Edith Grossman

Rationale As part of our English A Language and Literature syllabus, we studied Ethan Frome under Part 4 (Literature) of the syllabus. My primary source is a novella called Ethan Frome (1911) by Edith Wharton. I have chosen to re-write the prologue of Ethan Frome because it will be aimed at better understanding for students. My primary target audience will be the students of my age who study Ethan Frome. The features of the rationale that I have incorporated are providing information about the setting

The House of Mirth was written by Edith Wharton, a successful Pulitzer prize winning author. Wharton grew up enjoying the comforts of the privileged upper class during the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds. This unique background is what enables her to write the raw truth behind the social atmosphere among the upper class. This is evident through The House of Mirth because the novel illustrates the life of Lily Bart as she navigates through the elite social jungle. Wharton’s personal

Ethan Frome is a victim of his own personal choices and temperament. Ethan constantly ignored tension between Zeena and Mattie, and also never stood up for himself so that he could’ve left with Mattie to the west throughout Ethan Frome. He tries to, sometimes, but doesn’t completely make it all the way. He eventually does what he wants, but never succeeds, ends up where he started at, the Frome family farm in Starkfield. Ethan Frome runs into a girl wearing a red fascinator, and discovers the girl

I. Both Ethan Frome and “To Build a Fire” emphasize humankind’s lack of free will as individuals are affected both physically and mentally by the unyielding cold, unfortunate heredities, and the indifference of fate. A. Characters in both Ethan Frome and “To Build a Fire” lack free will as they are influenced by the cold. In Ethan Frome, Ethan is mentally affected by the cold, which affects his decision-making. Conversely, the protagonist in “To Build a Fire” is physically affected by the cold as

On the other hand, one of the differences between the book and the film happens to be how each portray some of the internal feelings of Ethan, which include his moral. In the novel as well as the movie his moral is the source of his constant indecisiveness. In the book there is a significant increase in the portrayal of Ethan’s internal struggles. For instance in the novel Ethan never is physically intimate with Mattie, while in the movie there are multiple scenes displaying their affection and passion

Assignment one – Discuss the significance of Lily Bart’s death at the end of The House of Mirth. You should consider the implications both for the protagonist’s social milieu and for women in general at this point in American history. The significance of Lily Bart’s death. As a writer looking towards the twentieth century Wharton faced the challenge of telling the history of women past the age of thirty. The age of thirty was established as the threshold by nineteenth-century

meaning to a variety of texts. From music to movies to novels, symbolism creates an even deeper meaning than found in a surface reading. The symbolism found within Ethan Frome adds to the inherent meaning of the text to give it an even deeper meaning. Edith Wharton uses the pickle dish, the Oak tree, and the cat as symbols to achieve deeper meaning. The pickle dish is of great significance in the novel. It is used to represent Zeena's virginity. Mattie seamed to know a great deal more about the pickle

Ethan Frome In the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Ethan’s wife Zeena plays an important role in the novel. Zeena changes Ethan through their marriage, and her illness. It is interesting when we find out that Zeena is actually Ethan’s cousin. It is questionable whether Zeena is sick or not. She often appears to be a hypochondriac. In the novel the narrator states that “Zeena, she’s always been the greatest hand at doctoring in the county” (5). If Zeena had the greatest hand at doctoring,

The setting of a novel is typically only the frame in which a novel takes place; it makes no grandiose overtures to become a larger part of the novel than it is. However, the setting of Starkfield in Ethan Frome is different in that the depiction of Starkfield is integral to one’s understanding of the underlying motives and feelings of the characters in the novel. The “accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters” (Wharton 5) tangibly affects the personalities and actions of Ethan, Zeena, and Mattie

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot has similar recurring imagery. Both literary works portray two women in a way and compare these two women characters. Wharton’s portrayal of gender in the society of Old New York illustrates the “perfect” woman through May Welland along with the “imperfect” woman through Ellen Olenska, whereas in the poem The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, the role and sexuality of women is shown through the juxtaposition of two women in the section