... the actual death of a main character. This is especially true of Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome, as its prevelant death imagery leads many readers to predict the death of Mattie Silver. However, the correlation between the imagery and the plot is not quite so direct. In actuality, Edith Wharton surrounds Ethan with death imagery to illustrate that his life is in ... ...

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