Ethan eagerly awaits the nights when he is able to walk Mattie home from the town dances. However, they never follow their love due to Ethan’s morals and the respect he has for his marriage to Zeena. With Mattie’s youthful presence in the house, Ethan is awoken of the bitterness of his youth’s lost opportunities, and dissatisfaction with his life and empty marriage. Due to Zeena’s numerous complications they employ her cousin to help in the house, the animated Mattie Silver. Ethan has been caring for his wife for six years now. The two live in trapped, unspoken resentment on Ethan’s isolated and failing farm. Ethan is a farmer who is married to a sickly woman named Zeena. Ethan Frome is a story of ill-fated love, set during the winter in the rural New England town of Starkfield.
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