Ethan Frome The Destruction of Life

Ethan Frome The Destruction of Life (The Unforbidden Love Affair) This tragic book tells a story of yet another forbidden pair of lovers, but separates itself from other stories such as these with its vivid imagery. The setting of the book and the characters themselves share the same traits – sullen, silent, somewhat cold and unfriendly. Edith Wharton uses these images to portray each character, each setting, and each situation with an air of the tragedy …

…Trilling, Lionel. “The Morality of Inertia,” Great Moral Dilemmas. New York: Harper & Row, 1956. Reprinted in Howe. Kellogg, Grace. The Two Lives of Edith Wharton: The Woman and Her work New York: Appleton Century Crofts, 1965. Wharton, Edith. A Backward Glance. New York: Appleton Century Crofts, Autobiographical reminiscences, a few of which touch upon the background of Ethan Frome. Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome. Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England. First published Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911