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Ethan Frome A Timeless Novel The pen in the novel, Ethan Frome is fantastic. The jockey of Ethan Frome is crystal clear. Ethan and Mattie are both believably in love and Ethans desperation grips the reader. Zeena, I think, is the most well described of them all. She is humanity itself--beyond love, beyond fate, and it is she who outlasts them all. Although I think I fell in love with both Mattie and Ethan in this story and was feeling that intense love and hassle of imp close separation in their last moments together, the realist in me loved the culture Zeena, the old witch, the nagging and cunning negative hag, is the whizz who is the rock in the moving stream. Its so 20th century. There is something black about the ending that you have to like. I like the way Zeenas image keeps popping up for Ethan Zeenas empty rocking-chair stood facing him. Mattie rose obediently, and seated herself in it. As her callownessful brown head detached itself against the patch-work cushion t hat habitually framed his wifes penurious countenance, Ethan had a momentary shock. It was almost as if the other face, the face of the superseded woman, had blotted out that of the intruder. And as hes trying to enter into eternity with his beloved . . . But perfectly his wifes face, with twisted monstrous lineaments, thrust itself surrounded by him and his goal, and he made an self-generated movement to brush it aside. Here are some example of the stainless description that I love in this story Through the obscurity which hid their faces their thoughts seemed to dart at each other like serpents shooting venom. Ethan was seized with horror of the scene and shame at his own share in it. It was as senseless and savage as a physical fight between two enemies in the darkness. All the long misery of his baffled past, of his youth of failure, hardship and vain effort, rose up in his soul in bitterness and seemed to take shape before him in the woman who at every turn had barred his way. She had taken everything else from him and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for all the others. For a moment much(prenominal) a flame of hate rose in him that it ran down his branch and clenched his fist against her.