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	Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
		Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver.
		Ethan was a bad character to begin with, but in my opinion, he would never had tried to kill himself.
		Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton was not a good book to me. I was able to put it down, and I was able to fall asleep mid-sentence.
	www.online-literature.com /wharton/ethan_frome (1070 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Ethan Frome Study Guide - Full Summary and Analysis
		In Ethan Frome, the influence of this Darwin-inspired outlook is undeniable.
		Ethan was forced to return to the farm because of poverty: after his father, someone had to take care of his mother, and they lacked the funds to hire help or support Ethan's studies.
		Ethan Frome is partially a reaction against portraits of rural living that romanticized poverty and farming.
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	Amazon.de: Spark Notes Ethan Frome: English Books: Edith Wharton (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ethan Frome is a farmer in Starkfield, Massachusetts, at the beginning of the 20th century.
		Ethan's fate is tragic: He must live with the woman he hates, and the woman with whom he had a chance to live a happy life.
		Ethan had a hard life as a farmer and where they lived farming was not a big part of life, so why he was a farmer wa unclear to me. I did not enjoy te book as much as i had inticipated.
	www.amazon.de /Spark-Notes-Ethan-Frome-Wharton/dp/1586634224 (2749 words)

	NovelGuide: Ethan Frome: Metaphor Analysis
		Ethan feels that the shattered dish reflects Mattie’s and his shattered evening together, though it can also be seen as symbolic of the marriage, which has finally broken under the stress of the relationship between Ethan and Mattie.
		It is typical of Ethan that after the dish is broken, he lays together the pieces, unable to consign it to the dustbin or to confront Zeena with the truth.
		Ethan draws a parallel between his mother’s decline and the decline of the locality: “after the trains begun running nobody ever come by here to speak of, and mother never could get it through her head what had happened, and it preyed on her right along till she died” (Author’s Introductory Note).
	www.novelguide.com /EthanFrome/metaphoranalysis.html (1902 words)

	SparkNotes: Ethan Frome: Themes, Motifs & Symbols
		Ethan Frome, the novel’s protagonist, is described by an old man as having “been in Starkfield too many winters.” As the story progresses, the reader, and the narrator, begin to understand more deeply the meaning of this statement.
		Ethan yearns to escape Starkfield; when he was younger, we learn, he hoped to leave his family farm and work as an engineer in a larger town.
		The decision parallels Ethan’s agreement to Mattie’s death wish, his conduct in his marriage, and his attitude toward life in general: unable to face the consequences of any decision, he lets external circumstances—other individuals, society, convention, financial constraints—make his decisions for him.
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	Ethan Frome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ethan Frome is a 1911 novel by Edith Wharton.
		Ethan's tedious way of life continues on for several years, until a young woman named Mattie Silver is sent by relatives of Zeena to their home for free housekeeping duty.
		Ethan Frome was also the name of a computer virus, circa 1996, that altered MS Word Documents at random, changing certain meta-data attributes, including the document author and document creation date.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethan_Frome (995 words)

	Ethan Frome Study Guide
		Ethan was a young man taking care of his mother until she died.
		Ethan was afraid of being alone during that winter so he married his mother's nurse Zeena, who was an older woman.
		Ethan does Mattie's chores around the house for her and sneaks extra time with her.
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	Amazon.com: Ethan Frome (Signet Classics (Paperback)): Books: Edith Wharton,Anita Shreve (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ethan Frome is the story of a man living in a loveless marriage.
		Ethan Frome was one of her most famous novels, and it is actually a departure for her, since it occurs in a rural Massachussetts town rather than turn of the century New York, but the stifling society presence is still here, and the story is very much a tragedy, just like her other works.
		Ethan is in agony, not just because of the internal struggle of decision, but also because of the sheer joy that he experiences from the slightest interaction with Mattie.
	www.amazon.com /Ethan-Frome-Signet-Classics-Paperback/dp/0451527666 (1979 words)

