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Summary: Quality reading for the competant, old-fashioned romantic
Review: It has been said that students will fall asleep, be bored, and/or be extremely confused when reading Ethan Frome. Although this may be so, those particular students must be the ones who neglect to have an open mind, or who have little taste for old-fashioned romance. Ethan Frome is a terrific novella, describing the three most important days of three main characters lives. The plot may lack the more modern-day romance and a fairy-tale ending, but this only makes the book more unique and realistic. Almost every situation that was presented in this book could also happen to an Ethan Frome of today, and these situations are much more likely to occur than the overly dramatic and sappy situations presented in many romance novels. There are numerous morals and lessons to be found, all of which should be appled to everyone's life, especially the lessons learned by Ethan Frome. This book really is quality reading, and is highly recommended to anyone willing and able to pick it up and read the introduction. For once you do, you will be through the entire story before you know it.
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Summary: Not the best way to spend money
Review: I read this book because it was recommended to me. I can't imagine why. It has all the emotions of a rock, has no depth, nor did it strike my interest in any way. For nearly the entire book, I found myself criticizing the main characters for their lameness and stupidity. It is now taking up space somewhere in a corner, and will probably remain there until it turns to dust. There was only one good thing about this book: it was short.
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Summary: Wharton used a dictionary of symbolism to write this book.
Review: While I have no objection to this book's ultimate chilling conclusion about justice (or lack thereof) in life, I found Edith Wharton's style deplorable. In short: "Here. I just thought up an excellent symbol, and it's really obvious what it stands for. But still, because I'm oh-so-proud of myself, let me tell you exactly what it means."The only use for this book is as an instruction book in identifying symbolism -- but even for that, it's a bit too basic and clearcut. Basically, don't bother, unless you enjoy seeing examples of bad writing. It is disgraceful that a work so lacking in literary quality is read in numerous schools. A multitude of films and other books mock Ethan Frome. It's not hard to see why.
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Summary: That's it?
Review: I was assigned this book for my junior American Lit class. When I recieved it, I thought, crud. I have to read this whole stupid story about a gimpy man and his crabby wife. However, once I slogged through the introduction, I was captivated. I read the whole book the first night I had it. I just had to find out what happened to Ethan and Mattie! The personalities and settings were so vivid, it drew me right in. Then I got to the end. Boo. I'm not giving it away, but all I could say was, THAT'S IT?
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Summary: I thought Edith Wharton did a fantastic job on this book..
Review: I thought that Edith Wharton did a fantastic job on this book, yet the concept of traveling back and forth through time confused me. It was, overall, a great story with a wonderful plot and a great higher meaning in the story. I think that if Ethan truly loved Matty, he should have told his wife and saved Matty and him a lot of trouble. In conclusion, I think this was a wonderful piece of work and I encourage anyone to pick up this book and read it.
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Summary: A very sad, tragic love story!!!
Review: This book was a very sad, tragic love story. I couldn't help but feel very sorry for Ethan Frome and Matty. Ethan's wife was a very miserable woman and it seemed to me that she was only happy when other people were more miserable than she. She was sick and dying when everyone else was healthy and capable, when Ethan and Matty were injured then she took charge and took care of them, a little too unrealistic for me that she would take care of her husband and the woman she thought he wanted. I guess stranger things have happened. It was just a very sad sad story all the way around for everyone involved.
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Summary: Its like a dramtic fairy tale
Review: Ethan Frome was a dramatic book. Ethan Frome himself was a big charecter of this book. It is all about love and all that stuff. It is kinda like the seven deadly sins!! I thought this was a good book. I had to read it with my 10th grade english class. Ethan is a tragic hero in this tragic and dramtic love story!
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Summary: A tragic novel of illicit love.
Review: Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton is one of the most tragic novels I have ever read. Although it was tragic, it left a major impact on me, like most tragic novels do. I never thought I would encounter another book as depressing as Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, but Ethan Frome most certainly was. This novel expresses the power of love and what love will do to one's actions. The actions of the two main characters, Ethan Frome and Mattie Silver may appear shocking and foolish to the reader, but eventually the reader can acknowledge the fact that love makes one desperate; desperate enough to what ever it takes to attain love. This is a story of a simple man who desperately wants true love, but who eventually realizes love is hopeless. Ethan Frome's love for Mattie Silver causes the two to partake in an unthinkable act. I would love to share the ending of this novel, but it's an experience one should do on their own. Read this book and it will leave an impact on you and when you look back at this book you will almost feel the pain and isolation of the two characters. Alfred Kazin once stated, "For love to really be love, it must be forbidden, it must fail, it must carry the doomed lovers down with it." Edith Wharton uses this theme, illicit love to present "a drama of irresistible necessity."
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Summary: This was a good book especially after reading two times.
Review: This was a good book that was even better the second time. I picked up different thinkgs the second time of reading it. I also am a little older so I understood it better.
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Summary: For those who love a page turner that actually has plot...
Review: Read this book..
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