A review by nightsdecay
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

4.0

I enjoyed this, but I felt bad for Zenobia. She’s framed as the villain, foiling Ethan and Mattie’s love for one another and being a complaining burden. But she’s Ethan’s wife - he proposed to her simply because he was lonely, not because he loved her - she’s trapped in a loveless marriage, poor, and ill with no one who seems to genuinely care for her. If you ask me it felt like a horror story on her part.

I admit that the descriptions of Ethan’s feelings for Mattie were romantic, but they were marred by the fact that he was a married man, and his wife’s only crime was that he didn’t love her.