Edith Cummings

“Ethan Frome” is a fictitious romantic novel written by the late Edith Wharton. It opens with an engineer who becomes interested in the story of Frome’s life. Upon being unable to go to the nearby town he is working in; Frome, his temporary coachman, invites him to spend the night at his farm. That night he learns of his tragedy that came about due to him failing in communicating freely and honestly. Wharton explains to us through his novel to not allow societies standards and morals keep you too

In Edith Wharton’s novel, Ethan Frome, Wharton introduces Frome’s ironic views on sickness and accidents early in the novel to convey the idea that unhappiness brought upon by a person’s own choice of obligations and duties can eventually tire them and bring them to act on desires to escape these responsibilities when given the chance for freedom and happiness, no matter the consequences that may ensure. Ethan Frome spent years studying as an engineer, but eventually found himself abandoning his

On the Heroism of Ethan Frome Within Ethan Frome is a yearning for change, freedom, and life. Starkfield is the environmental embodiment of stagnancy and monotony. Why does Frome stay connected to an environment with such a bleak outlook in spite of his ambition? He stays because he is needed. His true hope is to leave the town in pursuit of an education and a city lifestyle but he is bound to his mother and father, his farm, and his marriage. Frome holds himself to a heroic standard in his duty

Ethan suffers from many things in his life, his marriage, his amount of money, and to be general, his way of life. The things that affect him the most are the decisions that he makes for himself, for he won't know the consequences. Now Ethan is a victim of his own personal choices and temperament. Whether they be the choices he makes, that go against Zeena. Another being that he’s happier with Maddie than with his current wife. And Lastly, if he chooses to run away with his true love or stay

As the man on a horse slowly approaches the cabin, Martha steps outside onto the sunlit porch. Martha places her hand above her forehead to block the sun to see who might that be. Her husband, Aaron, approaches behind her and questions, “Ethan?” (The Searchers) Ethan shows up all dusty from the ride wearing jean, cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. The family then lines up to welcome Ethan, who is the brother of Aaron, into their home. This was the opening scene of The Searchers by John Ford, which

Symbolic weather and characters of Ethan Frome The characters and weather, in the novel Ethan Frome, influence the action of the novel in many ways. Some of the characters that heavily influence the novel are the main characters, Ethan Frome, Mattie Silver, and Zeena Frome. The weather is used in the novel to set the tone, alter the mood and foreshadow events that may happen. Zeena is one of those characters. Whenever the name Zeena is mentioned it brings sour thoughts to the readers head. Throughout

poverty and struggles. Many people are siting on the sides of roads and under bridges because they are poor. Not all people that are poor lives under bridges and roads, but it makes their live more complicated than they wanted it to be. In Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton’s main Character Ethan Frome has been through poverty throughout his life time. Although he hasn’t been around his parents for a long time, he is stilling going through poverty. His lack of thinking ( including his lack of money) and his wife

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton is a fictional novel detailing the story of a young Ethan Frome. He is in a dilemma as he cannot choose who he wishes to spend the remains of his life with. In Starkfield, Massachusetts, Ethan lives with his sickly wife Zenobia and her cousin, Mattie Silver. Mattie was instructed to assist the Fromes at their house and over time, Ethan begins to develop affection towards Mattie. A conflict arises as Zeena wishes to replace Mattie with another girl who she thinks would

male’s physical strength with authority. At the same time, women have been conditioned to yield to a man’s power, and have been taught that men are meant to hold economic, societal, and domestic control, as displayed by New York’s high-society in Edith Wharton’s timeless novel The Age of Innocence. Yet, power is an unquantifiable, metaphysical idea completely unrelated to one’s gender. Power is held in the eye of the beholder, and over time, women have used this idea to manipulate and control men

can stand the test of time. That is what is thought, but that ideal is not always the case. Some marriages end in divorce or a tragedy or something unique to a certain situation. In Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, the marriage of Ethan and Zeena draws uncanny parallels to the authors own life and marriage; in that Edith Wharton had an affair, her marriage declined, and her husband had a mental illness. In Ethan Frome, Ethan and Mattie’s affair was short lived, yet it lacked the physical aspect of the