Edith Cummings

Chaos In the story Ethan Frome, it was a love triangle. Ethan was married to a sickly women named Zeena. When Mattie Silver was the maid of the Frome home, Ethan almost instantly fell for her. Ethan got married too quickly because he had a fear of being lonely. Zeena seemed to be the only option for Ethan, and so he married her. Zeena was not a nice women and controlled his own home and said that she was sick and needed a maid. This is the reasoning for Matties arrival.Ethan fell for her and

their lifespan on earth. However, not all of the dreams can be fulfilled. The dreams and desires of a person can be hindered by interfering forces which might be external, social and environmental factors, or internal like lack of will. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton demonstrates how social factors, including rules and expectations, and environmental factors such as weather and landscape, hindered the protagonist from accomplishing his dreams. These factors together with his lack of will, played a major

The Effects of an Unbalanced Subconscious Humans by nature are constantly thinking and acting based on different parts of their subconcious. This is true for people in real life, as well as characters in books. In the book Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, the three main characters have particularly specific parts of their subconscious controlling them, and a psychoanalytic breakdown of each character will determine what section of the brain is influencing each character. Ethan Frome, Mattie Silver,

Fate is an all powerful and unavoidable development of events that leads you to what you deserve based on how you life your life. In the novel “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton the three main characters; Ethan, Mattie, and Zeena, all suffered a torturous fate due to many wrong doings, primarily, all the secrets they kept for their own individual benefit. Ethan’s lie was being in love with Mattie, Mattie’s lie was being in love with Ethan, and Zeena’s lie was being deathly ill, however, these lies resulted

Do we make our own fate, or is it predetermined? Do our actions matter, or are we simply following a track? In the book, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, the main character's life is a continuous series of tragic events. Is this his own fault, or has his fate always been set towards pain? In this essay I will be explaining why Ethan's troubles are his own, why his actions caused his fate. Ethan, the main character, continuously fails to express himself, no matter how strongly he desires to. “He took

Both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome provide an insight into the moral ideas that have shaped New England. One major theme of The Scarlet Letter that helps to portray this is the theme of Puritanism. The religious nature of the morality shaped the society’s reaction to Hester’s affair. A major theme of Ethan Frome that helps to portray this is the theme of duty and morality vs. desire. Ethan feels he has a moral duty to remain with his wife, Zeena, even though

Edith Wharton has many different literary elements in her novels but the one that sticks out to me the most and I’m sure most of her other readers to is irony. There are three different types of irony and they are verbal, situational, and dramatic. Wharton does a good job a showing all three in her books and she makes people think when she uses situational and it is used in both books. She also uses verbal very well when she is trying to describe people and things that are the opposite of what she

In Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Mattie Silver portrays a warm, youthful character - the opposite personality of all other characters. Her quirky personality does not rub off on Ethan; however, Ethan's deathly personality does rub off on Mattie. Mattie Silver's presence brings forth warmth into the frozen Starkfield and delight into Ethan Frome's life. Mattie Silver is frequently associated with the color red - the color of love, leadership, and passion. She bears a “cherry scarf” (19) wrapped around

Often times, when people are hurt and taken advantage of themselves, they in turn take advantage of others. This is true of the character Ethan Frome in the novel of the same name by Edith Wharton. Zeena takes advantage of Ethan, so Ethan takes advantage of Mattie. Mattie is the true victim in the novel because she is young and impressionable, which Ethan uses to manipulate her. She has pure intentions, but ultimately ends up living a miserable life mainly to the fault of Ethan. To begin with, Ethan

order to be a better person, but “dealing with obstacles is a crucial part of being successful in life” (“The Psychological Response to Obstacles.”). Although not only are there obstacles in school but also in love stories. This is the kind of love Edith Wharton chose to write about in her book "Ethan Frome." Where the characters, Ethan Frome and Mattie Silver, experienced love but were forbidden to have due the fact that they were each other’s in-law. The love between Ethan and Mattie creates the