... a clear indication that a novel will conclude with 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 ... a sheet of show perpetually renewed [he] began to see what life "or rather its negation "must have been like in Ethan Frome's young manhood- (Wharton 4). Ethan, like Starkfield, is seemingly covered by a white sheet, or shroud, unable to escape from his isolation and sufferinjg. His life is ... ...

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Nature's Puppet- "Ethan Frome" Its arguable, Edith Wharton, in Ethan Frome, uses the environment of Starkfield to act as a reflection of the characters souls, most notably Ethan's, but even more so, she uses it to reflect the perpetual failure that comes to be Ethan's life. In order to do this she painstakingly ... and the town when he retells what Harmon says "Guess he's been in Starkfield too many winters. Most of the smart ones get away." (Ethan Frome, Introduction) By saying that "most of the smart ones get away", the author is making a representation that those who do not become aware ....

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