Comparing Ethan Frome To The Scarlet Letter

With Ethan’s mother very sick, his cousin Zeena came to relieve Ethan and become her aunts nurse. Ethan’s mother died and after the funeral after moving out Ethan asked Zeena to marry her out of his fear of being alone in the farm house. After the marriage Zeena became sic

k and nobody knew with what and when Mattie came to help around the house. Ethan fell in love with her having another relationship while he was married. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne had an arranged marriage with Roger Chillingworth who sent her to a colony in Massachusetts before him. After two years of not seeing her husband she had an affair with her minister Reverend Dimmsdale, while she was married.

Thus concludes the depressing tales of two fictional strangers in two different times. Ethan and Hester loved another person who was not their spouse, and because of their affairs have constant reminders. Ethan’s reminder was his crippled love and his handicap, Hester’s a beautiful child. Unlike most stories these did not end happily ever after and seem more realistic than most fairy tales. While fictional it

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