... Ethan Frome's Dishonor to Responsibilities Ethan Frome by, Edith Wharton is a story of an ill-fated love, set during the winter of a rural New England town called Starkfield. Ethan is a farmer who is married to a sickly woman named Zeena, whom he had previously taken the responsibility of caring for his sick mother with. They both live the lives of unspoken resentment, on Ethan's failing farm. Ethan ... fend for herself in the dark world of Starkfield. "If she'd [Mattie'd] ha' died, Ethan might ha' lived" This has become one of the most meaningful quotes in the book. It is horribly ironic...

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