Ethan_Frome

Ethan Frome Ethan Frome saw the potential that he possessed. He realized the things he was capable of doing and being, but was constantly stunted by his own inhibitions and backward country environment. There were many conflicts concerning his possibilities and limitations that corroded him and caused inner turmoil. When Mattie Silver came to stay at his house, he realized a spirit that radiated from her. It reminded him of himself. He sub-consciously perceived her as an embodiment of all the ideals he thwarted upon himself. Mattie became the vehicle Ethan used to try to bring forth his ideal image and “self’ to reality. Ethan had tried to elicit the natural and free man from himself. He manifested a clear genuine curiosity for the sciences. He went to a technical college to nurture and sustain his energy. Unfortunately, this effort to educate himself ended when his father died. “He had always been more sensitive than the people about him to the appeal to natural beauty... His unfinished studies had given form to this sensibility... But hitherto the emotion had remained in him as a silent ache, veiling with sadness the beauty that evoked it.” self, ethan, frome, himself, mattie, felt, people, natural, ideal, being, try, though, things, spirit, since, left, ideals, bring, became, alone, trying, sub-consciously, saw, realized, others, one, never, learned, free, controlling, control, beauty, 25, zeena, without, winter, way, wanted, vehicle, trait, time, thought, themselves, stay, someone, seemed, power, person, out, obtain