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full of the same dumb melan-choly that Ethan felt in his heart.
The place that he is at is also a representation of his emotions.
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Tears rose in his throat
He knows he can’t just leave Zeena and run away with Mattie.
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Ethan was fired by the thought
Is he not taking into consideration that Zeena is sick and needs assistance?
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He no longer believed whatZeena had told him of the supposed seriousness of her state:he saw in her expeditionto Bettsbridge only a plot
He has no compassion for Zeena, now he only believes she went to the doctor in spite of him. I’m sure this won’t help her in getting what she needs to get better.
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and went back to her chair by the lamp.
Maybe this is a way of foreshadowing that Ethan will never get married to Mattie?
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he reflected grimly thathis seven years with Zeena seemed to Starkfield “not so long.”
It seems to me that Ethan feels like he has been married to Zeena for a long time because he doesn’t really like her. He seems to feel trapped in his marriage?
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He had often thought since that itwould not have happened if his mother had died in springinstead of winter.
So basically he married Zeena because he didn’t want to be lonely?
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After the mortal silence of his long imprisonmentZeena’s volubility was music in his ears
He liked Zeena because it was refreshing to finally hear another person in the house. Is that the only reason he married her?
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but both of them knew that it was not like Zeena to forget.
I’m guessing Zeena did this on purpose because she knows Ethan likes Mattie.
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his desire for change and freedom.
Is Mattie that change he was looking for? Is he looking for freedom because he feels trapped with his sick wife?
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He even noticed two or three gestures which, in his fatu-ity,9he had thought she kept for him:
Is seeing Mattie do things he thought she only did with him makes him wonder if she likes him as much as he likes her? Does he like her romantically?
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Then he learned that one other spirit had trembledwith the same touch of wonder
I think he sees himself in his wife’s cousin. He notices her curiosity and it probably reminds him of a younger version of himself.
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end to Ethan’s studies
Ethan was smart but the toll of his fathers death held him back from continuing his studies.
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the snow began to fallagain, cutting off our last glimpse of the house; and Frome’ssilence fell with it,
Could the weather represent Ethans emotions or maybe his thoughts?
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neitherpoverty nor physical suffering could have put there
Is the narrator inferring that Ethan Frome has been through more then physical suffering and poverty, maybe something like mental or emotional trauma?
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“Yes, I knew them both . . .it was awful . . .”
When she says both is she talking about Ethan Fromes wife? Is his wife an important part of the story that the narrator is trying to discover?
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thinking how gal-lantly his lean brown head, with its shock of light hair, musthave sat on his strong shoulders before they were bent out ofshape.
Has his personality changed since the smash-up? Has his new physique changed the way he carries himself?
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Everyone in Starkfield knew him
If everyone in Starkfield knew him then why did the narrator say you’d ask who he was?
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addressed to Mrs.Zenobia—or Mrs. Zeena—Frome,
Is this his wife?
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Even then he was themost strikingfigure in Starkfield, though he was but the ruinof a man.
Does this town have lot of boring/unattractive people that make Ethan Frome seem striking? Do most people from this town find him striking or is it just the personal opinion of the narrator?
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and you must have asked who he was.
Is he not from Starkfield? Is it not usual for strangers to go there? Is there something about him that makes him stand out?
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