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“Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton

Jamari Alexander

James Madison High School

English II

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Mrs. Michels

January 31, 2018

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Ethan Frome

The Novel “Ethan Frome” written by Edith Wharton was a heartbreaking novel that has

an interesting twist about star-crossed lovers. The main character are Ethan Frome, Mattie Silver

and Zenobia know as (Zeena).

I think about the moral to the novel “Ethan Frome” is that “it's more important not to

hurt people that it is to find personal happiness.” Ethan Frome also have a major theme which is:

“Passion and Repression, Escape and Freedom, and Isolation and Loneliness” in Wharton's

novella, all of which are consequential to the choices that Ethan makes. In the Introduction, the

narrator notes,

“He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe,

with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing

unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for

casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal

plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound

accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters. (Introduction, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton)

Conclusion,

In Closing, The Ethan Frome Novel by Edith Wharton was a distressing read about the

main character Ethan Frome feeling about his wife, but he never says it he’s always be silenced

and suffered in the inside than just says what he means about her. According to the site

(http://www.gutenberg.org) it stats “Ethan Frome’s had been beyond the common measure, no

one gave me an explanation of the look in his face which, as I persisted in thinking, neither
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poverty nor physical suffering could have put there. Nevertheless, I might have contented myself

with the story pieced together from these hints had it not been for the provocation of Mrs. Hale’s

silence, and—a little later—for the accident of personal contact with the man.”

(http://www.gutenberg.org)
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Refence

Ethan Frome (2/4/10)

Retrieved (2/1/18):
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4517/4517-h/4517-h.htm#link2H_4_0002

Ethan Frome (1911)

Retrieved (2/1/18)
https://americanliterature.com/author/edith-wharton/book/ethan-frome/summary