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Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome

By Wharton, Edith

Published by Lebooks Editora

English 2025 ISBN 9786558947639
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Ethan Frome (1911) is one of Edith Wharton's most powerful short novels, set in the bleak, wintry landscape of rural New England. The story is framed through the perspective of an unnamed narrator, who reconstructs the life of Ethan Frome, a man marked by hardship, duty, and unfulfilled desire. Ethan is a struggling farmer bound to his sickly and demanding wife, Zeena, whose hypochondria and coldness dominate their household. When Zeena's younger cousin, Mattie Silver, comes to live with them as a helper, Ethan finds in her warmth, vitality, and companionship the possibility of an emotional life he has long been denied. A quiet but intense bond grows between Ethan and Mattie, though it remains constrained by social and moral obligations. The tension culminates when Zeena decides to send Mattie away. Desperate, Ethan and Mattie attempt to escape their impossible situation through a dramatic sledding accident, intending a double suicide. Instead of freedom, they survive, but broken and permanently disabled, condemned to a life of even greater suffering and dependency. The novel's conclusion reveals them years later, trapped together in a household of bitterness and silence, a grim reflection of thwarted passion and resignation. Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Known for her sharp portrayals of social conventions, moral dilemmas, and the constraints imposed on individuals—especially women—by class and circumstance, Wharton used Ethan Frome to explore themes of desire, repression, and the crushing weight of environment and duty

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