Ethan Frome

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Summary: The ideal tragic love story
Review: This was an excellent work of literature. The emotion of Mattie and Ethan was very evident and could be felt by the reader. Wharton's use of suspense made one on edge through out the story. The ironic ending of the story made one feel the pain of the family's tragedy.The simplicity of the novel only added to the readality and created the atmosphere that made Ethan and the others seem like a breathing soul, as opposed to a fictional character.

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Summary: depressing plot and location, but very descriptive
Review: Ethan Frome is a tragic figure and his situation is timeless. There are obstacles facing him on every side - a barren farm, customers who don't pay for goods from his sawmill and a devious and allegedly sickly wife. Wharton does an excellent job of adding another obstacle with her descriptions of isolated, narrow minded New England of the last century. A great read. Hard to believe that anything so classic could be such a page turner.

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Summary: this book is awsome
Review: this book is slow but a great classic and is a great required reading.

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Summary: For those who love pain. . .
Review: I wanted to knock these exasperating characters' heads together and tell them all to buy a train ticket out of that depressing, bleak, repressed and soul-destroying New England nightmare that Wharton rendered so well.

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Summary: Excellent for lonely summer nights!
Review: Wow! This book was great. A friend suggested that it was great winter reading, but I saw it in the bookstore and could not wait that long. I read it in about four hours and I have to say that I really loved it. I totally related to everything Ethan and Mattie were feeling for each other, and I had to put down the book on several occasions due to the enormous lump in my throat... Anyway this book is a perfect read if you're looking for a story that makes your heart ache. Enjoy!

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Summary: A wonderful book to read in a lazy afternoon
Review: When a young bissness man is placed in Starkfeild, Massachusetts by his company that he works for, he must befriend Ethan Frome to take him to the train station. Ethan Frome unfortunaltley is not one of the warmest people you will meet there. When a horrible snow storm blows into Starkfeild and stays there for a night, our young busness man learns more about Ethan Frome than he ever even dreamed about. Once a young man tied down to an unloving wife he falls in love with his wife's nurse. A clean book for everyone to read. Order this book to learn of the Starkfeild town.

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Summary: Original and Entertaining
Review: I liked this book a lot. I really did. I thought it was incredibly original and unique. But I have read books where I was so caught up in the story and so in love with the characters that I cried upon finishing them just because there is no more to read. If this tragic ending had happened to characters I felt attached to or involved with, I would have been so moved, but I wasn't. I liked the book, but I didn't "love" it. I didn't get involved in it. That's what I look for in a book.

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Summary: Really enjoyable, but depressing.
Review: My 11th grade English class just finished reading this book and at first I liked it only because it was short and easy to read. I continued liking it, though, for a variety of reasons. One being that it was easy to feel the torment that Ethan and Mattie must have been feeling. Books like this one break my heart; the outcome seems very unfair to me (you'll just have to read it to know what I'm talking about). I have a mental list of books whose plots I plan to change to make their endings into happy ones, and this is one of them. Despite that fact, I thoroughly enjoyed it and I recommend it for anyone who's in the mood for a tragic love story.

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Summary: Ethan Frome, not a tragic hero
Review: As a highly renounced critic, I want to make it known that Edith Wharton did not intend for Ethan Frome, the main character to be declared a tragic hero. However, yes, the novel Ethan Frome is meant to be a tragedy. That is all.

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Summary: highly reccomended
Review: Never did I feel true love untill I read this book. Starts slowly but builds up to a heartbreaking conclusion. One of the best I've ever read.