Ethan_Frome

Ethan Frome Ethan Frome was considered by many to be Edith Wharton’s finest novel. This dismal and depressing tale of tragedy and hopelessness won her great acclaim as an author. Wharton engaged the reader with her usage of a clear theme, literary devices, and fascinating characters. The end result of her work on the novel is a tale of such sadness and despondency that emotional readers are overwhelmed. Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a wealthy family involved in New York City society. Her career began with her use of clever satire to demean her New York society. Her reputation and place in history as a novelist was established beyond a doubt with the publication of The House of Mirth in 1905. (another satire) In 1911, Wharton wrote her finest novel Ethan From while in France with her husband Edward. Wharton spent the remainder of her life in France, but still involved her writing with subjects about America. Her last novel Bunner Sisters was published in 1909, and Edith Wharton passed away in 1937. Wharton was a writer of the twentieth century. Therefore, her ideas went along with those of other American writers of that time period. Wharton, like such successful ethan, novel, mattie, zeena, wharton, life, frome, theme, starkfield, love, led, care, true, story, escape, character, about, zeena’s, sled, setting, represented, one, finally, very, tragedy, town, throughout, seen, new, never, isolation, important, been, after, accident, winter, wife, while, wharton’s, usage, unavoidable, therefore, tale, silver, shown, readers, reader, place, out, married, marriage