Ethan_Frome

Ethan Frome Whipped Ethan Frome, the main character of the story, experiences a wave of new changes that uplifts his life. Ethan falls in love and marries the women sent to care for his ill mother. Five years later, this woman, his wife, becomes sickly. Then another girl comes to her care and he falls in love with her. Through this whole duration of time Ethan tries to change himself and the way he acts. In the end however, by fate or by choice, he always ends up the caretaker, the one taking orders. Ethan’s mother grew ill when he was just twenty-one years old. Ethan, still a young man, was unable to care for his mother on his own. The family sent him a distant cousin, Zenobia Pierce, to his and his mother’s aid. After spending a large amount of time with Zeena, Ethan grew to love her. He may have seen his mother’s warm and compassion in her, or he may have just needed someone around. This is his first sign of weakness that shows, he has to have dependency on some motherly figure to feel secure. Once his mother ethan, frome, mattie, zeena, one, time, out, mother, man, life, ethan’s, care, women, woman, took, place, mother’s, love, becomes, always, wife, take, station, soon, sent, person, motherly, live, just, ill, however, hill, healthy, grew, first, fantasy, falls, everything, comes, zeena’s, young, years, whole, weakness, way, wanted, victim, until, tries, through, thought