Edith Wharton(伊迪丝·沃顿)简介 伊迪丝·纽博尔德·琼斯出生于社会上杰出的中产阶级父母(“跟上琼斯”一词指的是她的两个曾姑姑),伊迪丝·沃顿的文学野心让她的商人阶级家庭感到惊讶和略微尴尬。沃顿23岁时与波士顿富人泰迪·沃顿结婚,直到40多岁时住在马萨诸塞州莱诺克斯时,沃顿才开始全职写作和出版小说。她以《...
Chapter 5 Summary PDF Cite Share Lori Steinbach, M.A. | Certified Educator After dinner, Ethan goes to care for the animals for the night while Mattie tidies the kitchen. When he returns, Ethan sees the picture he envisioned, Mattie sitting with her sewing by the light of a lamp. It...
SUMMARYSet in a small village in rural Massachusetts during the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries, Ethan Frome chronicles the tragic fortunes of Ethan Frome,his wife Zeena, and Zeena's cousin, Mattie Silver. In the frame story, we learn that Ethan is trapped by poverty and an ...
The literature in this case is a 1911 novella byEdith Wharton(1862-1937), who set her story in a bleak New England village. A young minister, new in town, is struck by the sight of Ethan Frome limping awkwardly through the snow. He hires Frome for his driver, but discovers next to n...
Edith WhartonClassics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He...
Ethan Frome:Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton is narrated by a businessman who visits Starkfield, Massachusetts and meets Ethan Frome. During one snowy night, Ethan relates the series of events that led to him becoming crippled for life, along with the woman he once loved. Ethan fell in love ...
Summary Ethan calls Zeena's name up the stairs but receives no answer. He enters the bedroom and sees her sitting by the window, in the dark, still in her traveling dress. Ethan tells her that supper is ready, but she says she is not hungry. Then she informs Ethan, "I'm a great ...
By taking the reader through Ethan Frome’s winding emotional journey, Edith Wharton in Ethan Frome, examines the effects of both physical, as well as emotional isolation on the human condition. The novel is set in the frigid winter, likely in the late 1800’s, in the rural, secluded, fic...
A patrician who wrote most often of the fashionable 19th-century New York society she knew so well, Edith Wharton was inspired to write the novel "Ethan Frome" after spending summers at her home in Lenox, Massachusetts. Born during the Civil War and dying near the start of World War II,...
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