― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countryside. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his /5(). The relative brevity of "Ethan Frome" is a major source of its power. The compression involved occasioning so many nuances and so much unstated meaning is at the very heart of this claustrophobic piece. In so many subtle ways Edith Wharton ratchets up the tension, without once stepping away from the restraint and delicacy of her characteristic /5(K). Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. Ethan Frome takes place against a backdrop of the cold, gray, bleakness of a New England winter. Ethan Frome is an isolated farmer trying to scrape out a meager living while also tending to his frigid, demanding and ungrateful wife, Zeena.
Ethan Frome drove in silence, the reins loosely held in his left hand, his brown seamed profile, under the helmet-like peak of the cap, relieved against the banks of snow like the bronze image of a hero. Ethan Frome Summary. The Narrator, an engineer assigned to a job at a power plant near the town of Starkfield, MA, is intrigued by a tall crippled man he sees at the local post office. He learns that the man, Ethan Frome, was injured in a sledding accident 24 years earlier, but can get little more from the secretive locals. In the novel Ethan Frome, author Edith Wharton conveyed the tale of her protagonist's tragic life in Starkfield, Massachusetts through a limited first-person narrator for the prologue and conclusion of the novel and a limited third-person narrator for the chapters detailing show more content. After all, the narrator "began to piece.
Wharton uses the framing device of an unnamed narrator, who, through flashback and hearsay tells the story of Ethan Frome in a manner that explicitly juxtaposes the past and present. The narrator of the novel hires a damaged husk of a man – Ethan Frome – as his driver during his stay in the town of the aptly named Starkfield. ― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countryside. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. Famously known as an acute observer of class and society in classics such as The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome strays far from her typical stomping grounds, leaving behind wealth and privilege to follow a struggling farmer who is exceedingly close to complete financial ruin.
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