#44: Edith Wharton,Ethan Frome
Ethan Fromeis not what Edith Wharton is famous for. There are other works for that. However,Ethan Fromeis a perfect example of Wharton’s skillful examination of human emotions and feelings. The characters in this novel do not merely experience emotions; they become obsessed with these emotions, their lives reduced to being shrouded by feelings and their lives rendered inescapable from them.
Ethan Frome, the protagonist of this novella, has married a woman, Zenobia, out of obligation and convenience. When Zeena’s cousin Mattie comes to visit the couple and care for Zeena, Ethan gets a glance of what his life could be like if he had married for love. Eventually, circumstances put the three into a stifling threesome, not giving any one of them a way to escape no matter how hard they try.

#44: Edith Wharton,Ethan Frome

Ethan Fromeis not what Edith Wharton is famous for. There are other works for that. However,Ethan Fromeis a perfect example of Wharton’s skillful examination of human emotions and feelings. The characters in this novel do not merely experience emotions; they become obsessed with these emotions, their lives reduced to being shrouded by feelings and their lives rendered inescapable from them.

Ethan Frome, the protagonist of this novella, has married a woman, Zenobia, out of obligation and convenience. When Zeena’s cousin Mattie comes to visit the couple and care for Zeena, Ethan gets a glance of what his life could be like if he had married for love. Eventually, circumstances put the three into a stifling threesome, not giving any one of them a way to escape no matter how hard they try.