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Introduction

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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

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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. […]

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Plot Summary

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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 […]

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Characters

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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 […]

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Themes

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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 […]

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Construction

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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 […]

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Historical Perspective

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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 […]

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Questions

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Explore the various options young people have today for getting an education and making their own way in the world, and explain how the lives […]