Ethan Frome

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Summary: If you want a book where nothing happens, this is for you!
Review: In this book nothing happens. Don't even bother reading it. NOTHING HAPPENS! It's about this guy, Ethan, who falls in love with his hypocondriact wife's cousin, Mattie. His wife is sickly, so he decides to cheat on her, except he never actually cheats on her. Mattie and Ethan have one night alone together, but they don't do anything. (that would only happen in a good book) The ending is ironic in a sick/sad kind of way. So if you're into the whole "I like to date/marry my cousin" thing or you like reading stories that are written a hundred years ago and move slower than anything you can ever imagine, then this is definately the book you want!

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Summary: Ethan Frome
Review: The novel, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, is set in a snowy landscape of New England in the nineteenth century. Ethan Frome, which is the main character, takes care of his house, farm, and sick wife, Zeena. Zeena's cousin, Mattie has come to live with them and care for the house and Zeena as she fights her way to recovery. Ethan has a hard time with this because he was starting to fall in love with this young lady, which took place when Zeena left to find out that she was suffering from a kidney disease. Ethan knowing it is morally wrong, wants to be with Mattie more than anything even if he gets publicly embarrassed.

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Summary: This is to J.T. and others
Review: The red pickle dish sybilizes the passion between Mattie and Ethan. This a great book the conflicts of man vs. society and man vs. himself. Ethan Frome is a book that ca be read on any level.

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Summary: What does the red pickle dish symbolize
Review: Hi my name is J.T. I'm currently a freshman in high school.I began reading a little more this year, not only because I have for English class but for my own enjoyment and pleasure. About a week ago I started to read Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. My teacher said that this has been a book that has read for many years even when she was in high school. Let me tell you this was a very book but what I didnt understand is what the red pickle dish symbolized.I will remember through high school and I hope to purchase this book as soon as possible. If you have read this book and would like to fill me in please do and e-mail me at [e-mail]

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Summary: Ethan Frome, I guess
Review: It was allright, I liked when that thing happened to that guy

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Summary: Great... must read!
Review: this was a great and beautifully written story... i'm not someone who is into romantic books but this was one of the few i love! The author could have made the book more interesting and had them live happliy ever after.... i recommmend this book to anyone! maybe gurls will like it better... a great must read!

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Summary: I actually enjoyed this book
Review: In my English class we had just finished reading the book The Scarlet Letter, a so-called classic. Well, when I first picked up this book I thought to myself, not another boring book, but as I began to get into the story I really started to like it. I love the irony of the ending.

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Summary: Full of mesmerizing images
Review: A great story of wasted love, compassion, and the eagerness of men to escape from their "prisons." Description of the landscape in relation to the mood of every scene is masterful. The unspeakable pain Ethan and Mattie have to suffer is unbearably heart-wrenching. Surprising and revealing ending.

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Summary: I'm a high school junior and I loved "Ethan Frome!"
Review: I think that the high school students who felt that they had "Ethan Frome" pressured upon them don't appreciate the message that Edith Wharton is trying to express or didn't read the book. Here is an excellent book that any teenager, no matter how much they hate to read, can relate to. Ethan and Mattie's unexpressable love is easy to understand and is brought to one of the highest emotional peaks of any book that I have ever read. Imagine being young and passionate while married to a wife who is seven years your senior, depressingly dull and constantly sick. Her beautiful cousin who is there to help about the house, falls in love with you and you're absolutely unable to express your love in any way at all. Who can't relate (or at least imagine that they can relate) to that? Edith Wharton knows the essence of human love and expresses it vividly and emotionally in "Ethan Frome."

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Summary: Unexpected ending makes the novel!
Review: Ethan Frome was an awesome book! I FELT SO BAD FOR ETHAN! He was such a sweet guy and he could not change any of the horrible circumtances that his life brought him. I loved Mattie and I think that she deserved a better life than what she ended up with. Wharton describes these characters so well that at the end of the novel I felt that I knew Ethan and Mattie for years. I knew that Zeena was a hypocondriac from the begining of the novel and I did not like her shallow attempt for the attention of all those who knew her. Overall this book is really good because it is concise and has an unexpecting ending.