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"Ethan Fromeis nothing more or less than a cruel tale of slow torture, inflicted on both characters and readers alike" Discuss.
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"Ethan Frome is nothing more or less than a cruel tale of slow torture, inflicted on both characters and readers alike." Discuss As a reader, my immediate impression of Ethan Frome was one of sympathy. |At the beginning of the novel, we see a man, trapped in a life where all his efforts go into attempting to produce a successful crop from the barren, infertile soil of New England. "That Frome farm was always 'bout and bare's a milkpan when the cats been around; and you know what one of them old water-mills is wuth nowadays." Harmon, (page 10). Using a metaphor relating the similarities of the lack of crops and the lack of milk in a milkpan after a cat has been drinking from it, empathizes the scale of poverty endured by Ethan. The horrific situation of Ethan is doubled by the burden on him by his invalid wife. "Zeena...
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