Moral Fiction in Ethan Frome

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…human fulfillment. He does so by the kind of analysis of characters and the things they do that brings both writer and reader to understanding, sympathy, and love for human possibility. Because so much present-day fiction fails to be moral in this sense, it undermines our experience of literature and our faith in ourselves. However, Ethan Frome is an exception to these works because it underlines all the important facets in literature and moral fiction.