Ethan Frome (adapted ∙ The Oxford Bookworms Stage 3)
by Edith Wharton
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Ethan Frome is a farmer who has little money to live. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife Zeena and Zeena's cousin Mattie. Mattie is younger than Zeena, so Ethan is fascinated and love her. But he has the wife, so he faces many difficulties.
I was interested in this story which is different from other books in point of the construction. I think love is so difficult and scare because Ethan fell in love with Mattie even though he had the wife, Zeena. So Ethan was stupid, but little poor man.
I was interested in this story which is different from other books in point of the construction. I think love is so difficult and scare because Ethan fell in love with Mattie even though he had the wife, Zeena. So Ethan was stupid, but little poor man.
Ethan Frome is a poor farmer in Starkfield.He lives with his wife, Zeena and her cousin's daughter,Mattie.Zeena doesn't have the love for him and always has interest in her own illness,so his only hope is Mattie.But thire relation is unpleasant for his wife and she tries to drive Mattie from their house.
I thought Ethan was very pitiful person.Of course,his love for Mattie is not good.But he had been hard to try for his wife and she is too selfish,so she made a cause.Its end is the bitterest for him.
I thought Ethan was very pitiful person.Of course,his love for Mattie is not good.But he had been hard to try for his wife and she is too selfish,so she made a cause.Its end is the bitterest for him.
Ethan Frome is a poor farmer in Starkfield.
He feels the sadness in his life with his wife Zeena,a cold woman,who is only interested in her own health.
Then Zeena's cousin,Mattie Silver,comes to help Zeena's houseworks and live in the farmhouse.
Ethan feels the happiness as the days pass.
He falls in love with her,but an accident happens･･･
This story is very beautiful and told sadly.
I think lives never goes on as we want.
I gave three stars to this book because I don't like the end!
He feels the sadness in his life with his wife Zeena,a cold woman,who is only interested in her own health.
Then Zeena's cousin,Mattie Silver,comes to help Zeena's houseworks and live in the farmhouse.
Ethan feels the happiness as the days pass.
He falls in love with her,but an accident happens･･･
This story is very beautiful and told sadly.
I think lives never goes on as we want.
I gave three stars to this book because I don't like the end!
This is classics book and I think this is love story. Ethan married Zeena and live with his wife's cousin Mattie. Because she has little money and no job. One day, one trouble occurred and...
To tell the truth, I couldn't understand this story well. I only understood some parts of the story. I'm sorry for Mattie because she is alone. I can't understand why people behave coldly to Mattie.
To tell the truth, I couldn't understand this story well. I only understood some parts of the story. I'm sorry for Mattie because she is alone. I can't understand why people behave coldly to Mattie.
Ethan is the main character of this story.
He is poor,but he married.
And his wife's cousin lived with them.
I felt sad when I finish reading this story.
And I can understand Ethan's thought.
Because his wife is too terible.
He is poor,but he married.
And his wife's cousin lived with them.
I felt sad when I finish reading this story.
And I can understand Ethan's thought.
Because his wife is too terible.
This is a very sad story. It is hard to overcome poverty.
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Edith Wharton was a woman of extreme contrasts; brought up to be a leisured aristocrat, she was also dedicated to her career as a writer. She wrote novels of manners about the old New York society from which she came, but her attitude was consistently critical. Her irony and her satiric touches, as well as her insight into human character, show more continue to appeal to readers today. As a child, Wharton found refuge from the demands of her mother's social world in her father's library and in making up stories. Her marriage at age 23 to Edward ("Teddy") Wharton seemed to confirm her place in the conventional role of wealthy society woman, but she became increasingly dissatisfied with the "mundanities" of her marriage and turned to writing, which drew her into an intellectual community and strengthened her sense of self. After publishing two collections of short stories, The Greater Inclination (1899) and Crucial Instances (1901), she wrote her first novel, The Valley of Decision (1902), a long, historical romance set in eighteenth-century Italy. Her next work, the immensely popular The House of Mirth (1905), was a scathing criticism of her own "frivolous" New York society and its capacity to destroy her heroine, the beautiful Lily Bart. As Wharton became more established as a successful writer, Teddy's mental health declined and their marriage deteriorated. In 1907 she left America altogether and settled in Paris, where she wrote some of her most memorable stories of harsh New England rural life---Ethan Frome (1911) and Summer (1917)---as well as The Reef (1912), which is set in France. All describe characters forced to make moral choices in which the rights of individuals are pitted against their responsibilities to others. She also completed her most biting satire, The Custom of the Country (1913), the story of Undine Spragg's climb, marriage by marriage, from a midwestern town to New York to a French chateau. During World War I, Wharton dedicated herself to the war effort and was honored by the French government for her work with Belgian refugees. After the war, the world Wharton had known was gone. Even her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence (1920), a story set in old New York, could not recapture the former time. Although the new age welcomed her---Wharton was both a critical and popular success, honored by Yale University and elected to The National Institute of Arts and Letters---her later novels show her struggling to come to terms with a new era. In The Writing of Fiction (1925), Wharton acknowledged her debt to her friend Henry James, whose writings share with hers the descriptions of fine distinctions within a social class and the individual's burdens of making proper moral decisions. R.W.B. Lewis's biography of Wharton, published in 1975, along with a wealth of new biographical material, inspired an extensive reevaluation of Wharton. Feminist readings and reactions to them have focused renewed attention on her as a woman and as an artist. Although many of her books have recently been reprinted, there is still no complete collected edition of her work. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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