Ethen From
Ethan Frome
In author Edith Wharton's most acclaimed novel, Ethan Frome, Wharton paints a picture illustrating a despairing life that a man named Ethan Frome finds himself in. Edith Wharton masterfully uses setting to create an atmosphere of isolation and sorrow, drawing the audience into the tragedy which is Ethan Frome.
In this novel, Wharton uses the misfortune of poverty as a powerful tool that helps to convey the intense feelings of sorrow and entrapment that Ethan Frome experiences in his life to the reader. Near the end of the novel, Frome attempts to escape his life as a poor farmer and husband to the sick, cynical Zeena by buying passage to the West for himself and a young woman named Mattie Silver. But when Frome discovers that the price of that passage would be much too great a sum for him to manage, he collapses in despair, knowing that his imprisonment on the farm was inescapable. At another point, Frome approaches the man whom he delivers lumber, Andrew Hale,......
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