Comparing_Ethan_Frome_To_The_Scarlet_Letter

Comparing Ethan Frome To The Scarlet Letter “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton is about a man named Ethan and his struggle to find happiness. He lives in a run down farm with his wife Zeena who thinks that she is sick. After Taking care of Zeena for six years they hire Mattie to help around the house, Ethan falls in love with her and they have a relationship suspicious to Zeena. This novel is quite similar to “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathanial Hawthorne. Some of the main similarities are, affairs outside their marriages and physical memories resulting from them as well as unhappy endings. With Ethan’s mother very sick, his cousin Zeena came to relieve Ethan and become her aunts nurse. Ethan’s mother died and after the funeral after moving out Ethan asked Zeena to marry her out of his fear of being alone in the farm house. After the marriage Zeena became sick and nobody knew with what and when Mattie came to help around the house. Ethan fell in love with her having another relationship while he was married. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne had an arranged marriage with Roger Chillingworth who sent her to a colony ethan, frome, scarlet, letter, zeena, mattie, after, love, hester, dimmsdale, while, two, sick, out, house, help, farm, ethan’s, chillingworth, away, alone, years, wanted, town, tales, suspicious, sent, same, run, roger, reverend, rest, relationship, mother, married, marriage