Ethan Frome | Techniques
Wharton employs a first-person narrator in this work, an outsider who has taken up residence at Starkfield and who pieces together the story of Ethan Frome. The narrator hardly functions as a character at all, but as an educated outsider he possesses the skills needed to tell this story. According to Wharton, "only the narrator of the tale has scope enough to see it all, to resolve it back into simplicity, and to put it in its rightful place among his larger categories."
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