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Today, in the United States, about half of marriages end in divorce, revealing an instability and lack of companionship present in most marriages. Men and women, in nature, starve for love and yearn for a true companion to spend their lives with. Love for a spouse can change like the wind, but in the novel Ethan Frome love changes for the worse over time. Ethan Frome, set in an isolated New England town, epitomizes the depressed and grotesque lives of three young people caught in a triangle of distorted love.
Ethan, the protagonist of the novel, loves his wife Zeena and wants to take care of her throughout her so-called illness. Lovers lost one might call the two of them; they share an internal hatred for one another that keeps their lives so tightly intertwined that no single person could separate them. Not a single person could come between them except the third variable of the love triangle, Zeena's cousin, Mattie Silver. A young vibrant 21-yearold is all it takes to......

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