With his claims in mind, as well as Wharton's own professed reasons for writing the novel, analyze and annotate the passages using the strategies you learned about "close reading" earlier in class. The worksheet contains four pre-selected passages from Ethan Frome, each containing evidence for and/or against Bjorkman's claims. To support The Guardian and Observer, order your copy at. Learn more about Wharton's comments about these writers and other thoughts on her creative process, and investigate how Ethan Frome adopts, and challenges, traditional elements from the local color tradition.Įdwin Bjorkman suggested in a 1913 review of Ethan Frome that Ethan would not have even found happiness if he had married Mattie, but that the "curse lies in staying there, in breathing the crushing, choking atmosphere of Starkfieldian sterility." Examine this claim using the following "Close Reading" worksheet by comparing it against the words from Ethan Frome itself. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (Penguin Books Ltd, £6.99). Writers like Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins (Freeman) were often labeled "local color" writers for their detailed attention to specific regional characteristics in their work. Wharton wrote that she was responding to several popular writers of her time who wrote about New England. Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton: with an introduction by Bernard De Voto Book, Online - Google Books Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 New York : C. Edith Wharton: A life in pictures and texts Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton - Free free Hes looked that way ever from he had his smash-up and thats twenty-four years back come next February, Harmon threw out between reminiscent pauses.Wikimedia Commons Edith Wharton's Ethan FromeĮdith Wharton published Ethan Frome in 1911 a full e-text is available below, alongside links that will allow you to learn more about Wharton's life and work.
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