty warm apartment. She wanted to forget about

On page 60-61, the author had listed 3 signs that Shelby had written of how she knows she is being stalked. Number 3 was “Followed me home from the theatre. The person wore jeans and dark blue sweatshirt with his hood pulled up. Average build. Probably between 5’9 and 6’ tall. Ran off when spotted.”

Our world is becoming like 1984 through the lens of technology, where the novel's fictional stalkers and today's real stalkers have the same behavior toward eliminating essential freedoms.

When they woke the next morning, they wasted no time getting ready. They needed to stop by Kate’s apartment before they went to the precinct since she refused to show up to work in jeans and a ratty t shirt, even if she would change into her spare clothes immediately. She still took the time to take a shower at the loft, and Rick suspected it was only because she liked his shower more than her own, even though she insisted that it was only to save time.

Dean see Adriana music hit she walks out in tight leather bottoms similar to Nikki. He notices she is wearing a black Seth Rollins shirt. Roman notice he is staring to long. Dean mind was going to early the day.

The knowledge was debilitating, and there was nothing she could do about it; nothing at all. Just as she feared her mind would snap from the constant spiral of it all, the alarm on her phone woke her.

The dark air began to weep as he sat there and faced the ordinary gravestone. Mother nature seemed to feel the pain that rocked deep in his bones every minute of everyday. The whistling and russling of the air as the leaves jumped through the cemetery rang in his ears. “Huh.” he snickered. Ash of the thick cigar fell fiercely towards the stone.

I am sorry, I know that by now you probably see an email from me and think, ‘oh my gosh, is she ever going to stop?’ I will, but I need ALL the gory details before I can. It may seem insensitive of me to need this information, but I’m his wife and I wasn’t there, and while I realize that you were not there either, I’m sure that you have a much better understanding of exactly how it happened and to be quite frank, I’d like to be enlightened.

“So what’s the diagnosis?” I smile when I say this, showing all of my teeth. This is a sign of aggression in most animals, but it seems to put him at ease.