One of America's most important novelists, Edith Wharton was a refined, relentless chronicler of the Gilded Age and its social mores. Awards-Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence, 1921,.Education: Educated privately in New York and Europe.A powerful tale of passion and loss-and the wretched consequences thereof- Ethan Frome is one of American literatures great tragic love stories. Her sensitivity to natural beauty and human psychology, however, make this slim novel a convincing and compelling portrait of rural life. Unhappily married herself, Edith Wharton projected her dark views of love onto people far removed from her social class in Ethan Frome. As Mattie is forced to leave his household, Frome steals one last afternoon with her-one that culminates in a ruinous sled ride with unspeakably tragic results. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeena, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in love with her visiting cousin, the vivacious Mattie Silver. One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. Ethan remains torn between his sense of obligation and his urge to satisfy his heart's desire up to the suspenseful and unanticipated conclusion. ( Penguin Group edition.)
Tragically, their love is doomed by Zeena's ever-lurking presence and by the social conventions of the day. They fall desperately in love as he realizes how much is missing from his life and marriage. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately taken by Mattie's warm, vivacious personality. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold, conniving character.
Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena.
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