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Zeena is Ethan's wife and also his this.
What is cousin?
The traveling engineer accidentally leaves this on Ethan's sled one day.
What is a book on popular science?
’We never got away -- how should you?’ seemed to be written on every _____.
What is "headstone"?
This object is a symbol of Ethan and Zeena's broken marriage.
What is the pickle dish?
This is the name of the town.
What is Starkfield?
This is Zeena's maiden name.
What is Pierce?
Mattie fixes this dessert the night that Zeena is away.
What are doughnuts?
With lowered head he went up in his wife’s wake, and followed her across the _____ of their room.
What is "threshold"?
Wharton's use of a prologue and an epilogue render this novel this type of story.
What is a frame story?
This highly symbolic structure is notably missing from Ethan's property.
What is the "L"?
Ethan Frome is this age in the prologue and the epilogue.
What is 52?
Ethan kisses this, an awkwardly tender moment between him and Mattie.
What is her sewing material?
He had often thought since that it [Ethan and Zeena’s marriage] would not have happened if his mother had died in _____ instead of winter.
The fact that Ethan possesses perfect eyesight but no foresight can be considered this.
What is irony?
This room is described as having "the deadly chill of a vault."
What is the kitchen?
Mattie Silver is from this city.
What is Stamford?
Mattie finds this in Ethan's study and shows it to him right before they attempt suicide.
What is his unfinished letter to Zeena?
He seemed a part of the mute melancholy _____, an incarnation of its frozen woe.
What is "landscape"?
Wharton's use of this type of narration in the chapters allows us to know all of Ethan's thoughts.
What is third person limited omnisicent?
Ethan had a picture of this president hanging up in his study.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Denis Eady and this other minor character own stores.
Who is Mrs. Homan?
Frequent mentioning of these boughs foreshadows the suicide attempt.
What is hemlock?
And the way they are now, I don't see's there's much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the _____.
What is "graveyard"?
Wharton relies heavily on this mode of punctuation, perhaps to indicate Ethan getting lost in his dreams or to indicate that not all of the story may be related.
What is ellipses?
This is where the train station is located.
What is Corbury Flats?