Elegant version: The overall story and the characters seemed to embody a cautionary tale, and I'm not even sure of the point of the whole thing. It seemed to merely exist without a clear direction, and wallowed in its own bleak misery. It is akin to listening to a broken man mumbling to himself whil...
A brutal little novella, mean, sad and despairing, evocatively told - but too short (i.e., character- and detail-scarce) to pack the kind of wallop that House of Mirth did. Wharton's capacity to create a downward arc for her characters leading them -- and the readers -- directly to seeing suicide a...
What I think at page 49:When I first picked up this book I thought it would be kind of like to kill a mockingbird where Jem and Scout were discovering about the mysterious Boo and he turned out to be a nice guy. Boy was I wrong. 10 pages in it switches from the new guys perspective to Young Ethan Fr...
How sad and tragic can one book be? So much so that you think about it for days and days.This is also a member of the “finish it and then pick it up again and start at the beginning” book group. It is like the pain that feels good.Tragic Ethan Frome; he marries his cousin Zeena just because she is t...
I'll admit that, if I'd had Mrs. Lake to give me assignments on Ethan Frome, I probably would have liked it more. My real rating is 1.5 stars.One thing I enjoyed every now and then was the description. Most of the imagery felt unique and gave me a clear idea of the characters' surroundings. However,...
Reading Wharton can be so painful. More so when you feel a tie w/ the story. I almost gave up in the middle. Better not re-reading it sometime soon. Not saying that her writing is not good, it is, it's just too tough for me.
First sentence: ""I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story."Last sentence: "Ethan might ha' lived; and the way they are now, I don't see's there's much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes dow...
Ethan Frome is more of a novella than a full length novel. However that is not to say that the story lacks any of the depth of longer novels. No indeed as the precise and yet beautiful language aids to promote a very deep and in many ways chilling tragedy of a tale. If I were to subtitle Ethan Frome...
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