Many interpret Wharton as Ethan, her lover as Mattie, and her husband (who apparently had a nervous breakdown or was mentally unstable) as Zeena. Author Tract: Edith Wharton had a very unhappy marriage, alleviated only by her one brief (known) affair.The story itself is less than 150 pages long, but it appears frequently on United States High School required book reading lists. Until Zeena leaves town to see a new doctor. Ethan has fallen in love with Mattie, but doesn't make any attempts to tell her how he feels. Mattie has come to stay with Ethan and his wife Zenobia (or Zeena, as she is mostly referred to) to take care of Zeena in her frail health, as well as do some light housework. The main story takes place in the form of a flashback, around 20 years ago. When circumstance and a huge snowstorm brings them together, he speculates on Ethan's past. The unnamed narrator attempts to ask around the town about Ethan, getting only hints at best from the townsfolk. When an unnamed narrator arrives in the fictional town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, he immediately notices a striking lame man named Ethan Frome, who despite only being 50 and looking like a "ruin of a man", will probably live to be 100. Ethan Frome is a 1911 novel by Edith Wharton.
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