Introduction
Critics have called Ethan Frome the most carefully constructed of Edith Wharton’s novels, and have praised the economy of its language and its intensity. The […]
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was born January 24, 1862, to a wealthy New York family. She showed an interest in writing and literature from an early age. […]
Plot Summary
Ethan Frome is the story of a man who, following the death of his father, gives up his education and other opportunities to return to […]
Characters
A Dennis Eady The son of Michael Eady, an ambitious Irish grocer. Dennis has a reputation for applying to the young woman of Starkfield the […]
Themes
A Frustration The theme of frustration is central to Ethan Frome. Sometimes the frustration is a product of the oppressive environment, and sometimes it stems […]
Construction
A Point of View Critics hail Ethan Frome as the most carefully constructed of Wharton’s novels. The story relates events that occurred twenty-four years previously […]
Historical Perspective
A Expansion and Reform in the 1910s The decade of the 1910s in which Edith Wharton wrote Ethan Frome was characterized by economic prosperity in […]
Compare and Contrast
1880s: People in New England farming communities led a difficult, culturally void existence. 1911: Innovations in transportation made communication easier between the villages and gave […]
About the Author
Frank Herbert was born on October 8, 1920, in Tacoma, Washington. He began his career as a journalist when he was seventeen. From 1946 to […]