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Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Entertaining.
Review: This book had a very good plot. I liked it and reccomend it to anyone. The author writes it with alot of description of the characters and the setting. The story begins with the narrator having to meet Ethan Frome, the main character, by accident. The story then evolves on how Ethan is married to Zeena, but ends up falling in love with Zeena's cousin, Mattie. They try to flee together but both have an accident . Sad ending, but just a well written story that I just loved reading.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: ETHAN FROME
Review: I THINK ETHAN FROME WAS A GREAT BOOK BECAUSE THE AUTHOR EDITH WHARTON CREATES A CIRCLE OF EVENTS THAT CAUSES A EXAMPLE OF TRAGEDY. BUT WHEN ALL THE EVENTS ARE PUT TOGETHER IT BECOMESA DEEPER INTERNAL STRUGGLE FOR HAPPINESS AND LIFE. I THINK THE STORY SETS UP THE READER IN THE MELANCHOLY LIFE OF ETHAN FROME. THE ONLY BAD PART WAS WHEN ETHAN MARRIES HIS COUSIN ZENOBIA. THE PART I THOUGHT THAT WAS REALLY CRAZY WAS WHEN ETHAN AND MATTIE TRIED THE KILL THEMSELVES BY RIDING A SLED INTO A TREE.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Ethan Frome Review
Review: Ethan Frome was a good story. Ethan Frome and Zeena were married to each other. Ethan Frome fell in love with another woman named Mattie Silver. Ethan Frome had to keep his love a secret because Mattie was Zeenas cousin and because he was married to Zeena. In the end Ethan and Mattie try to run away with each other. Ethan and Mattie crash into a tree as they were sledding down a hill. Mattie survived but Ethan died from the crash. I recommend this story because it teaches you many morals and it is written clearly.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: DEPRESSING
Review: Ethan Frome is a good book about love. It describes a love story about a married guy who falls in love with someone else. At first he hid it from everyone until he could not take it any more. He felt it was wrong especially since his wife helped live through a lot probloms. Although he decided to run away with his new love. Toward the end he felt he could not deal with it and him and his love decided to die together. Their plan did not work and left them scared. ... I recomend this book to everyone who loves romance, but not to anyone who is depressed.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Life is full of moral LESSONS!
Review: I liked this story alot because it contained many moral lessons. One of the lessons was not to rush into situations without completely understanding all the details about this situation. Ethan and Zeena got married but Ethan didn't care for Zeena at all. He was trying to simply repay her for taking care of his mother during her sickness. During the course of this marriage, Ethan's heart falls for another woman. The woman who steals his heart is Mattie ( Zeena's cousin), who was summoned to the house to care for Zeena during her sickness. Zeena later discovers the relationship between Ethan and Mattie and tells Ethan to send Mattie away, saying that she wasn't much help. Ethan takes Mattie to the train station, they get on a sled and intentionally crashes into a tree, in an attempt to kill themselves. This plan was not successful and soon Zeena has to care for Ethan and Mattie on a farm. This book displays the characters being trapped in emotional prisons. Some are romantic, very violent, and simply harsh. Personally I would refer this book to someone who's in a relationship and isn't positive if the partner feels the same way he/she feels about the other partner. Sometimes "Love is blind"

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Ethan Frome
Review: I liked this book a lot. It was very interesting, and it can relate to a lot of people these days. My opinion is that you have to fall in love with somebody first and then think about marriage, and Ethan didn't love Zeena at all, he just did it because he didn't have any way to pay her back for taking care of his sick mother. Later on in the marriage he fell in love with another girl(Mattie) that came to help out in the house because Zeena was sick. Ethan and Mattie kept on hiding their relationship from Zenna for a long time until they both had an accident and Zenna had to take care of both of them.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Nice Read
Review: I enjoyed this book. It was well written and short.

Ethan Frome is a tragedy about a man who is married to Zeena, a woman who he was not in love with. Zeena is strongly concerned about her health and tends to be depressing company. In comes her cousin, Mattie Silver who is young and healthy. Ethan is strongly attracted to her and she to him. He is torn between the two women while trying to make a living on his farm. When Zeena tells him that Mattie must go, Ethan is beside himself and he discovers that he cannot affort to flee with Mattie which is what he yearns to do. Neither one can say goodbye.
What will they do? You'll have to read to find out.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Bad Book
Review: I had to read this for school Sophomore year and it was completely horrible. It was really borig and not good at all. I hated it, and it's not like I just don't like to read. I read all the time and usually like if not at least appriciate all thee books I read, but this one was justall around bad. Read it if you're an Englih teacher, their the only people who seem to like it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Ethan Frome
Review: Edith Wharton's book Ethan Frome is a good book. Many people can relate to Ethan's situation of loving someone else, when they are already married to somebody. This plot is very captivating and because of this the reader connects with the characters. The characters in the story are very relatable, for example Ethan's shyness toward telling Mattie that he loved her, this relates to some guys today. To make the story more interesting Ethan should have followed through with his plans of running away to stay with Mattie. I also thought it a surprise that all three of the main characters Ethan, Zeena and Mattie ended up living together at the end of the book. I recommend this book to anyone but more toward women because its a love story.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: NICE!
Review: I liked the story enough to keep on reading it, and to tell others to read it. I love the way Edith Wharton writes she's such a brilliant writer. I also liked the story because it was inspiring to me. The reason it was so inspiring because Zeena always took care of her mother no matter what, because in the past before she got sick she always made sure that Zeena was alright, and that's what inspired me, to always take care of your parents if they need you no matter what!!


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