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Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

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Ethan Frome Questions and Answers

What are some examples of foreshadowing in Ethan Frome?

How is communication an important theme in Ethan Frome?

What are some rhetorical devices in Ethan Frome?

What is some foreshadowing in the prologue to chapter 2 of Ethan Frome?

Explain the irony found in the Ethan Frome. at least three examples, situations and/or details to support your topic sentence.

Please give some similes and metaphors from Chapter Five of Ethan Frome.

In Ethan Frome, explain the situational analysis in the ending scene in Ethan's kitchen at the farmhouse?

In Ethan Frome, what are the major internal and external conflicts?

Is Ethan gay?  

In Ethan Frome what reason does Ethan give for not driving Zeena to the station?

When did Ethan Frome's father die in relation to his mother's death?

In Ethan Frome, what makes Ethan a tragic hero?

In the Conclusion of Ethan Frome, who spoke in "the querulous drone" as the narrator entered the house?

What does Mattie want to run into in chapter 6 in the book Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton?

What is the climax in Ethan Frome?

In Ethan Frome, how long had Ethan and Zeena been married when Mattie came to the farm?

How does the narrator's imagery in Ethan Frome establish the reader's first impression of Ethan?

What does the presence of the unnamed narrator in Ethan Frome's introduction and conclusion contribute to the effects of the novel?

Explain one the themes in Ethan Frome.

What are the similes in chapter 7 of Ethan Frome in the bedroom scene?

Can anyone explain this alliteration from Ethan Frome? : "There was in him a slumbering spark of sociability..." It is referring to Ethan. "There was in him a slumbering spark of sociability...". It is referring to Ethan.

In the book Ethan Frome, what was significant about the pickle dish from the store?

In Ethan Frome, how does Ethan and Mattie's hidden relationship demonstrate the universal truths of love and compassion?

In Chapter 9, why does Ethan Frome command Mattie to sit behind him?

In the novel Ethan Frome, what does Mattie say when Ethan asks if she is leaving them?

What is the significance of this passage from Ethan Frome?

Please explain how Ethan Frome fits into the Feminist genre when the narrator and even the main character are males.

I need a thesis statement for the following in Ethan Frome. Ethan Frome is a tragic hero because ____________,__________, and___________.

Write a character analysis of Ethan of Ethan Frome. What are the strengths and weaknesses of his character? Is he a good man or not?

In Ethan Frome how did the narrator meet Ethan?

In Ethan Frome who is the tragic figure who acts as a instrument for the suffering of others?

In Ethan Frome, would Ethan be better off if Mattie had died?

In Ethan Frome, how did Ethan feel the morning after spending the evening with Mattie alone?

What are three examples of similarities and three examples of differences between the novel and the movie Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. 

Examine the line that Mrs. Hale speaks in the last paragraph of Ethan Frome. Why are these lines significant? "I said it right out to our mister once, and he was shocked at me.  Only he wasn’t with me that morning when she first came to… And I say, if she’d ha’ died, Ethan might ha’ lived; and the way they are now, I don’t see’s much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard…"

In Ethan Frome, is Ethan and Mattie's one night alone more intimate than it would have been had they become lovers during Zeena's absence?

What images dominate the quarrel between Ethan and Zenobia about Mattie's dismissal?

In Ethan Frome, what are three facts about Ethan that keep him a prisoner for life that he can't control?

What does the sled in the book Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton symbolize?

Do you feel any sympathy for Ethan's wife Zeena?

In Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, based on Chapters 1-5, why is Zeena dissatisfied with Mattie?

In the novel "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton, what is Chapter 1 about? Summarize

What is the symbolism in the story Ethan Frome?

What do you think Mattie says to Ruth when she wakes up?

How is Ethan Frome a feminist novel?

What is the archetypal setting in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.

In Ethan Frome, what comparison does Edith Wharton use to show that Mattie brings warmth into an otherwise barren household?

Is there a moral to Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton? At first I thought the moral was "Don't take on what you can't handle" but I am not entirely sure.

What are some examples of personification in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton?

What can the setting of Ethan Frome best be described as?