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CHARACTERIZATION
SETTING
PLOT
THEME
SYMBOLISM
100
This character is defined as indecisive and vulnerable
Who is Ethan Frome?
100
The season Ethan Frome takes place in
What is Winter?
100
This is the relationship between Mattie and Zeena
What is cousins?
100
This is a common theme that Zeena imposes a lot and she uses her sickness as an excuse to do this to Ethan Frome
What is manipulation?
100
This color is related to desire, love, and passion and is the color Ethan's scar and the pickle dish
What is red?
200
He tells the narrator about Ethan and used to drive the stagecoach before the railroad was built.
Who is Harmon Gow?
200
The story's flashback took place this many years ago
What is 24 years?
200
This person asks Mattie for a cup of coffee, which makes Ethan Frome jealous
Who is Jotham Powell?
200
This season is a major theme in the story, as it is contrasted with the deadliness of the town
What is Winter?
200
This object gave the audience a sense that Ethan Frome was going to kill Zeena
What is the dead cucumber vine?
300
She was left with fifty dollars from a sale of a piano because her father had mishandled all his earned money
Who is Mattie Silver?
300
The beginning of the story takes place here, where Mattie is dancing and Ethan Frome is waiting to take her back home
What is the church?
300
Ethan walks past this place and wonders about the fate of his relationship with Zeena
What is the Graveyard?
300
This theme is a common one throughout the rural life in New England. It is the result of having no education and it is why Ethan Frome is stuck at the farm with Zeena
What is poverty?
300
This object breaks during a dinner between Mattie and Ethan Frome, signifying the increasing separation between Ethan and Zeena
What is the pickle dish?
400
Relatively, this character has high qualifications for a women and lives in a big house with her mother
Who is Mrs. Ruth Hale?
400
In this location, Ethan and Mattie agree to a suicide pact
What is the Hill Ethan and Mattie went sledding on?
400
Ethan asks this individual for fifty dollars
Who is Andrew Hale?
400
This theme displayed the contrast between the buildings and the difference in quality from Ethan Frome's youth to the time the narrator sees them
What is transience or change?
400
This object is associated with love and faith. Also, this object can represent the passion of Mattie and Ethan because many times they talk about how the are not afraid of it, yet they want it to determine their faith.
What is the big elm tree?
500
Examples can include her high-boned face taking a grayish tinge (Chapter 7), her false teeth (Chapter 2), fretful lines of her face, or anything that displays her unappealing appearance. Her dreary appearance corresponds to her cold and controlling behavior, in which she uses articulate wording to manipulate Ethan Frome
Who is Zeena?
500
The name of the city Zeera goes to for medication and the name of the city they live in
What is Springfield and Starkfield
500
This is the time that Dan'l Byrne said he was going to drop off Mattie at the flats
What is noon?
500
This is the struggle Ethan Frome endures throughout the book, and it ultimately causes to attempt suicide
What is Morality vs. Desire?
500
The fear of this caused Ethan to marry Zeena
What is silence?