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Edith Wharton's novel "Ethan Frome" depicts a love triangle that results in tragedy during the late 1890s or early 1900s. When Ethan Frome's mother was sick, his older cousin, Zenobia or Zeena, came to help, and he ended up marrying her after his mother's death. She had a cousin named Mattie Silver who comes to live with them, and Ethan soon becomes attracted to the young ebullient Mattie and her carefree spirit. Suffering is a common theme throughout the novel, as all three of the main characters

Cynthia Griffin Wolff writes about how author Edith Wharton based Ethan Frome off her own life. Edith felt that she was living in a time where divorce had became a part of “commercial exchange” (Wolff). Ethan Frome directly relates to Edith’s own life, more specifically to her marriage to Teddy Wharton, and the divorce that she was going through while writing Ethan Frome. A marriage should only occur when you truly love someone with all of your heart and it is not meant fill a void or be forced.

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

In Edith Wharton’s novel Ethan Frome, the setting is in Starkfield, Massachusetts, a small, stale, freezing town with people tending to gossip about everyone. Ethan has been faced with many difficulties; the death of his parents, his “sickly” wife Zenobia, and the arrival of Mattie Silver. The author uses Ethan’s personal and societal past events to show how one’s feeling of isolation can cause one to seek comfort in another being. Imagine a man held against his will. Ethan Frome thinks of himself

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

understand technology. Just like in the book Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Ethan From is one character that is isolated. For Ethan he’s very distant and no-one really tries to get close to him because of what he’s been through, which isolate’s his life to just himself. Even after he get’s a wife named Zenobia, his house was silent after she grew ill. He’s in loop of confusion and filled with heartache. First, In the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, there are many examples of isolation, Ethan the

Felipe Armesto once said, “Every hero is somebody else’s villain”. Every individual who considers someone to be a hero can also be portrayed as a villain. In the novel, Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton she portrays her male protagonist as both a hero and a villain. As a result, the reader can view the plot as any other human who can make mistakes. Ethan Frome a tragic hero whose greatest challenge is finding true happiness in his life. This observation presents the question: how can an individual play

Ethan Frome was written by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton the author of Ethan Frome wrote the book to show how life was in the New England countryside. Throughout the story she discusses symbolism and how they add effectiveness of the story. Each symbol that was discussed in the story has a meaning behind it. So therefore, two symbols that was found were Ethan visits to the cemetery, and Zeena’s pickle dish. To begin with, the first symbolism found in the story was Ethan visits the cemetery. Ethan

The author, Edith Wharton uses the theme morality, to describe the feelings of the characters. Wharton displays the theme throughout the story with symbols, motifs, and irony; he wants to be able to connect to the readers. The novel uses morality as a sense of principles between right and wrong. Morality seems to have its up and downs in the story, as it does in real life. The author uses this particular type of theme with characters to have a more realistic plot and to help the reader understand

Edith Wharton uses setting to compliment the loneliness Ethan feels while living at his farm. The village Frome lives in is, at the start of chapter 1, described as being under “two feet of snow” (Edith Wharton, 11). Snow can oftentimes be interpreted negatively because of the bitter cold it brings, symbolizing hardships and, often, death. Death of loved ones is never easy on an individual, and people are known to draw into themselves when someone close to them has passed, resulting in their own