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Lots of Plot
Words, Words, Words
Isn't it ironic? Dontcha think?
Oh, How Theme-y! And Symbolic, Too
Potpourri
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The reason Ethan marries Zeena.
What is his lonliness?
100
Zeena is the perfect example of this vocabulary word, which means full of complaints.
What is querulous?
100
The definition of irony.
What is the contrast between what is expected and what actually happens?
100
A major theme of the novel, reflected in the landscape of a Starkfield winter.
What is isolation?
100
Within a year of their marriage, this happens.
What is Zeena's "sickliness" develops?
200
The number of years between the smash-up and our narrator's stay at Ethan Frome's home.
What is 24?
200
Synonym: ridicule.
What is derision?
200
The reason that the ending of Ethan Frome's story is ironic.
What is Zeena's role change into caregiver for Mattie and Ethan?
200
The plot is driven by this sappy theme.
What is love?
200
To have a skill with words.
What is eloquence?
300
Ethan and the unnamed narrator have these two things in common.
What is their interest in science and engineering and that they both have been to Florida?
300
Ethan is this type of person, meaning uncommunicative.
What is taciturn?
300
One example of irony in Ethan's personality.
What is Ethan's silence, yet the fact that he detests silence in others?
300
Ethan's constant desire to escape is a result of this major theme.
What is being trapped by circumstance?
300
The color that Mattie is often associated with.
What is red?
400
Zeena's unique reaction to her pickle dish breaking.
What is sobs and intense anger?
400
To have shameless boldness.
What is audacity?
400
An ironic mirror image.
What is Mattie's appearance at the end of the novel, which has transformed into a replica (nearly) of Zeena?
400
We can say a lot about this major theme, but the characters usually don't.
What is silence?
400
Mattie's last name.
What is Silver?
500
The reason the narrator spends a night at Ethan Frome's home.
What is a snowstorm?
500
To be bewitched or deeply engrossed.
What is rapt?
500
The reason it is ironic that the two women and Ethan have lived together for the last couple of decades.
What is the fact that Ethan felt he could never be separated from Mattie, but also felt he could not leave Zeena?
500
This symbol represents the dissolution of a marriage, another prominent theme in Ethan Frome.
What is the breaking of the red pickle dish?
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The one person who sympathizes with Ethan.
Who is Mrs. Hale?