... his dark brown clothing, and Mattie in the red shawl, which also connected one of the themes in the book to the novel, the theme of passion or love. The setting was also well done. Starkfield was just as I had imagined it, a warm town with a close-knit community; everyone knows ... everyone. But the film's producer, John Madden, also includes the fact that Ethan is removed from this town, isolated on top of the hill overlooking the town. His land is dead, and his house is cold and falling apart. The dead ... so zombie-like and wretched that a person would just have to feel bad for Ethan...

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... out the story of Ethan Frome, the author, Edith Wharton, uses the color red as a major symbol in the story. Wharton put a twist on the concept of the symbol, normally used to represent love and passion, which is one of her uses, but also it signifies the sinful thoughts and transgressions that Ethan and Mattie think about ... so often. In the bleak white New England landscape the color red stands out " the cold red of sunset behind winter hills- (17), just as Mattie stands out so starkly in Ethan's ... no reason to continue living, but he does and cares for the two women for many more...

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... would live until death. Her close friend and associate in France was fellow American Henry James, who shared Wharton's passion for moral vs. immoral themes and prompts. Ethan Frome, perhaps Wharton's most well known work, was published in 1911. Unlike most of Wharton's other writings, Ethan Frome's setting was not in an upper class suburban atmosphere, but a desolate wintry village in Massachusetts. Wharton based the ... Massachusetts. Wharton thought the sleigh ride catastrophe to be an alluring extended metaphor for the misconduct of a furtive love affair. The characters in Ethan From...

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