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Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome is a young man married to an insufferable woman named Zeena who thinks that she is an invalid. To help her out around the house, Ethan takes in her orphaned cousin, a young woman named Mattie. Ethan has lived a dark, lonely life, quitting school to take care of his parents and then marrying Zeena and taking care of her. Mattie finally brings some light into his life. This is their story.
I pretty much hated this. The whole thing was dark and depressing. I felt terrible for Ethan and I really couldn't stand his wife. I do have to say that the book was well-written; I felt like I was in a harsh New England winter. But I'm just a little too much of a Pollyanna to enjoy this book.
Sort of on a sidenote, I read this in a daily email form from dailylit.com (am I allowed to write that?). I missed holding a book. It was also a little hard to take an email as seriously as I take books. My email mostly consists of jokes from friends and various newsletters. Not literature, much less literature that is supposed to be classic. That may have distorted my feelings for the book a little bit, but this is really just a book that I would hate, no matter what format I read it in.
I pretty much hated this. The whole thing was dark and depressing. I felt terrible for Ethan and I really couldn't stand his wife. I do have to say that the book was well-written; I felt like I was in a harsh New England winter. But I'm just a little too much of a Pollyanna to enjoy this book.
Sort of on a sidenote, I read this in a daily email form from dailylit.com (am I allowed to write that?). I missed holding a book. It was also a little hard to take an email as seriously as I take books. My email mostly consists of jokes from friends and various newsletters. Not literature, much less literature that is supposed to be classic. That may have distorted my feelings for the book a little bit, but this is really just a book that I would hate, no matter what format I read it in.