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... The state of Ethan Frome’s decaying, old farmhouse serves to further emphasize the sense of doom in his life and mirrors the downfall of his own life.
When snow buries Starkfield each year, the emotions, dreams, and initiative of sensitive souls like Ethan also become buried, destroyed by the "long stretches of sunless cold" (8). ... One character, Harmon Gow, says “Guess [Ethan]’s been in Starkfield too many winters“ (7). From this, the narrator goes on to say that “[Ethan] seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe” (14). ...
From the outset, the narrator found Frome "the most striking" resident of Starkfield as well as "the ruin of a man" (3) Fromes striking nature owes in part to his crippled body and stiff face, the result of his suicide attempt with Mattie. ... Fromes farmhouse reflects Frome’s own decrepit state.
Approximate Word count = 708
Approximate Pages = 2.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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