![]() Having proposed marriage to his mother’s nurse through utter dread at the thought of being alone in the world, Ethan is now left in a loveless void, as wife Zeena, disappointed with her lot, has taken to her bed with a suspiciously vague series of ailments. ![]() From a farming family, Ethan’s days have revolved around a homestead ‘ ‘bout as bare as a milk pan when the cat’s been round,’ his dreams of studying engineering thwarted by his father’s death and the torturously slow demise of his mother. An intense and compelling addition to our Classics archive, this certainly isn’t a tale for lightweights.įollowing our introduction to the sombre Ethan, a man of no more than fifty-two but looking ‘as if he was dead and in hell,’ the action rewinds twenty plus years to the heart of the tale, where we find him leading a threadbare life. In Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, we uncover the story of his joyless existence and his one shot at blazing, beautiful love. ![]() ![]() As mute and melancholy as the wintry New England landscape he inhabits, Ethan stoically shoulders the burden of a cruel past. ![]() Mr Ethan Frome still cuts an imposing figure in Starkfield, despite being left ‘but the ruin of a man,’ by a terrible accident some years previously. ![]()
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