Despite the author’s literary skill, I didn't think much of this novella. In its brief page count, it chronicles the tragedy of Ethan Frome, a struggling young farmer hastily married to a cousin who constantly insists upon her unspecified ailments; while yearning for a better life, Ethan falls hard ...
Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome, his ailing wife Zeena and her companion Mattie Silver, superbly delineating the characters of each as they are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic struggle.Burdened by poverty and spiritually dulled by a loveless marria...
I thought I knew how this book was going to end — tragically, of course, but I didn't know that Wharton would add an extra punch that hit me sideways and prevented the novel from being a typical tragic love story. At first I was only mildly impressed by the story and the characters, but that unexpec...
In exquisitely beautiful language, Wharton constructs an austere, desperately sad rural love story. Ethan's aesthetic and ethical sensibilities let in a little light in this dark work.
The introduction was totally worth it. The rest of the novel was a super-depressing male & socioeconomic version of Kate Chopin's The Awakening, complete with the obligatory suicide-attempt ending.I get why it's good. Starkfield is portrayed as true to its name as it gets. I'm supposed to pity sympa...
10/8 - Enjoying this short book so far. The story is engaging, the writing easy to understand, Wharton even has a page of notes at the back of the book explaining some of the more difficult words or phrases in the story. Wharton jumps back and forth between 'current time' and about 20 years earlie...
Oh Ethan Frome. When you read this you cannot help but shout at Ethan to get the hell out of dodge but it doesn't happen and unfortunately we know that from the beginning. The story is sad, depressing and so is the setting largely. Bleak, that is what the entire story comes down to. Ethan's wife, Ze...
My introduction calls Edith Wharton professional and that she certainly is. This is the second book I have read by her, the first being The Age of Innocence. It is really a novella and not a novel, although it may technically exceed a novella's length.While Wharton is motivated recurrently with a ...
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