Ethan Hawke

Ariana was a curious girl, and everything she loved to do revolved around exploring. Ariana was 15 and had hair as red as blood, and eyes as green as the watered leaves of a new plant. She would often explore by herself or with her friends Troye, and Dinah. Troye had eyes as blue as the waters of Bora Bora, and hair as brown as the trunk of a newly grown oak tree, and at only the age of 16 Troye looked older, and hotter than boys his age. Troye was most often the safer person of the group while Dinah

Analysis of Ethan Frome The strife between monogamy and the lust for another is often the cause of a marriage ending before "death do us part." The challenges of infidelity in these situations often shape the individual enduring them in mostly negative ways. The novel Ethan Frome presents a main character facing an internal battle about responsibility versus his innate immoral nature, and the author exposes this extended metaphor as a struggle to warn that the conflict between moral standards and

setting in Ethan Frome to help bring out characterization and theme by the isolated life of Ethan Frome and the village in New England as well as the winter landscape surrounded by trees. Ethan Frome is located in Starkfield, Massachusetts, a place where not too many people live. In the beginning of the novel, the narrator walks into Starkfield’s post office. The narrator said that if you knew Starkfield than you knew the post office. Ironically, the first time the narrator saw Ethan Frome, was

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton follows the footsteps of stories such as Romeo and Juliet and tells the story of our protagonist, Ethan Frome, and his forbidden love with a star crossed lover. Throughout the story, Ethan's opinions and decisions regarding his wife Zenna and the woman he loves Mattie lead to his downfall. Three opinions that cause Ethan to his downfall are that he should lie to Zenna and not drive her into town, that he should try to pursue Mattie, and to get on the sled with Mattie

In Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, there are parts in the story that express lightness and darkness. These ideas of lightness and darkness can be seen as symbols and they go hand in hand with the symbols because it brings out the themes that are seen in this book. These two important elements of the book give us the tone, mood, and other factors of the story that make it interesting. In the book, Wharton does put in the ideas of light and dark, but it seems to be hidden or implied or no mention for

In the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, symbols are very apparent and play a large role. There are symbols found in the setting and the characters. Mattie Silver, Ethan Frome, and Zeena Frome live in an isolated home full of tension and a loveless marriage. As shown by Barbara White, the setting is one of the most important pieces of the story. Edith Wharton “... uses snow and cold to brilliant effect in creating a frightening, void-like atmosphere…”(White). This means that the setting isolates

Wharton uses the family graveyard to convey the theme of death in the Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome. Zeena, a ghostly character, causes Ethan to be metaphorically dead in life by restraining him from happiness in life. Although she is physically a weak and sickly character, Zeena has an extreme amount of power over Ethan that makes it possible for her to take his joy. She is always cranky, and she displays her anger in an unsettling passive aggressive manner. The fact that Zeena never changes throughout

barren one of Zeena. While his wife speaks in a “monotonous” (129) “flat whine” (32) her cousin’s “suffuse[s] him with joy” (44). Despite the fact that both women are frail and sickly, Zeena’s “puckered throat” and “protruding wrists” (47) disgusts Ethan, while Mattie is so “small and weak-looking that…it wr[i]ng[s] his heart” (106). Throughout the novel, Wharton’s choice of detail drastically contrasts the two women, one a vivacious, vigorous beauty, the other a walking, whining corpse. From their

The novel, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton tells of Ethan Frome and his struggles to be with the one he loves, Mattie Silver, and escaping the one he’s married to, Zeena. The tragedy that is Frome’s life is founded on the differences between Mattie and Zeena, such as their physical appearance and their communication and relationship with Ethan. Mattie and Zeena’s character foil is strongly emphasized by their contrasting physical appearances. At one point in the story, Ethan and Mattie had just arrived

Ethan Frome is a novel by Edith Wharton, telling a story of Ethan Frome and his marriage failing, as him and his wife dont love eachother, and Ethan falling in love with her cousin. Ethan married a woman named Zeena who he had fallen out of love with, and fell in love with Mattie Silver. Mattie moved in with the Fromes simply to help maintain the house, while Ethan can't wait to see her every day. He dislikes being around Zeena, while all he really wants is to be with Zeena's cousin. This internal