An Analysis Of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome

Edith Newbold Jones, the author of Ethan Frome, married Edward Robbins Wharton on the 29th of April in the year 1885 and became Edith Wharton. Towards the end of their twenty eight years of matrimony, the incompatible couple struggled to avoid separation and a bad reputation. Wharton believes God punishes those which ignore their morals. Accordingly, neither wanted to break their moral values, and consequently, they were too ashamed of what society would say about them to divorce. That given, the novella published in 1911 primarily concentrates on Ethan Frome, as Edith Wharton portrays herself through him. She presents Zenobia Frome as an apathetic person to make the audience sympathize with Ethan “Zenobia’s fault-finding was of the silent