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Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

3.31 AVERAGE


a short oldie but wonderful. perfect forbidden love story but is so sad but so pretty
dark sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Releer este libro en invierno, de noche mayoritariamente, ha sido lo mejor. Es una historia que te atrapa y es capaz de dejarte pensando en la miseria de sus protagonistas. Ha sido una relectura maravillosa para estas fechas y la última del año (para entrar a 2019 con positivismo jajaja).
dark sad medium-paced
dark emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes

Do they subject kids to this in high school? So dismal. Reread it recently to see if it was as dire as I remembered, and it was. Why didn't we read Age of Innocence instead?

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A pesar de ser un libro tan corto, me ha sorprendido muchísimo.

I remember reading this in high school and really liking it. I think it was junior year. That year we were able to read some really great books and I actually enjoyed reading books I was told I had to.

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.
5 stars for Edith Wharton's prose and that haunting ending

Well, this is what you get when you don't make divorce freely accessible and socially tolerated