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Ethan Frome
Title: Ethan Frome
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 421 | Pages: 1.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ethan Frome
Michael Collins
Mrs. Mulherin
English 3, Period 8
10/30/00
Ethan Frome Keyhole Essay
In the novel Ethan Frome, silence represents the setting, and the emotions and feelings of the characters. When Edith Wharton wrote Ethan Frome, she wanted the reader to observe silence as a major motif in the story. The silence can be interpreted as part of the theme of the story. It is the silence that creates the sharp tension between the members of the Frome …showed first 75 words of 421 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 421 total…appears to be withholding some “mysterious suspicion or resentment towards Ethan.” (Pg. 30)
Silence is used to show the atmosphere that surrounds the characters throughout the story. The persuasiveness of the winter imagery evokes the bitter loneliness, silence, emptiness, and despair at the end felt by each of the three main characters. It is used to show how lifeless and dull the whole town has become, almost as if its declination followed that of Ethan.
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