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Ethan Frome
1911 novella by Edith Wharton
For the film adaptation, see Ethan Frome (film).
Ethan Frome is a 1911 novella by American author Edith Wharton.
It details the story of a man who falls in love with his wife's cousin and the tragedies which result from the ensuing love triangle. The novel has been adapted into a film of the same name.[1]
Plot
An unnamed male narrator is working at a power plant but due to a carpenter's strike, finds himself forced to spend a winter in the nearby small town of (fictional) Starkfield, Massachusetts.
The man who chauffeurs him to work is a limping, quiet man named Ethan Frome, a lifelong resident and local fixture of the community.
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The narrator learns that Frome's limp arose from being injured in an accident. The story then flashes back 24 years to detail Frome's past.
The young Frome is married to a sickly woman named Zeena (Zenobia), who appears older than her age, is unkind to Ethan, and whose life revolves around s
