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Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold, conniving character. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately taken by Mattie's warm, vivacious personality. They fall desperately in love as he realizes how much is missing from his life and marriage. Tragically, their love is doomed by Zeena's ever-lurking presence and by the social conventions of the day. Ethan remains torn between his sense of obligation and his urge to satisfy his heart's desire up to the suspenseful and unanticipated conclusion.… (altro)
BookshelfMonstrosity: In Remembering Laughter a woman confronts her husband's escalating use of alcohol; in Ethan Frome the title character's wife is difficult and demanding. Both novels elegantly depict a husband obsessed with his wife's sister, resulting in a love triangle with tragic consequences.… (altro)
This was a solid story. I enjoyed the attention to detail and the character's personalities. I found the dynamics between the main 3 to be so different from one another which added interest. This was my first by Edith Wharton and I am looking forward to reading more in the future.
This was romantic, sad, and realistic aside from the cringe-worthy moment when Ethan kisses the fabric. If you have read this, you know what I mean. This story makes me feel fortunate to not be trapped in a loveless marriage.
This is a good short classic novel for those wanting to get into reading 'fine' literature. ( )
This was a solid story. I enjoyed the attention to detail and the character's personalities. I found the dynamics between the main 3 to be so different from one another which added interest. This was my first by Edith Wharton and I am looking forward to reading more in the future.
This was romantic, sad, and realistic aside from the cringe-worthy moment when Ethan kisses the fabric. If you have read this, you know what I mean. This story makes me feel fortunate to not be trapped in a loveless marriage.
This is a good short classic novel for those wanting to get into reading 'fine' literature. ( )
Very interesting book that I might need to read again to fully digest. The description of winter was great, starting beautiful and wonderous, but the descriptions start to wear on the reader, slowly getting more and more oppressive as the story went on, culminating in the cause of the "accident." The accident was a cruel twist, leading to a tragic, but satisfyingly fitting end.
A great read for a cold night in winter. Can be read in a single sitting. ( )
A remarkable book. With a spare style it is poetic and brings the reader into the emotional turmoil of the main character. It is Not a book for most young people. I'm sure many could understand it, but I'm not sure they could measure the depth of the questions with much personal grief. I am distressed at the number of readers here at LibraryThing who read this in middle school or high school. I hope some of them will give it another try later in life, perhaps after marriage, perhaps after adult poverty, perhaps after having or witnessing the long struggle of chronic illness, perhaps after a spell of prolongued social isolation. ( )
Ho messo insieme la storia, tassello per tassello, sulla base dei racconti di diverse persone, e, come in genere succede in questi casi, ogni volta era una storia diversa.
Il villaggio giaceva sotto due piedi di neve, con cumuli negli angoli battuti dal vento.
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He never turned his face to mine, or answered, except in monosyllables, the questions I put, or such slight pleasantries as I ventured. He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.
...we came to an orchard of starved apple-trees writing over a hillside among outcroppings of slate that nuzzled up through the snow like animals pushing out their noses to breathe. Beyond the orchard lay a field or two, their boundaries lost under drifts, and above the fields, huddled against the white immensities of land and sky, one of those lonely New England farmhouses that make the landscape lonelier.
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"(...) ... E io dico che, se Mattie fosse morta, Ethan avrebbe potuto vivere; invece, se penso a come sono ridotti adesso, non mi pare che ci sia molta differenza tra i Frome su alla fattoria e i Frome giù al camposanto; eccetto che, là in basso, stanno tutti in pace, e le donne devono tenere a freno la lingua".
Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold, conniving character. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately taken by Mattie's warm, vivacious personality. They fall desperately in love as he realizes how much is missing from his life and marriage. Tragically, their love is doomed by Zeena's ever-lurking presence and by the social conventions of the day. Ethan remains torn between his sense of obligation and his urge to satisfy his heart's desire up to the suspenseful and unanticipated conclusion.
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This was romantic, sad, and realistic aside from the cringe-worthy moment when Ethan kisses the fabric. If you have read this, you know what I mean. This story makes me feel fortunate to not be trapped in a loveless marriage.
This is a good short classic novel for those wanting to get into reading 'fine' literature. (