Mattie was a poor young woman and her cousin Zeena help her receive money. Zeena gave Mattie a housekeeping job to help Zeena during her sickness. After Mattie was hired it was like a volcano erupting., everything that could go wrong went wrong. Zeena husband fell in love with her cousin, but Ethan is not related to Mattie. The night the two was alone Mattie broke Zeena pickle dish, and when Zeena found out she said “You`re a bad girl, Mattie Silver, and I always known it. It`s the way your father begun, and I was warned of it when I took you, and I tried to keep my things where you couldn`t get at `em— and now …show more content…
Ethan was very angry at Zeena decision, and he tried to help Mattie find a job. When that happen Mattie wrote Ethan a note on a piece of paper saying “Don`t Trouble, Ethan”(Chapter 8 page 73 paragraph 2). The more time these two spent together, the more they grew on each other. Thats when their lives were effected more and Mattie and Ethan relationship got deeper.
Mattie and Ethan love each other so much, that they would die for each other. Ethan did not want Mattie to go, so the both of them would get on a sled and hit a big elm. So, both of the two would get seriously hurt in the accident. Mattie would be paralyzed and Ethan would injure his leg.
In Ethan Frome the three main characters would be affected by emotion, money, and mistakes. Mattie is impoverished, and her cousin Zeena has to hire her to make some money. Mattie was given a chance to earn a job, and money, but because of her actions she made the biggest mistake of her