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amyschmelzer 's review for:
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
sad
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
This is a perfect novella for winter reading.
I grew up knowing the title but not being familiar with the story itself. After reading it I can say it’s a frame narrative where our unnamed narrator is like “who’s this quiet guy Ethan with the physical disability? what’s his story?” The people in town tell him what they can but it’s not much. It’s not until Narrator meets Ethan when E attempts to drive him to a jobsite in the middle of a snowstorm and they have to spend the night at the Frome homestead that Ethan’s backstory unfolds.
I will leave it at that. The structure of the story works. The length of it works.
I grew up knowing the title but not being familiar with the story itself. After reading it I can say it’s a frame narrative where our unnamed narrator is like “who’s this quiet guy Ethan with the physical disability? what’s his story?” The people in town tell him what they can but it’s not much. It’s not until Narrator meets Ethan when E attempts to drive him to a jobsite in the middle of a snowstorm and they have to spend the night at the Frome homestead that Ethan’s backstory unfolds.
I will leave it at that. The structure of the story works. The length of it works.