Ethan_Frome

Ethan Frome Ethan Frome The main character in the book entitled Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton is in fact Ethan Frome who has many complex problems going on at the same time. Ethan’s family has died which is taking it’s toile on Ethan. Plus his wife is always sick and nagging Ethan. The only escape that he seems to get is with his wife’s cousin Mattie. This, however, at times proves to be hard because of Ethan's wife’s interference. Nothing seems to be going in Ethan's favor. The main theme of this book is failure, and this is shown through marrying his wife. The first way failure is shown in the book is through the marriage of Ethan and his wife. He married her because she had tried to help his mother recover from an illness, and once his mother died he could not bear the thought of living in the house alone. His wife was seven years his older and always seemed to have some kind of illness. It seemed all she ever did was complain, and he resented this because it stifled his growing soul. Since his wife was continuously ill, and her cousin needed a place to ethan, wife, mattie, failure, book, zeena, frome, being, mother, help, ethan's, because, seemed, main, house, always, married, just, instead, cousin, after, years, way, tree, through, theme, stand, sickly, sick, going, first, farm, ethan’s, died, day, come, around, able, wrong, wife’s, wanted, very, tried, took, told, together, time, thought, stay, soon