Ethan Frome - Prologue

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Ethan Frome - Prologue

Characters

Is shown to be reserved and isolated

It is indicated that he was not always like this

Ethan is disfigured

Result of a "smash up"

Creates a sense of mystery, urges the reader to find out what happened

Stiff Face

Creates a distant and unrelatable image

Crippled body

Reflects his psychological state

Ethan is not a bad or nasty man

Shown when he rides the narrator 10 miles to his destination in a snowstorm

Described by the narrator as "The Most Striking" and "The Ruin Of a Man"

Narrator

Creates and unbiased view of Frome that wouldn't be possible with a resident of starkfield

Is used to create a phsychological distance between the reader and Frome

Although the narrator is thought to be male, his name nor gender is revealed

Male

May reflect wharton as a character

Structure

Structural Gap

As the story has already happened the reader is given a sense of finality

Gives hints as to what has happened, what is going to happen and what the reader is going to find out

Wharton starts the novel near the end of the chonological storyline

Imagery

Frome's Farmhouse

Old and dilapidated

Gives sense that nothing can survive the harsh climate unscathed.

Reflects ethan as a whole

"In the diminished dwelling the image of [Frome's] own shrunken body"

Starkfield

Harsh climate

Wharton pays particular attention to show how the climate has effected the residents

Snow and Ice

Shows a harsh climate that is cut off from the community

Motif's to set a desolate atmosphere

The Name gives a bleak image and mood already

Ethan Frome

Ethan's emotional side reflects that of starkfields physical environment

Is described as an incarnation of the climate (see cold, bleak)