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Ethan Frome (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

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Ethan Frome was twenty-one years old when he married Zenobia Pierce, a distant cousin who nursed his sick mother during her last illness. It was a wedding without love. Zenobia, called Zeena, had no home of her own, and Ethan was lonely. So they were married. Zeena’s talkativeness, which had been pleasing to Ethan during his mother’s illness, quickly subsided, and within a year of their marriage, Zeena developed the sickliness that was to plague her husband all her life. Ethan became increasingly dissatisfied with his life. He was an intelligent and ambitious...

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