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Ethan From

Today, in the United States, about half of marriages end in divorce, revealing an instability and lack of companionship present in most marriages. Men and women, in nature, starve for love and yearn for a true companion to spend their lives with. Love for a spouse can change like the wind, but in the novel Ethan Frome love changes for the worse over time. Ethan Frome, set in an isolated New England town, epitomizes the depressed and grotesque lives of three young people caught in a triangle of distorted love.
Ethan, the protagonist of the novel, loves his wife Zeena and wants to take care of her throughout her so-called illness. Lovers lost one might call the two of them; they share an internal hatred for one another that keeps their lives so tightly intertwined that no single person could separate them. Not a single person could come between them except the third variable of the love triangle, Zeena's cousin, Mattie Silver. A young vibrant 21-yearold is all it takes to stir up the emotions for Ethan. Liveliness of heart, spirit and mind catch Ethan's attention the second Mattie stepped off the train to come live with the two lovebirds. During a year of hope and hopelessness for Mattie and Ethan, a turn for the worse a tragedy no one could have ever expected has paralyzed the two. The narrator, a stranger to Starkfield, meets Ethan about twenty years after the tragedy only to find him in shambles.
"A winter-bound stranger in an out-of-the way Massachusetts hamlet recognizes in the limping figure of Ethan Frome ‘the ruin of a man', and apprehends some singular misfortunes behind an obvious plight" (). As Lockwood, the narrator hears Ethan's tragic story he interprets feelings and specific details through his own mind. It is possible that the true story of Ethan Frome and his love triangle could have felt the effects of a complete stranger to the story. However distorted and fabricated the story of Ethan Frome's love might turn out the basic structure...