	Book Notes- Ethan Frome - AOL Homework Help (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As a young man, Ethan Frome had hoped to free himself from the burdens of a family property that could barely support him and his wife, but by the age of twenty-eight he finds himself saddled with a hypochondriacal wife, a mortgage, and an unprofitable business.
		The story of Ethan Frome is not presented as the vision of an outsider who has pieced the story together from what he could find out from various sources but as a kind of confession made by Ruth Hale to the minister.
		Ethan Frome has been described as presenting a view of a nightmarish situation that is lived on a daily basis over a long period.
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	Ethan Frome
		A surprisingly modern novel published in 1911, Ethan Frome uses the contemporary devices of irony and flashback to recount a life that couldn't explore that road not taken.
		Ethan Frome marries the woman who nurses his mother before her death, but she keeps him from realizing his potential - another "modern" dilemma.
		Copyright law at the time Ethan Frome was written provided for a maximum of 56 years protection from the date of publication.
	isbn.nu /ethan.frome.html (311 words)

	Ethan Frome
		Ethan has lied to Zeena about collecting some money and that was why Ethan did not take her to the station to go and see a doctor.
		Ethan and Mattie postpone their sledding trip until tomorrow, as it is too dark outside.
		Ethan kissed the piece of material that Mattie was working on and Mattie immediately packed up her work.
	www.projectgcse.co.uk /english/frome.htm (1688 words)

	Ethan Frome: Failure
		Ethan Frome: Failure Ethan Frome, the main character in the book entitled Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, has many complex problems going on at the same time.
		Ethan's last failure was the way he modified his and Mattie's lives regarding the "smash up." He so desperately wanted to run away with Mattie, but he could not because his practical sense told him it was not feasible to do so.
		In this way Ethan had his last failure in not exceeding to die with his love, instead he had to live with the guilt from his wife, the injured Mattie, and broken dreams.
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	Ethan Frome - TeacherVision.com
		Gow has volunteered the bare facts of Frome’s background, and, from these bits, the Narrator infers that the real Ethan Frome, whoever he may be, has been frozen by his "tragic" past as well as the "accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters" into the mute lonely cripple who has become a fixture in the town.
		Ethan, through the Narrator’s vision, is introduced as a young man. We learn that he had taken a year’s course at a technical college, dabbling in physics, but had to stop when his father’s death and subsequent financial losses called him home.
		Ethan and Mattie are left alone, and Ethan feels excitement at the prospect of enjoying his house without Zeena.
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	ClassZone.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ethan Frome struggles to make a living as a farmer near the bleak Massachusetts town of Starkfield, while his dour wife Zeena whines and complains about her imaginary ailments.
		Ethan is deformed, hopeless, and poorer than ever, and Mattie is now the helpless invalid.
		The characters in Ethan Frome are affected by the isolation of life in a rural area during the winter.
	www.classzone.com /novelguides/litcons/ethanf/guide.cfm (635 words)

	World's Greatest Classic Books - Ethan Frome
		A marked departure from Edith Wharton's usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she herself belonged, Ethan Frome is a sharply etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village.
		The protagonist, Ethan Frome, is a man tormented by a passionate love for his ailing wife's young cousin.
		Soon after Ethan Frome was published, a friend of Wharton’s reported that she and the author had once driven around the Berkshire hills.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Ethan Frome at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I have seem Ethan Frome several times now and I continue to be entranced with the story, the acting, the directing and the beautiful cinematography.
		Ethan Frome is not a pretty girl love story, nor is it an action thriller.
		The responsive behavior of Ethan is reflective on the person he is with at the time.
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	Ethan Frome Notes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The morality of inertia, of the dull, unthinking round of duties, may, and often does, yield the immorality of inertia.
		Inverted Snow White—Zeena is the stereotypical witch in Ethan’s eyes, and she dramatizes the deeply rooted male fear of woman.
		Ethan – has heroic possibilities – longed to become an engineer; had acquired some technical training; reads desultorily in the field; more sensitive to the appeal of natural beauty; has a sense of responsibility that blocks the last avenue of escape and condemns him to a life of sterile expiation
	www.viterbo.edu /personalpages/faculty/GSmith/EthanFromeNotes.htm (953 words)

	Ethan Frome Study Guide by Edith Wharton Study Guide
		Ethan finds a job with opportunities for travel, but the illness of his parents draws him back to his home.
		Ethan Frome is a man torn between what he wants to do, and what he should do.
		Ethan Frome from BookRags and Gale's For Students Series.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-ethanfrome (182 words)

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